Celebrate with COTE for #NDLW

National Distance Learning Week will be celebrated November 6-10, 2017. Stay tuned for the 2017 NDLW schedule of webinars hosted by Open SUNY!

Open SUNY COTE was pleased to host and showcase five presentations from our SUNY campuses and partners in celebration of National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) 2016.

Each day, presenters shared what they are doing on their campus, or a collaboration initiative that you can be involved in.

*All session recordings can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/2fC5G4d

Monday, November 7, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm (EST)
Topic: How to keep engaging nursing students when a learning model is over?
Presenter: Shuhong Luo, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Description: One of the biggest challenges of asynchronous online education is to keep nursing students engaged, especially when a learning module is over and when the students are adult learners who work full time. This presentation will demonstrate the strategies to wrap up students’ assignments in an asynchronous online course. The strategies include:

1. Use students’ quotes to connect with students’ learning experience from their personal level.
2. Use graphs to access, summarize, and recap what students have learned.
3. Discuss new knowledge that ties with students’ real-life scenarios, benefits, and challenges.
4. Make the wrap up concise and clear.
5. Recognize and enhance each student’s every single achievement positively, no matter big or small, such as set up exemplars among students.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm (EST)
Topic: Supporting Academic Integrity and Honesty in Online Courses
Presenter: Davinder Kaur, Stony Brook University
Description: This presentation will cover how to support academic honesty and integrity in fully online classes. We will address why students cheat and how course design, pedagogical techniques, and use of technology can help create a culture of academic honesty.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm (EST)
Topic: What is it like producing a Coursera specialization?
Presenter: Val Chukhlomin, Empire State College
Description: The presentation will focus on the ABCs of MOOC-making and the lessons derived from developing a series of Coursera MOOCs. Producing a large-scale online specialization for Coursera is very different from developing traditional online courses. In a way, it is similar to producing an indie movie where the roles of a producer, a director, an executive producer, a project manager, a director of photography and many others need to be performed by a handful of people who work on a shoestring budget, often without time release, and within a short time frame. In addition, production specifications set by Coursera change on average twice a year, the production team is constantly pressured by being benchmarked against Ivy League schools’ courses, and every one from the dozens thousands of students has the power to publicly like or dislike any of your learning objects. There is a lot of fun in the brave new world of distance learning!

Thursday, November 10, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm (EST)
Title: Preparing Future Nursing Educators to Teach With Technology
Presenters: Kirsty Digger, SUNY Delhi
Description: This session will focus on comprehensive integration of educational technology tools into a graduate nursing education program. Students complete assignments using some type of educational technology in every course. By the time their graduate degree is complete, students have filled a technology toolbox from which they can draw as they start teaching.

Friday, November 11, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm (EST)
Title: Best practices in engaging faculty in online learning policy and decision-making through a campus advisory structure, OLAC
Presenter: Dr. Molly Mott and Michelle Currier, SUNY Canton
Description: Faculty engagement and buy-in is necessary in order to support an institution’s mission to deliver quality and innovative online instruction. Since 2006, SUNY Canton’s faculty-centered Online Learning Advisory Committee (OLAC) has been providing feedback and guidance to the campus administration on issues related to online learning and serving as a liaison to the greater academic community on initiatives that enhance faculty excellence in teaching online. This session seeks to share best practices in crafting and sustaining a productive advisory structure that contributes to faculty and student success in online environments.

National Distance Learning Week is sponsored by the USDLA. For more NDLW sessions being hosted around the globe, visit their website.

Access webinars from COTE NDLW 2015.