Open Education Week

During Open Education Week (OEW), SUNY Online in partnership with SUNY OER Services hosts a week-long webinar series to showcase some of the terrific activities from our campuses around open education. These daily virtual webinars are coordinated for participants to drop in and learn about the presentation topics.

Open Education Week was launched in 2012 by Open Education Global as a collaborative, community-built open forum. Every year OE Week raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide. OE Week provides practitioners, educators, and students with an opportunity to build a greater understanding of open educational practices and be inspired by the wonderful work being developed by the community around the world.

SUNY Online OEW webinars are included on the Open Ed Global website making this a terrific opportunity for SUNY faculty to share with their peers and to an international audience.

Monday, March 3, 2025

10:00-10:45AM EST
Title: Utilizing Elements of Online Engagement as a Strategy for Reflection
Presenter: Stephanie Foote, Stony Brook University
Description: This session will focus on approaches to apply the elements of online engagement, using guided reflection, in the intentional design and delivery of online courses. Participants will leave the session with ideas they can incorporate immediately into their own courses, and resources for continuous course improvement.

1:00-1:45PM EST
Title: Student Perceptions of Digital Reading
Presenter: Krista Quinn, SUNY Rockland Community College
Description: This presentation explores how students perceive digital reading in academic contexts. In Fall 2024 SUNY Rockland started a project to train students to be better digital readers using research based strategies on active reading. We will share the results of our students’ perceptions of digital reading from the beginning of the project to the end, and we will briefly review the strategies we taught our students.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

12:00-12:45PM EST
Title: Using Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Counseling classes online
Presenter: Dr. Donald Nowak, University at Buffalo
Description: This presentation will showcase how assignments and mock counseling sessions can use AI to enhance the student experience. This will be focused in relation to assignment construction and how AI can be leveraged to enhance the mental health counseling students (and other students in general).

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

10:00-10:45AM EST
Title: Our Experiment in Using ATI in Lieu of a Textbook
Presenter: Jeannine Kennedy, SUNY Rockland Community College
Description: This presentation and discussion will detail the highlights and challenges of using an online platform, ATI, in lieu of a textbook. ATI is an online learning platform for course materials.

Thursday, March 6, 2025

2:00-2:45PM EST
Title: The Evolving OER Landscape: New Projects and Updates
Presenter: Mary Jo Orzech, Jie Zhang, Nicole Baker, Kathy Olmstead, Jennifer Kegler, Shirin Sultana, Ginny Orzel, Jennifer Wood – SUNY Brockport
Description: As OER evolves, it is being incorporated in new ways at Brockport. A panel of faculty OER champions will describe strategies they’re using to include open resources and open practices in their courses. Examples include an OER and AI collaboration between Computer Science and Education students who are exploring AI tools (Zhang). Education students are creating an OER handbook of teaching activities aligned with literacy standards (Olmstead). Librarians, Education and other faculty work together to bring country and culture into Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses (Kegler). Social Work faculty are including open resources in the curriculum (Wood, Shirin). Faculty produced a promotional OER video featuring faculty and librarians. (Baker, Orzel). Come hear our successes, challenges, and next steps.

Friday, March 7, 2025

2:30-3:15PM EST
Title: Group work for diverse classrooms
Presenter: Juliette Passer, Stony Brook University
Description: Group work in diverse classrooms can be an enriching experience that fosters collaboration, inclusivity, and deeper learning. This presentation will share strategies to make group work effective in such settings.