SOCLProject - User contributions [en]

Complete Timeline

2011-07-04T18:40:24Z

Rnlanders:

The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the first Academic Year (Fall Y1 - Spring Y1), the programming team will develop the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''[[socialPsych]]''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer Y1 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Migration'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>

This can be further broken down by the specific semesters in which each project piece takes place:
<ul>

<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''</li>

<ul>
<li><table>
<tr><td style="width:200px;">'''Fall Y1'''</td><td>Interface Design and Initial Focus Groups</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Spring Y1'''</td><td>Programming and Question Collection</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Summer Y1'''</td><td>Product Testing and Refinement</td></tr>
</table></li>
</ul>

<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''</li>

<ul>
<li><table>
<tr><td style="width:200px;">'''Fall Y2 - Spring Y2'''</td><td>Round 1 Implementation in Target Student Environments</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Summer Y2'''</td><td>Software Refinement Stage 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Fall Y3 - Spring Y3'''</td><td>Round 2 Implementation in Target Student Environments</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Summer Y3'''</td><td>Software Refinement Stage 2</td></tr>
</table></li>
</ul>

<li>'''Phase 3: Final Deployment and Testing'''</li>

<ul>
<li><table>
<tr><td style="width: 200px;">'''Summer Y4'''</td><td>Transition to Local Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Fall Y4- Spring Y4'''</td><td>Final Implementation to Target Student Environments and IT Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>'''Summer Y4'''</td><td>Final Data Collection Effort</td></tr>
</table></li>
</ul>

</ul>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-07-04T18:39:00Z

Rnlanders:

'''PLEASE NOTE: The grant submission deadline has passed, so we are no longer accepting new participants at this stage. However, if the grant is funded, we will be accepting new participants at that time. If you'd like to be notified at this stage, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].'''

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the first Academic Year (Fall - Spring), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (first Summer onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Transition'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person - primary roles will be acquiring student enrollment data and working with local IRB).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-07-04T18:38:02Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements, including an integrated mentoring program, with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-02-06T19:11:48Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

Current Status of this Project: '''A $1.35M grant proposal was submitted to the US National Science Foundation in January 2011. We expect to hear the status of this proposal by August 2011. There are still ways to [[Frequently Asked Questions|join the project]].'''

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements, including an integrated mentoring program, with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
</table>

Frequently Asked Questions

2011-02-06T19:08:54Z

Rnlanders:

If you have any questions, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].

<ul>
<li>What is SOCL?
<blockquote>An online social networking platform designed around the needs of college students. It incorporates gaming elements to increase students motivation and satisfaction while simultaneously creating a large-scale sense of community. See the [[Project History]] for more detail on the rationale behind SOCL.</blockquote></li>
<li>Can my institution/department/course still join the project?
<blockquote>Yes. Institutions that were brought on board before the formal proposal was sent to the National Science Foundation will receive some extra support (e.g. the research team will be flying to deployment sites to provide faculty and student training). However, this is not required to take advantage of the SOCL platform. Individual courses and instructors will be able to sign up independently after the grant is launched to utilize the project in their courses. After the funded period is over, other opportunities to adopt the platform will be provided. If you are interested in any of these possibilities, contact the PI [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu Richard].</blockquote></li>
<li>Isn't this just like Facebook?
<blockquote>SOCL incorporates elements specifically designed around the educational needs of college students. This is in contrast to Facebook, the purpose of which is entirely to establish and maintain social relationships. Students gain access to quiz tools which will help them perform well in their courses. Instructors are given special access and privileges. See [[Proposed Features of SOCL]] for more detail.</blockquote></li>
<li>If we adopt this, won't our faculty all need to include it in their courses to see a benefit?
<blockquote>No. From the data in the pilot study, it appears that regardless of the specific strategy their instructors use to integrate the system into their courses, students 1) talk with each other in their course discussion areas and 2) benefit from the gaming elements of the system. So even if the instructor never logged into [[socialPsych]], students still took the optional quizzes and met socially with their classmates online (to arrange study dates, work on group projects, etc). </blockquote></li>
<li>What expenses will our institution be responsible for?
<blockquote>For the bulk of the life of the grant (2 years), almost all resources will be funded from the grant itself. The hardware to host the system, the software itself, and the technical support resources needed for student questions will all be provided. The [[I_Want_My_Department/College/University_to_Adopt_SOCL|costs to institutions are minimal]], and most only kick in during the final year of the project. These costs include only computer resources to host the software platform and any desired technical support personnel (e.g. a graduate student manager).</blockquote></li>
</ul>

Frequently Asked Questions

2011-02-06T19:08:03Z

Rnlanders:

If you have any questions, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].

<ul>
<li>What is SOCL?
<blockquote>An online social networking platform designed around the needs of college students. It incorporates gaming elements to increase students motivation and satisfaction while simultaneously creating a large-scale sense of community. See the [[Project History]] for more detail on the rationale behind SOCL.</blockquote></li>
<li>Can my institution/department/course still join the project?
<blockquote>Yes. Institutions that were brought on board before the formal proposal was sent to the National Science Foundation will receive some extra support (e.g. the research team will be flying to deployment sites to provide faculty and student training). However, this is not required to take advantage of the SOCL platform. Individual courses and instructors will be able to sign up independently after the grant is launched to utilize the project in their courses. After the funded period is over, other opportunities to adopt the platform will be provided. If you are interested in any of these possibilities, contact the PI [rnlanders@odu.edu Richard].</blockquote></li>
<li>Isn't this just like Facebook?
<blockquote>SOCL incorporates elements specifically designed around the educational needs of college students. This is in contrast to Facebook, the purpose of which is entirely to establish and maintain social relationships. Students gain access to quiz tools which will help them perform well in their courses. Instructors are given special access and privileges. See [[Proposed Features of SOCL]] for more detail.</blockquote></li>
<li>If we adopt this, won't our faculty all need to include it in their courses to see a benefit?
<blockquote>No. From the data in the pilot study, it appears that regardless of the specific strategy their instructors use to integrate the system into their courses, students 1) talk with each other in their course discussion areas and 2) benefit from the gaming elements of the system. So even if the instructor never logged into [[socialPsych]], students still took the optional quizzes and met socially with their classmates online (to arrange study dates, work on group projects, etc). </blockquote></li>
<li>What expenses will our institution be responsible for?
<blockquote>For the bulk of the life of the grant (2 years), almost all resources will be funded from the grant itself. The hardware to host the system, the software itself, and the technical support resources needed for student questions will all be provided. The [[I_Want_My_Department/College/University_to_Adopt_SOCL|costs to institutions are minimal]], and most only kick in during the final year of the project. These costs include only computer resources to host the software platform and any desired technical support personnel (e.g. a graduate student manager).</blockquote></li>
</ul>

Frequently Asked Questions

2011-02-06T19:03:34Z

Rnlanders:

If you have any questions, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].

<ul>
<li>What is SOCL?
<blockquote>An online social networking platform designed around the needs of college students. It incorporates gaming elements to increase students motivation and satisfaction while simultaneously creating a large-scale sense of community. See the [[Project History]] for more detail on the rationale behind SOCL.</blockquote></li>
<li>Isn't this just like Facebook?
<blockquote>SOCL incorporates elements specifically designed around the educational needs of college students. This is in contrast to Facebook, the purpose of which is entirely to establish and maintain social relationships. Students gain access to quiz tools which will help them perform well in their courses. Instructors are given special access and privileges. See [[Proposed Features of SOCL]] for more detail.</blockquote></li>
<li>If we adopt this, won't our faculty all need to include it in their courses to see a benefit?
<blockquote>No. From the data in the pilot study, it appears that regardless of the specific strategy their instructors use to integrate the system into their courses, students 1) talk with each other in their course discussion areas and 2) benefit from the gaming elements of the system. So even if the instructor never logged into [[socialPsych]], students still took the optional quizzes and met socially with their classmates online (to arrange study dates, work on group projects, etc). </blockquote></li>
<li>What expenses will our institution be responsible for?
<blockquote>For the bulk of the life of the grant (2 years), almost all resources will be funded from the grant itself. The hardware to host the system, the software itself, and the technical support resources needed for student questions will all be provided. The [[I_Want_My_Department/College/University_to_Adopt_SOCL|costs to institutions are minimal]], and most only kick in during the final year of the project. These costs include only computer resources to host the software platform and any desired technical support personnel (e.g. a graduate student manager).</blockquote></li>
</ul>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-02-06T19:01:54Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

'''PLEASE NOTE: The grant submission deadline has passed, so we are no longer accepting new participants at this stage. However, if the grant is funded, we will be accepting new participants at that time. If you'd like to be notified at this stage, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].'''

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Transition'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person - primary roles will be acquiring student enrollment data and working with local IRB).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-02-06T19:01:36Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

'''PLEASE NOTE: The grant submission deadline has passed, so we are no longer accepting new participants at this stage. However, if the grant is funded, we will be accepting new participants at that time. If you'd like to be notified at this stage, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].'''

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Transition'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person - primary roles will be acquiring student enrollment data and working with local IRB).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

Partnering Institutions

2011-02-06T18:57:38Z

Rnlanders: /* Departments and Colleges */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Departments and Colleges ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>90 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''' [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private 4-year HBCU</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>School of Communications</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>110 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>600 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>10 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>150 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>100 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>3000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2<td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>100</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>40</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Philip Burke, Ph.D. [pburke@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2011-02-06T18:56:39Z

Rnlanders: /* Departments and Colleges within Universities */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Departments and Colleges ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>90 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''' [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private 4-year HBCU</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>School of Communications</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>110 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>600 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>10 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>150 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>100 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>3000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2<td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>100</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>40</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Philip Burke, Ph.D. [pburke@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Richard N. Landers

2011-01-20T18:52:12Z

Rnlanders:

[[File:RLandersImage.jpg|right]]'''Richard N. Landers''', Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology[http://sci.odu.edu/psychology/io/] at Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities[http://www.psych.umn.edu].

Industrial/Organizational psychologists study psychology as it can be applied to the workplace, as a means to affect and/or predict employee behavior[http://siop.org].

Richard's focus is the application of technology to the selection and training/education of new employees. He currently runs the [[Technology iN Training Laboratory]] (TNTLab), where he studies various technologies for selection and training, including the use of Moodle, Second Life[http://www.secondlife.com] and Facebook[http://facebook.com]. Most of his research examines the learning of US college students: our next generation of employees.

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T18:50:26Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Staff */

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

Current Status of this Project: '''A $1.35M grant proposal was submitted to the US National Science Foundation in January 2011. We expect to hear the status of this proposal by August 2011.'''

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements, including an integrated mentoring program, with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T18:48:23Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

Current Status of this Project: '''A $1.35M grant proposal was submitted to the US National Science Foundation in January 2011. We expect to hear the status of this proposal by August 2011.'''

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements, including an integrated mentoring program, with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T18:46:47Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

Current Status of this Project: '''A $1.35M grant proposal was submitted to the US National Science Foundation in January 2011. We expect to hear the status of this proposal by August 2011.'''

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T18:46:32Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

Current Status of this Project: '''A $1.35M grant proposal submitted to the US National Science Foundation in January 2011. We expect to hear the status of this proposal by August 2011.'''

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T18:45:12Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to take advantage of funding from the US '''National Science Foundation''' to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students. Firmly grounded in psychological and educational theory, this platform will increase student learning while establishing a sense of support and community for student participants, ultimately improving student persistence, which should lead to improve student retention.

'''SOCL''' incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

Frequently Asked Questions

2011-01-20T17:08:28Z

Rnlanders:

If you have any questions, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].

<ul>
<li>What is SOCL?
<blockquote>An online social networking platform designed around the needs of college students. It incorporates gaming elements to increase students motivation and satisfaction while simultaneously creating a large-scale sense of community. See the [[Project History]] for more detail on the rationale behind SOCL.</blockquote></li>
<li>Isn't this just like Facebook?
<blockquote>SOCL incorporates elements specifically designed around the educational needs of college students. This is in contrast to Facebook, the purpose of which is entirely to establish and maintain social relationships. Students gain access to quiz tools which will help them perform well in their courses. Instructors are given special access and privileges. See [[Proposed Features of SOCL]] for more detail.</blockquote></li>
<li>If we adopt this, won't our faculty all need to include it in their courses to see a benefit?
<blockquote>No. From the data in the pilot study, it appears that regardless of the specific strategy their instructors use to integrate the system into their courses, students 1) talk with each other in their course discussion areas and 2) benefit from the gaming elements of the system. So even if the instructor never logged into [[socialPsych]], students still took the optional quizzes and met socially with their classmates online (to arrange study dates, work on group projects, etc). </blockquote></li>
<li>What expenses will our institution be responsible for?
<blockquote>For the life of the grant (3 to 5 years, depending on the final funding source), almost all resources will be funded from the grant itself. The hardware to host the system, the software itself, and the technical support resources needed for student questions will all be provided. The [[I_Want_My_Department/College/University_to_Adopt_SOCL|costs to institutions are minimal]], and most only kick in during the final phase of the project (several years later). These costs include only computer resources to host the software platform and any desired technical support personnel (e.g. a graduate student manager).</blockquote></li>
</ul>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-01-20T17:05:42Z

Rnlanders:

'''PLEASE NOTE: The grant submission deadline has passed, so we are no longer accepting new participants at this stage. However, if the grant is funded, we will be accepting new participants at that time. If you'd like to be notified at this stage, please contact the PI [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu].'''

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Transition'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person - primary roles will be acquiring student enrollment data and working with local IRB).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li>At the university level, the letter writer will typically be a dean of academic affairs or head of a unit responsible for information or instructional technology.</li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

Partnering Institutions

2011-01-20T17:03:10Z

Rnlanders:

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Departments and Colleges within Universities ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>90 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''' [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private 4-year HBCU</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>School of Communications</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>110 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>600 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>10 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>150 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>100 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>3000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2<td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>100</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>40</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Philip Burke, Ph.D. [pburke@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2011-01-20T16:55:32Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Staff */

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to use US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students.

SOCL incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2011-01-06T05:27:30Z

Rnlanders: /* Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4500 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2011-01-06T05:05:23Z

Rnlanders: /* Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Pilot Data from socialPsych

2011-01-06T02:21:04Z

Rnlanders: /* General Information on the Pilot */

'''Note that this text is also contained in the original call for participants.[http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/]'''

Two videos are available explaining functionality. The introductory video is a general introduction to the software, while the tutorial was used to help students using socialPsych understand its functions.
__TOC__
== General Information on the Pilot ==
In Summer 2010, I received a seed grant (thanks ODU!) to investigate the value of social media in online education. So for that project, I wrote (by myself) an online social network centered around undergraduate education. This online social network was deployed to 20 courses in the Summer 2010 semester, and was thus available to roughly 600 students. Of those 600 students, about 400 set up profiles and actually tried to use it, some of which were required to do so for course participation, but many of which were not.

Of those 400 students, uptake of our online social network for Psychology (which we named socialPsych) was tremendous. Over just a few months, about 500 status updates were made, alongside roughly 4,500 posts in course discussion areas.

I implemented two experimental features to this social network that I am quite proud of and am to my knowledge the first to use such technologies.

First, I created a '''Certification Center'''. In this area, students could take quizzes on course material from any course. Quizzes were always 10 questions and drawn randomly from a much larger database of questions specific to each course. For example, a student enrolled in social psychology could complete quizzes in social psych, quantitative methods, etc – any course currently being offered in the department. But students were only allowed to take a quiz in any particular subject area once every 4 days. We took advantage of many principles of casual gaming (sometimes called the gamefication movement) to create a reward system for completing these quizzes. Several levels of “mastery” were created, with increasingly difficult bars to reach in order to achieve them. But when a student achieved a new rank (which they could never lose), a badge would appear next to their name in class discussion areas to provide a social reward for doing well. For example, if the aforementioned student completed the social psychology quiz enough times to reach Mastery Level 3, a little blue ribbon would appear next to their name when they chatted in that classroom. This system was ridiculously well-received. Across those 400 students, 113 (28%!) '''willingly chose to take optional multiple choice quizzes'''. If you’re an educator like I am, you are probably shaking your head in disbelief right now – 28% of students willingly completed optional multiple choice quizzes that would never have an effect on their grades. That’s absolutely amazing to me every time I think about it. Especially fantastic is that simply spending time completing the quizzes exposes them to course material more than they otherwise would have been exposed – meaning they were more likely to learn something!

Second, I created a '''Mentoring System'''. After achieving ranks, students could flag themselves as available to be mentors to students who wanted help. 16 students (about 4%) signed up to be mentors and 19 students (about 5%) signed up to be mentees. And although those numbers seem relatively small, remember that these are students struggling who I would hypothesize would be unlikely to seek out help from their instructors – or possibly even their classmates, in person. What a fantastic resource such a system would make – especially one that vets expertise automatically through the certification system!

I think this quote from one of our students on the post-test exam is what give me the most hope:

<blockquote>I beleive [sic] the best thing about social psych was the interaction you have with your classmates. ODU is a big university and everyone is always on the go it was nice to have a moment to ask people questions and hear encouraging words from other people.</blockquote>

Totally unsolicited positive virtual interactions between students. Just what I was hoping for! We even found a positive correlation between GPA and online social network usage. And consider this one on community building:

<blockquote>i [sic] am a commuter student and only attend classes. Normally, I don’t socialize with other students. Social Psych Net [sic] provided the opportunity to speak with other students during the course, which I do not typically do. It also provided an area for students to ask each other questions. I think this site should continue.</blockquote>

Data from socialPsych is being used to inform the [[Proposed Features of SOCL|specific design decisions in the SOCL Project]].

== Introductory Video ==
{{#ev:vimeo|11500513}}

== Tutorial Video ==
{{#ev:vimeo|11506353}}

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-01-04T19:20:05Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Migration'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person - primary roles will be acquiring student enrollment data and working with local IRB).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li>At the university level, the letter writer will typically be a dean of academic affairs or head of a unit responsible for information or instructional technology.</li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2011-01-04T19:16:01Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Migration'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>The NSF title of the project:<br />DIP: Using Gaming Principles with Social Networking Technology to Establish Undergraduate Online Learning Communities </li>
<li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li>At the university level, the letter writer will typically be a dean of academic affairs or head of a unit responsible for information or instructional technology.</li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

Partnering Institutions

2011-01-04T19:12:17Z

Rnlanders: /* Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1000 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2011-01-04T19:11:54Z

Rnlanders: /* Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>1000</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

File:Tbrothen.jpg

2010-12-26T03:01:31Z

Rnlanders:

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2010-12-26T02:57:13Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Staff */

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to use US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students.

SOCL incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:drudmann.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (SSU Coordinator)<br>'''Darrell Rudmann''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Shawnee State University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br>Old Dominion University</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:tbrothen.jpg]]</td><td>Consultant (Independent Program Evaluator)<br>'''Tom Brothen''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology<br> University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</td></tr>
</table>

Richard N. Landers

2010-12-26T01:57:49Z

Rnlanders:

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2010-12-26T01:57:12Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Staff */

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to use US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students.

SOCL incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Gianluca De Leo''', Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Amy Adcock''', Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>'''Debbie Major''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:drudmann.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (SSU Coordinator)<br>'''Darrell Rudmann''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>'''Jim Bliss''', Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2010-12-25T22:20:31Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Staff */

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to use US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students.

SOCL incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator<br>[[Richard N. Landers]], Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>Gianluca De Leo, Ph.D.<br>Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>Amy Adcock, Ph.D.<br>STEM Education and Professional Studies</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI<br>Debbie Major, Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:drudmann.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (SSU Coordinator)<br>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator)<br>Jim Bliss, Ph.D.<br>Psychology</td></tr>
</table>

File:Jbliss.jpg

2010-12-25T19:16:56Z

Rnlanders:

File:Drudmann.jpg

2010-12-25T19:16:42Z

Rnlanders:

File:Dmajor.jpg

2010-12-25T19:16:25Z

Rnlanders:

File:Aadcock.jpg

2010-12-25T19:16:07Z

Rnlanders:

File:Gdeleo.jpg

2010-12-25T19:15:34Z

Rnlanders:

File:Rlanders.jpg

2010-12-25T19:15:09Z

Rnlanders:

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2010-12-25T19:14:43Z

Rnlanders:

The goal of the '''SOCL Project''' is to use US federal funding to create an open source, online social networking platform customized to the needs of faculty and students.

SOCL incorporates community-building elements with social gaming to increase student motivation and success. A pilot study on 600 students was conducted during the Summer 2010 semester and was a great success. See the [[Project History]] for the rationale for this project and the [[Pilot Data from socialPsych|Pilot Data]] to learn more.

The Principle Investigator of the '''SOCL Project''' is [[Richard N. Landers]] (PI of [[TNTLab]], part of Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]).

== Previous Coverage ==
<table>
<tr><td>An ODU press release:</td><td>http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=25214</td></tr>
<tr><td>A ProfHacker article by Jason Jones in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'':</td><td>http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/gamifying-homewor/28407</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's original blog announcement:</td><td>http://neoacademic.com/2010/10/14/call-for-participants-in-nsf-proposal-to-integrate-social-media-in-undergrad-education/</td></tr>
<tr><td>The PI's twitter account:</td><td>http://twitter.com/rnlanders</td></tr>
</table>

== Project Details ==
You can learn more about this project by examining each of the following pages:

<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[Project History]]</td><td>[[Pilot Data from socialPsych]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Proposed Features of SOCL]]</td><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Certification System]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Certification and Mentoring Systems|Mentoring System]]</td><td>[[Complete Timeline]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Technical Details]]</td><td>[[Partnering Institutions]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL|How to Join the SOCL Project]]</td><td> </td></tr>
</table>

== Project Staff ==
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>[[File:rlanders.jpg]]</td><td>Primary Investigator [[Richard N. Landers]], Ph.D.</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:gdeleo.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI Gianluca De Leo, Ph.D.</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:aadcock.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI Amy Adcock, Ph.D.</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:dmajor.jpg]]</td><td>Co-PI Debbie Major, Ph.D.</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:drudmann.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (SSU Coordinator) Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D.</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[File:jbliss.jpg]]</td><td>Senior Personnel (HCI Study Coordinator) Jim Bliss, Ph.D.</td></tr>
</table>

The SOCL Project: Social networking for Online Community-based Learning

2010-12-25T17:58:50Z

Rnlanders: /* Project Details */

Project Staff

2010-12-25T17:53:55Z

Rnlanders: /* Major Personnel and Consultants */

__TOC__

Please note that decisions regarding status as Co-PIs are not finalized and will depend on the ultimate funding source and limitations it imposes.

==Principle Investigator==
[[File:RLandersImage.jpg|right|50px]]'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology[http://sci.odu.edu/psychology/io/] at Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities[http://www.psych.umn.edu].

==Co-PIs==
[[Gianluca De Leo]], Ph.D. will be heading up the programming team.

[[Amy Adcock]], Ph.D. will be examining the benefits of the program from a pedagogical/instructional design perspective.

[[Debbie Major]], Ph.D. will be investigating the benefits of the program to undergraduate women in STEM fields.

[[Rosa Mikeal Martey]], Ph.D. will be responsible for the gaming aspects of the project.

==Major Personnel and Consultants==
[[Jim Bliss]], Ph.D., will conduct usability studies on the software platform.

[[Darrell Rudmann]], Ph.D. will be responsible for institution-level deployment at Shawnee State University.

Partnering Institutions

2010-12-17T22:49:31Z

Rnlanders: /* Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2010-12-17T22:46:36Z

Rnlanders:

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Ursinus College''' [Collegeville, Pennsylvania]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private liberal arts college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Modern Languages, English, Religion/Philosophy, Art History, and History</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>170 (10% of the Ursinus student body)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Walter Greason, Ph.D. [wgreason@ursinus.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

2010-12-17T22:44:45Z

Rnlanders: /* Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process. Please note that there are high schools on this list, but this does not guarantee high schools will be included in the grant proposal, depending upon the final funding target.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>33</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>250-300</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Ursinus College''' [Collegeville, Pennsylvania]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private liberal arts college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Modern Languages, English, Religion/Philosophy, Art History, and History</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>170 (10% of the Ursinus student body)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Walter Greason, Ph.D. [wgreason@ursinus.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2010-12-17T05:00:19Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Migration'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen (i.e. please describe the level at which you will be implementing it).</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li>At the university level, the letter writer will typically be a dean of academic affairs or head of a unit responsible for information or instructional technology.</li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

I Want My Department/College/University to Adopt SOCL

2010-12-17T04:58:35Z

Rnlanders: /* Institutional Requirements */

__TOC__
Thank you for wanting to join the SOCL Project! This document details general information you might need before making a decision. Once you have decided to join the project, please contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] as soon as possible.
== Timeline ==
The overall timeline of this project is as follows:
<ul>
<li>'''Phase 1: Development'''. For the 2011 Academic Year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012), the programming team will work on creating the SOCL software. This is based upon the '''socialPsych''' platform that served as the pilot data for this project.</li>
<li>'''Phase 2: Active Student Participation'''. For the life of the grant (Summer 2012 onward), the grant will support almost all costs associated with SOCL including: hosting the software, providing a technical support chat line and e-mail address, and actively updating the software if bugs are encountered.</li>
<li>'''Phase 3: Migration'''. After the life of the grant has ended, institutions are expected to migrate the SOCL platform to their own locally hosted servers. Because the software is free, this is primarily an IT infrastructure cost plus any technical support role required. Many institutions will be able to continue use of the software for near-zero cost.</li>
</ul>
For a more detailed timeline, see the [[Complete Timeline]].

== Levels of Involvement ==
Involvement is available at multiple levels:
<ol>
<li>'''Entire institutions.''' This is the most powerful deployment of SOCL. With an entire institution on board, your students are all connected with each other, maximizing the sense of community this software is designed to bring.</li>
<li>'''Department and colleges within large institutions.''' This is the likely the most common deployment of SOCL and is the minimum recommended deployment for SOCL. It reduces the administrative burden associated with larger deployments (a single person within the department could administer the system with only a few hours per week) while still creating the large-scale sense of community that many students desire.</li>
<li>'''Course clusters or individual courses.''' If it is not possible to get buy-in from your institution, you can still adopt SOCL for your own course or courses. If you have multiple courses, they can even be linked together to create at least some of the sense of community created with larger deployments.</li>
</ol>

== Institutional Requirements ==
Letters are due at the end of the Fall 2010 semester. Please note that you should contact [[Richard N. Landers|Richard]] at [mailto:rnlanders@odu.edu rnlanders@odu.edu] before acquiring any of the following:
<ol>
<li>'''General letter of support at the appropriate level.''' For any institution (be it entire institution, department, or college) that wants to be involved, a letter will need to be drafted specifying:
<ol><li>That an effort will be made at the appropriate scope to implement SOCL at the level chosen.</li>
<li>That the institution will see the project through to Phase 3 if the project reaches desired outcomes.</li>
<li>That a local administrator to take ownership of the project at the site has agreed to that role (and the name of that person).</li>
<li>That course grades and student evaluation data will be made available to the project team in order to evaluate the success of the grant in achieving its goals.</li></ol>
An appropriate author must draft this letter:<ul><li>At the university level, the letter writer will typically be a dean of academic affairs or head of a unit responsible for information or instructional technology.</li><li>At the departmental level, this will typically be the department chair/head.</li><li>At the course level, this will be the instructor of the course(s).</li></ul>
This letter can be addressed to either the PI (Dr. Richard Landers) or to the NSF review committee:
<ul><li>CyberLearning: Transforming Education (NSF Solicitation 10-620)
<br />National Science Foundation
<br />4201 Wilson Blvd.
<br />Arlington, VA 22230</li></ul>
</li>
<li>'''Letter of support from the IT function.''' Deployments at the '''entire institution''' level require support from information/instructional technology in order to maximize the value of the system. For example, student records could be automatically imported and updated to keep class memberships in SOCL accurate. Otherwise, the local institutional administrator will need to maintain these records. Smaller deployments may wish to take advantage of this degree of integration as well.</li>
<li>'''Supplying of other information.''' Other information may be required for the grant proposal. The point of contact at the institution must be a part of the SOCL Listserv to receive information on project updates and specific requests (e.g. updated number of students that will gain access to SOCL, course structure, etc.).</li>
</ol>

Partnering Institutions

2010-12-16T20:03:35Z

Rnlanders: /* Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process. Please note that there are high schools on this list, but this does not guarantee high schools will be included in the grant proposal, depending upon the final funding target.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 4700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Ursinus College''' [Collegeville, Pennsylvania]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private liberal arts college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Modern Languages, English, Religion/Philosophy, Art History, and History</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>170 (10% of the Ursinus student body)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Walter Greason, Ph.D. [wgreason@ursinus.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Partnering Institutions

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This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process. Please note that there are high schools on this list, but this does not guarantee high schools will be included in the grant proposal, depending upon the final funding target.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>6000+</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Ursinus College''' [Collegeville, Pennsylvania]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private liberal arts college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Modern Languages, English, Religion/Philosophy, Art History, and History</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>170 (10% of the Ursinus student body)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Walter Greason, Ph.D. [wgreason@ursinus.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

Project Staff

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__TOC__

Please note that decisions regarding status as Co-PIs are not finalized and will depend on the ultimate funding source and limitations it imposes.

==Principle Investigator==
[[File:RLandersImage.jpg|right|50px]]'''[[Richard N. Landers]]''', Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology[http://sci.odu.edu/psychology/io/] at Old Dominion University[http://www.odu.edu]. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities[http://www.psych.umn.edu].

==Co-PIs==
[[Gianluca De Leo]], Ph.D. will be heading up the programming team.

[[Amy Adcock]], Ph.D. will be examining the benefits of the program from a pedagogical/instructional design perspective.

[[Debbie Major]], Ph.D. will be investigating the benefits of the program to undergraduate women in STEM fields.

[[Rosa Mikeal Martey]], Ph.D. will be responsible for the gaming aspects of the project.

==Major Personnel and Consultants==
[[Jim Bliss]], Ph.D., will conduct usability studies on the software platform.

[[Matt Borneman]] will lend his measurement and quantitative methods expertise to the project.

[[Carey Sargent]], Ph.D., will lend expertise in qualitative data analysis.

[[Darrell Rudmann]], Ph.D. will be responsible for institution-level deployment at Shawnee State University.

Partnering Institutions

2010-12-15T17:32:16Z

Rnlanders: /* Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) */

This page is used both to list potentially participating institutions and to track their progress in the grant proposal process. Please note that there are high schools on this list, but this does not guarantee high schools will be included in the grant proposal, depending upon the final funding target.

== Tentatively Involved, but Scope Unclear ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Howard University''', English [Washington, DC]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Ingrid Sturgis, Ph.D. [isturgis@howard.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Details:'''</td><td>'''Suffolk University''', Sawyer School of Business [Boston, Massachusetts]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Elaine Garofoli [egarofoli@suffolk.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Universities and Colleges (complete institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Shawnee State University''' [Portsmouth, Ohio]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Rural public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Departments:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>6000+</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Academic Affairs,<br /> President's Office, or other appropriate source:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>IT Function Support Letter:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Darrell Rudmann, Ph.D. [drudmann@shawnee.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Departments and Colleges within Universities (sections of larger institutions) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Eastern New Mexico University''' [Portales, New Mexico]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Health and Human Services</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Suzanne Swift, Ph.D. [suzanne.swift@enmu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Minnesota State University''' [Mankato, Minnesota]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>40 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Roughly 1700 per semester</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Kristie Campana, Ph.D. [kristie.campana@mnsu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br /><table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Communication Disorders and Special Education (CDSE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Corrin Richels, Ph.D. [crichels@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table><br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Old Dominion University''' [Norfolk, Virginia]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. [rnlanders@odu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Southern Illinois University''' [Carbondale, Illinois]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Psychology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Matthew Borneman, Ph.D. [mborneman@siu.edu]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Ursinus College''' [Collegeville, Pennsylvania]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Private liberal arts college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Modern Languages, English, Religion/Philosophy, Art History, and History</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>170 (10% of the Ursinus student body)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Department Chair:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Walter Greason, Ph.D. [wgreason@ursinus.edu]</td></tr>
</table>

== Course Clusters (a group of related classes) ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Northeast Lakeview College''' [Universal City, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>2-year community college</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cluster Description:</td><td>Intro Sociology courses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Thomas Brown, Ph.D. [drthomasfbrown@hotmail.com]</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td>'''Plymouth High School''' [Plymouth, Indiana]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public high school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Foreign Language</td></tr>
<tr><td>Number of Classes/Sections:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Cluster Supervisor:</td><td>'''Not Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>Constancia Wendt [cwendt@plymouth.k12.in.us]</td></tr>
</table>

== Individual Courses ==
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>'''Institution Name:'''</td><td><strong>University of Texas Medical School</strong> [Houston, Texas]</td></tr>
<tr><td>Institution Type:</td><td>Public 4-year university, Medical school</td></tr>
<tr><td>Department Name:</td><td>Neurobiology and Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Course Title:</td><td>Gross Anatomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Approximate Number of Students:</td><td>230</td></tr>
<tr><td>Official Support Letter from Course Instructor:</td><td>'''Received'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>Point of Contact:</td><td>David Marshak, Ph.D. [David.W.Marshak@uth.tmc.edu]</td></tr>
</table>