Self-Serve Resources
SUNY Online Teaching has created exemplar models, guides, and resources to assist you in course design and development, course management, and more.
Motivational Strategies in Online Learning
Adding motivational messages is one pedagogical device used in well-designed self-paced instructional environments to keep learners engaged. I would say that these types of devices are typical in some MOOC platforms and high end corporate training.
Adapting Lecture-Based Courses
In an online lecture-based course (synchronous or asynchronous), the online instructor will typically record and post voice over lecture slides in the LMS, and a handful of check-in activities with learners to ensure that everyone is making sense of the concepts and content.
COIL+OSCQR Standards
SUNY Maritime, SUNY Oneonta, Nassau Community College & the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Venezuela, together with the SUNY Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Center & SUNY Online, have designed a set of COIL+OSCQR standards that have been incorporated into the OSCQR rubric.
Online Engineering and Computer Science
I was recently asked for resources and suggestions related to online engineering/computer science courses.
I have put together some discipline specific resources …
a “Fred” by any other name is a “Template”
Close to 30 years ago, I designed the first SUNY Learning Network online course template. We called it a “template” because, as I explained to new online faculty at the time, calling it “Fred,” just didn’t have enough contextual detail to make sense.
The SUNY DLE Course Templates
SUNY Online has developed a set of course templates for 8 distinct use cases and instructional modalities that have been optimized specifically for the SUNY DLE Brightspace environment. Course templates are an important tool for faculty, instructional designers, and learners in digital learning environments.
Interested in Teaching Online?
A good online course starts with well-articulated learning objectives. Content and activities are then designed to target those objectives specifically, and optimized to leverage the online environment to foster deep engagement, interaction, collaboration and ways that online learners can make their thinking and learning visible to the instructor and peers. And finally, methods of providing feedback, assessments and/or evaluations are developed that are authentic methods given the online nature of the learning environment.
DEI4All Project Recognized
The SUNY DEI for All (#DEI4All) project has been selected as an exemplar to be highlighted in the Educause 2024 HorizonReport | Teaching & Learning Edition. Exemplar projects are the heart of the Horizon Report. Below is a description of the SUNY/national project that has been selected to be featured in the publication (p. 27):
Meet the Team
The Online Teaching Team leads support initiatives for SUNY’s online teaching faculty and instructional designers through the delivery of high quality professional development, creation and curation of exemplar resources, and networking of online professionals across the SUNY system.
Albany, New York, USA
Albany, New York, USA
