11:00-11:45AM EST
Title: Using Feedback as a Tool for Growth
Presenter: Dan Barrancotta, Genesee Community College
Description: Feedback is an opportunity to continue teaching and learning through an assessment. In this session, we’ll explore how timely, well-aligned and purposeful feedback encourages a growth mindset that keeps students engaged in the learning process. When used effectively, feedback helps learners reflect, revise, and improve, reinforcing that learning is ongoing and effort leads to growth.

11:00-11:45AM EST
Title: Science of Learning in Distance Education – 2 Examples
Presenter: Karen Caldwell, SUNY Potsdam
Description: Applying the science of learning to distance education means that learners engage in active “meaning making” and reciprocal collaborative activities. The presenter will share two powerful strategies – dual coding and the interactive stage of Chi’s ICAP learning theory – that she implements in her fully online, asynchronous courses.

1:00-1:45PM EST 
Title: Designing online courses to be inclusive and accessible 
Presenter: Casey L. Ryan, Hudson Valley Community College
Description: This presentation will focus on the ways online courses can incorporate the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) with accessibility requirements to create learning experiences to benefit all student learners. 

10:00-10:45AM EST 
Title: Accessible Course Content Checklist
Presenter: Allene Slating, Senior Instructional Designer, SUNY Online Teaching
Description: Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners.

In this session, we will:

• Introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist
• Demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs
• Highlight important points and tips for creating accessible digital content

*Note: This session will be the same as November 6th. Duplication is intentional to accommodate the varying teaching schedules of our audience.

11:00-11:45AM EST 
Title: Empowering Global Learners: Integrating AI into Critical Thinking and Cultural Awareness Assignments
Presenters: Jie Zhang and Ann Pearlman, SUNY Brockport
Description: In today’s increasingly AI-driven world, students must learn to critically engage with AI tools to better understand their societal, professional, and personal implications. This presentation explores how AI can be integrated into assignments that foster critical thinking and cultural awareness. Presenters will share their course examples and participants will gain practical insights into designing AI-enhanced coursework that promotes deeper learning and global competence.

1:00-1:45PM EST 
Title: DOMINATE Video Production with Google Vids
Presenter: Dave Ghidiu, Finger Lakes Community College
Description: If you have used Google Slides to make presentations, you have the necessary experience to make videos with Google Vids. It’s the app you haven’t heard of but will fall in love with. In addition to “drag and drop” elements, it has pre-made templates, is cloud-based, and is collaborative. Updating videos with new content every semester is a breeze with Google Vids. 

Have a Google Slides presentation you want to narrate (or take any screencapture for that matter)? Google Vids is your new best friend – you can seamlessly capture the screen and your talking head – in two different streams! And the AI pieces? UNREAL. Throw in an avatar to read your script. Edit out all your “ums” and “uhs”. Insert stock footage with ease. Generate images with AI on demand. Learn all these and more in this dynamic session!

10:00-10:45AM EST 
Title: Side Quests in Your Online Course
Presenter: Jennifer Shloming, Fashion Institute of Technology
Description: Side quests are optional activities that let students spark their curiosity in a topic that may not be covered during class, which can earn them a bonus and develop skills.

12:00-12:45PM EST 
Title: Accessible Course Content Checklist
Presenter: Allene Slating, Senior Instructional Designer, SUNY Online Teaching
Description: Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners.

In this session, we will:

• Introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist
• Demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs
• Highlight important points and tips for creating accessible digital content

*Note: This session will be the same as November 5th. Duplication is intentional to accommodate the varying teaching schedules of our audience.

1:00-1:45PM EST 
Title: Case Studies: Working with Faculty on Title II Compliance
Presenter: Claudia Cafarelli – Nassau Community College
Description: View examples of case studies working with faculty to update teaching materials and make them compliant with Title II, from easy fixes to complex tables and PowerPoints. We’ll share how to help faculty design a plan for editing.

10:00-10:45AM EST
Title: Creating Friction: Using Multi-Media Assignments in Online Courses
Presenter: Rachel Rigolino, SUNY New Paltz
Description: This presentation examines how the instructor transformed a standard assignment — an annotated bibliography — into a multimedia assignment. The original purpose was to circumvent student overreliance on abstracts and surface reading and encourage students to actually read sources and evaluate them. In the age of AI, these multimedia assignments have proven to be even more valuable.  

11:00-11:45AM EST 
Title: Strategies to Design for Student Engagement and Belonging in Online Courses
Presenter: Stephanie Foote, Stony Brook University
Description: Student engagement and sense of belonging are shaped by initial class experiences or class beginnings (Lange, 2016). While there are strategies faculty can use to maximize the beginning and end of synchronous class meetings, this session will focus on four approaches faculty can take to be intentional about the design of the beginning of their synchronous or asynchronous online course(s) in a broader sense. Specifically, we will explore pedagogical approaches that can be implemented to communicate belonging and engagement before and during the early part of a course. Participants will leave with specific ideas that can be implemented, immediately, in their own online courses. 

Outcomes:

1. Describe the importance of class beginnings on student engagement and belonging in online courses.
2. Analyze four approaches that can be implemented to foster student engagement and belonging.
3. Identify at least one approach to implement in your own course(s).