Open SUNY COTE Effective Practice Award Program – ARCHIVE PAGE
Submit your effective practice!
The Open SUNY COTE Effective Practice Award Program aims to collect, share and showcase the online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities of exemplary Open SUNY Fellows and online practitioners from across the SUNY system.
Open SUNY’s Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) recently launched an initiative to collaborate with the University of Central Florida (UCF) to recognize excellence in online and blended teaching practices across SUNY and create a joint Effective Practices Award Program via the award-winning Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR). TOPR is an open public resource hosted by UCF that reviews, selects, and organizes effective online practices for online faculty, instructional designers and other online teaching and learning practitioners. By combining our online effective practice program with TOPR to collect and showcase online effective practices, we eliminate duplication of efforts and contribute to an already recognized national repository of effective online practices, while providing opportunities for Open SUNY online practitioners to share their effective practices on a national level.
Between October 1 and October 31, we are encouraging submissions from SUNY to be considered for inclusion in TOPR. Entries should describe an online or blended teaching strategy drawn from the pedagogical practices submitted by online/blended practitioners, and include a solid description of the practice with concrete example(s), relevant professional practice, or research literature, and key words connecting to other practices.
Please consider submitting an entry using the submission form at: http://bit.ly/topr_submission
After October 31, entries will continue to be accepted in anticipation of COTE’s annual Effective Practice Awards, conferred at the Open SUNY COTE Summit. All effective practice submissions will be made available to the Open SUNY Fellows Community for review and consideration. Open SUNY COTE Fellows will have the opportunity to vote, and the effective practices that earn the most votes will be recognized.
Timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 1, 2015 | Collaborative Call for Submissions announced |
| October 31, 2015 | TOPR submissions close/COTE continues to accept submissions |
| January 31, 2016 | COTE EP submissions close |
| February 8, 2016 | COTE Community voting opens |
| February 24-26, 2016 | Winners announced at Open SUNY COTE Summit |
| May 31-June 3, 2016 | Award winners showcased at SUNY CIT |
Resources:
View past COTE Effective Practice Submissions in the Open SUNY COTE Effective Practice Awards Facebook Group
TOPR webinar for new contributors
TOPR Pedagogical Practice Categories