Dr. Patrice Torcivia Prusko
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
3K followers
500 connections
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
3K followers
500 connections
About
As an accomplished education leader and innovator, I have spent my career transforming…
Articles by Dr. Patrice
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The Synergy of Human and AI: Shaping a Harmonious Future in Education
The Synergy of Human and AI: Shaping a Harmonious Future in Education
By Dr. Patrice Torcivia Prusko
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How to prevent poverty of the imagination
How to prevent poverty of the imagination
By Dr. Patrice Torcivia Prusko
Activity
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The full Affordable #DegreesAtScale Symposium schedule is LIVE! This year's attendees will participate in discussions on maintaining innovation, the…
The full Affordable #DegreesAtScale Symposium schedule is LIVE! This year's attendees will participate in discussions on maintaining innovation, the…
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Ray Schroeder - Thank you so much for the opportunity to learn and participate in the great conversation with Louis Stewart from NVIDIA, and for the…
Ray Schroeder - Thank you so much for the opportunity to learn and participate in the great conversation with Louis Stewart from NVIDIA, and for the…
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Exciting news! Starting today, you can access OpenStax, Rice University's high-quality, open-source textbooks directly through Google Gemini . Just…
Exciting news! Starting today, you can access OpenStax, Rice University's high-quality, open-source textbooks directly through Google Gemini . Just…
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Experience
Education
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University at Albany
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Dissertation titled: Five Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Majors: A Portraiture of their Lived Experiences
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Executive Board Member, Past President
WEST - Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology
- Present 5 years 10 months
Science and Technology
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Tech Savvy Curriculum Coordinator
AAUW
- 2 years 1 month
Children
Ensures quality of curriculum presented at Tech Savvy.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Review all curriculum proposed by presenters for rigor and appropriate content
Coordinate with AAUW national staff to ensure curriculum is diverse and meets
standards of Tech Savvy model
Work with volunteer coordinator to recruit qualified and appropriate presenters
Ensure that the curriculum flows and cumulatively achieves the desired learning
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Treasurer
Cascadilla Boat Club
- 3 years
Children
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Publications
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Suggestions for Successful Synchronous Sessions
SUNY Empire State College, All About Mentoring, Issue 48, Winter 2016, 32-34
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Building Community and Improving Learning through Synchronous Sessions
Distance Teaching & Learning Conference
Too often webinars or virtual meetings fail to engage learners and deliver quality instruction. It's not enough to simply have everyone log in at the same time and passively listen to a lecture. This workshop provided guidelines, strategies, and options to create interactive and engaging synchronous sessions to achieve desired learning outcomes.
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Technology to foster cross-cultural student collaboration.
SUNY Empire State College All About Mentoring,45, 30-38.
Assessment of collaboration tools used and their impact on meaningful student experience. Instructors reported that virtual meetings increased student engagement, contributed to student learning , helped instructors feel more connected to students and added to overall satisfaction with course.
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The value of a virtual term abroad
SUNY Empire State College All About Mentoring, 44, 94-99
Only a small percentage of students participate in study abroad programs and many groups are underrepresented. We believe even virtual interaction between students in different countries contributes to some of the objectives of a study abroad experience. Results support the impact even a short term collaboration can have on value creation. We used the work of Etienne Wenger, et.al in promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework (2011) to assess the…
Only a small percentage of students participate in study abroad programs and many groups are underrepresented. We believe even virtual interaction between students in different countries contributes to some of the objectives of a study abroad experience. Results support the impact even a short term collaboration can have on value creation. We used the work of Etienne Wenger, et.al in promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework (2011) to assess the value created by a virtual international experience.
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Synchronous Activities for an Online Synchronous Class
Online Classrooms, Magna
Synchronous meetings can be a valuable addition to otherwise asynchronous online courses. They build community and combat a student’s sense of isolation. There are a number of ways to use synchronous sessions to add value to a course.
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Courses
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Advancing Learning Through Evidenced Based STEM Teaching (MOOC)
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Cornell Inclusive Teaching Institute, workshop
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Cornell University: Developing Facilitation Skills, workshop
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Design Kit: Facilitator's Guide, Acumen, certificate
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Franklin Covey: Project Management Essentials, certificate
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Franklin Covey: The Speed of Trust, certificate
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HERS Leadership Institute
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MOR Associates: Cornell Emerging Leaders program
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The Art of Innovation
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The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL)
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Projects
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Use synchronous sessions to build community and connect globally.
Prusko, P. T. & Calix, L. P. (2016). Use synchronous sessions to build community and connect globally. In K. Thompson and B. Chen (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning. Retrieved September 15, 2016 from https://topr.online.ucf.edu/index.php?title=Use_synchronous_sessions_to_build_community_and_connect_globally&oldid=5106
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Service Design Thinking
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In order to best support the faculty and student experience in teaching and learning with technology, Cornell Academic Technologies is interested in understanding the teaching and learning challenges of our Cornell faculty and students. The goal of the study is to identify potential changes to our current approach so we can better align with the changing educational landscape.
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OLC Innovate Solution Design Summit Committee
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A space in the #OLCInnovate schedule to offer a space for design thinkers, tinkers, and leaders to assemble in order to propose and solve challenges we encounter in learning (in K-12, higher education, and industry-L & D), such as:
Personalized and Adaptive Learning
Professional Learning and Development
Impact of Open Learning
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Co-Leader Training for Faculty and Staff Cornell Online Learning Community (COLC)
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Using the design thinking process to transform how users at Cornell experience online training. After brainstorming with a core group, we identified two major challenges:
How might we identify quality training - what makes training good or bad from point of view of experiences people have had?
How might we improve communication and marketing (central info sharing on training, resources, skills, info, tools, etc)?Other creators -
SUNY Tools of Engagement Project (TOEP) Fellow
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The TOEP community provides a safe and supportive environment to work alongside peers and to reflect on how these emerging technology tools may impact teaching and learning. Fellow responsibilities include:
Develop market plan to communicate out to campus to promote TOEP.
Host informational sessions to recruit faculty & staff participants from campus
Stay current with Web 2.0 technologies taught through TOEP
Facilitate within and across-campus mentoring
Support faculty and…The TOEP community provides a safe and supportive environment to work alongside peers and to reflect on how these emerging technology tools may impact teaching and learning. Fellow responsibilities include:
Develop market plan to communicate out to campus to promote TOEP.
Host informational sessions to recruit faculty & staff participants from campus
Stay current with Web 2.0 technologies taught through TOEP
Facilitate within and across-campus mentoring
Support faculty and staff experiencing difficulties with TOEP activities
Collaboratively assess and report on TOEP findings
Share learning back to SUNY & campus (i.e., workshops webinars, conference presentations, or etc.)
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Co-chair Fall 2015 IT@Cornell Planning Committee-Flexible IT
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The IT@Cornell Fall Conference focused on how to remain flexible in your IT work environment.
Ensure high quality, well organized program
Work with committee to develop conference theme, topics and date
Coordinate venue, registration, proposals and schedule
Identify program speakers
Draft conference schedule
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Spring 2015 IT@Cornell Community Conference Committee
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Conference Theme: Connecting the Past, Present and Future
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Cross Cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Project
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Co-PI for Tier three IITG, for $45,000. Worked with co-principal investigators from the SUNY Levin Institute, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Old Westbury, SUNY Ulster, SUNY Cobleskill and SUNY Empire State College. The goal of the grant was to investigate the use of AACU rubrics and e-portfolios as a way to improve the development and assessment of meaningful international learning experiences. The outcome was a cross cultural evaluation toolkit.
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Virtual Term Abroad: Student Engagement & International Interaction Using Meeting and Mobile Tools
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Co-PI for Tier two, $20,000 SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology grant (IITG), to research the use of virtual meeting tools and mobile technology as a way to create a virtual term abroad. Used the Value Creation Framework (Wenger, Trayner & de Latt, 2011) to assess the value of synchronous cross cultural collaborations for students and faculty.
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CornellX MOOCs
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Coordinate and support design, production, development and running of CornellX MOOCs. Work with Center for Teaching Excellence, University Library, video production team, faculty and edX in development of learning outcomes, content and assessment; copyright clearance and OER; and innovation of new tools in edX. Create schedule and project milestones.
Honors & Awards
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$50K Shindig Challenge
Shindig
$1500 award to understand the efficacy of interactive video chat 1) to create a more connected online student experience; 2) on participant to participant and instructor to participant communications that may influence adoption of sustainability practices.
Organizations
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Quality Matters
Cornell Quality Matters Representative
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More activity by Dr. Patrice
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Every Learner Everywhere released the "'The Impact of Digital Learning on Minoritized and Poverty-Affected College Students: 12 Instructors’ Stories'…
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Thinking of adding to my resume: Successfully navigated summer break while working full-time & learning the ropes at a new company. Thoughts?…
Thinking of adding to my resume: Successfully navigated summer break while working full-time & learning the ropes at a new company. Thoughts?…
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Heading out to the #Bouchercon conference in Nashville. Looking forward to connecting with readers, other writers, and the whole awesome…
Heading out to the #Bouchercon conference in Nashville. Looking forward to connecting with readers, other writers, and the whole awesome…
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Want to hear from the front lines of preparing innovative leaders in the health industry? Please join Minerva Project’s next Inside Voices edition…
Want to hear from the front lines of preparing innovative leaders in the health industry? Please join Minerva Project’s next Inside Voices edition…
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For friends in AI Cognitive Science - the 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science is here University College Dublin!…
For friends in AI Cognitive Science - the 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science is here University College Dublin!…
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AI, AI, and more AI! It's not hype—it's real and disruptive. At our recent AI Tinkerers monthly meetup at Æthos, we witnessed some incredible…
AI, AI, and more AI! It's not hype—it's real and disruptive. At our recent AI Tinkerers monthly meetup at Æthos, we witnessed some incredible…
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Was always covered under Title IX, folks! But love to see greater support and awareness (and protections) conveyed our incredible student parents…
Was always covered under Title IX, folks! But love to see greater support and awareness (and protections) conveyed our incredible student parents…
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Drum roll please: My book is available now! You can buy the ebook or read it online via your institution. If you prefer to wait for the softcover…
Drum roll please: My book is available now! You can buy the ebook or read it online via your institution. If you prefer to wait for the softcover…
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We are pleased to share the exciting news that Katie Twomey, MBA has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations. Katie has…
We are pleased to share the exciting news that Katie Twomey, MBA has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations. Katie has…
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a Global Champion for the The Stevens Initiative at the Aspen Institute! Over the next year, I’ll be…
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a Global Champion for the The Stevens Initiative at the Aspen Institute! Over the next year, I’ll be…
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