Meet Your Course Instructors
This course is facilitated by a team of instructors, librarians and instructional designers from two SUNY institutions: the University at Albany and Empire State college. We are excited to work with all of you over the next several weeks!
Trudi JacobsonDistinguished LibrarianHead, Information Literacy DepartmentUniversity at AlbanyState University of New York |
Professor Jacobson is one of the originators, with Dr. Thomas Mackey, of metaliteracy. She has been deeply involved with the field of information literacy throughout her professional career, and has published widely in the field, including co-authoring books on metaliteracy and motivating students, and co-editing several volumes on information literacy collaborations between faculty members and librarians. She uses team-based learning for her in-person courses. Outside of academia, she is a fiber arts fanatic, involved with weaving, knitting, spinning, and more.
Dr. Thomas P. MackeyInterim Vice ProvostEmpire State CollegeState University of New York |
Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs at SUNY Empire State College Links to an external site.. His teaching and research interests include metaliteracy, information literacy, blended, open, and online learning, and social media. In 2014 he published a co-authored book with Trudi E. Jacobson entitled: Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners Links to an external site. for Neal-Schuman/ALA Publishing. Tom and Trudi also published four co-edited books about faculty-librarian collaboration, including Teaching Information Literacy Online (2011). His research articles have been published in Communications in Information Literacy , First Monday, College & Research Libraries, Computers & Education , The Journal of General Education, College Teaching, Rhizomes , The Journal of Information Science, and The Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. In 2013, he co-developed the connectivist Metaliteracy MOOC Links to an external site. with Trudi E. Jacobson and colleagues from Empire State College and the University Libraries at the University at Albany. Tom is a member of the Editorial team for Open Praxis Links to an external site. , the peer-reviewed, international, open access, scholarly journal about research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). He is a member of SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2) and participated in the Chancellor’s Online Education Advisory Team that recommended adoption of the Open SUNY Links to an external site. proposal.
Dr. Michele ForteAssistant ProfessorCommunity and Human ServicesEmpire State CollegeState University of New York |
Dr. Michele Forte is Assistant Professor and Mentor at the Center for Distance Learning at SUNY Empire State College. She teaches courses in Community and Human Services and was co-creator of a new online space that supports the success of first year students. She has been involved in the development of SUNY REAL as a member of a Lumina funded project, serving on the faculty team that developed the Global Learning Qualifications Framework. She was also invited to join the Open SUNY student supports team in a SUNY wide reassignment. She was co-PI in the first Metaliteracy IITG, was co-developer of the expanded Metaliteracy Learning Objectives, and co-presented and participated in the first metaliteracy connectivist MOOC. Her teaching background includes 12 years at SUNY Albany in Project Renaissance, an innovative freshman-year experience program. She is a licensed social worker and was a counselor at the Epilepsy Foundation of NENY (Northeastern New York) from 1999 – 2011. Her doctoral degree from the University at Albany is interdisciplinary, with a focus on social welfare and women’s studies. Her range of interests are equally interdisciplinary from investigating the intersections between feminist theory and power dynamics in group settings and creating student-centered and innovative strategies to engage, mentor, and retain first-year adult learners, to drawing connections between social media and processing various stages in the grief/loss cycles.
Allison HosierInformation Literacy LibrarianUniversity at AlbanyState University of New York
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Allison Hosier received her MSIS from the University at Albany in 2011. After spending two years as an Information Literacy Librarian at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, she recently returned to UAlbany to work with the Information Literacy department.
Amy McQuiggeSpecial Project CoordinatorEmpire State College State University of New York
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In the School for Graduate Studies, Amy is responsible for the graduate residencies, community space design and facilitation, prior learning assessment, strategic planning, program proposals, and other projects. Amy also focuses on open education initiatives including digital badging, open textbooks, MOOCs, prior learning assessment, and open access publishing. She has presented nationally on several important trends and movements in higher education and alternative student learning methods. Amy is currently working on a Lumina Foundation grant to assess university-level learning at the college. Amy is working on a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the University at Albany.
Kelsey O'BrienInformation Literacy LibrarianUniversity at AlbanyState University of New York |
Kelsey O'Brien is an Assistant Librarian in the Information Literacy department at the University at Albany, SUNY. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Studies, and has previously worked as a high school library media specialist and a youth services librarian. Her research interests include educational technologies, alternative credentialing and creative publication tools. Her latest project has been developing and writing content for the Metaliteracy Badging System, an Open SUNY initiative which has been expanding its reach as an open educational resource.
Jenna PiteraInstructional DesignerRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Jenna Pitera has multi-faceted expertise that comes from her graduate degree in librarianship with an emphasis on teaching, and the technological emphasis of her professional positions, first as a librarian, and now as an instructional developer. She teaches information literacy courses with a metaliteracy flavor, and is well versed in educational uses of badging. She has also co-taught a course on metaliteracy.
Kathleen StoneDirector of Curriculum and Instructional DesignEmpire State CollegeState University of New York |
Kathleen Stone is Director for Curriculum and Instructional Design in the Center for Distance Learning at SUNY Empire State College. She provides leadership for the Curriculum and Instructional Design (CID) team. The CID team supports faculty in the development, design, and revision of all online courses within the curriculum and supports instructor development and training of over 500 adjunct instructors. In addition to her extensive online instructional design knowledge, Kathleen is one of the original developers of the Open SUNY OER101 course. She has presented at state and national conferences on open educational resources and has been an invited speaker on the topic. Kathleen contributed to the metaliteracy collaborative, focusing on the metaliteracy learning objectives and participating in a live session for the metaliteracy C-MOOC. Her interests include online course completion, accessibility of online courses, social media use in education, and open educational resources.