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SUNY Online Teaching partners with TOPR

Written by cen-maneyer on October 20, 2016. Posted in blog, partnerships, project, teaching online.

SUNY Online Teaching is pleased to partner with the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to showcase best practices in online teaching and learning via the award winning international Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) – 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.

TOPR is an open resource for faculty and instructional designers dedicated to enhancing online and blended teaching strategies, serving as a comprehensive repository that showcases a wide range of teaching strategies. Each entry is meticulously drawn from the real-world pedagogical practices of experienced online and blended teaching faculty. These strategies are illustrated with actual course artifacts, providing a concrete understanding of their application. Furthermore, each entry from contributors across the world is thoughtfully aligned with findings from relevant research or professional practice literature, ensuring that the strategies are both practical and evidence-based.

SUNY Online Teaching, in collaboration with the University of Central Florida (UCF), sponsors an initiative to recognize excellence in online teaching practices across SUNY by annually inviting entries from our Effective Online Practices Award Program to be submitted to TOPR for consideration and inclusion.

View SUNY entries in TOPR.

Additionally, the SUNY Online Course Quality Rubric (OSCQR) standards have been cross-walked with the TOPR repository to include TOPR resources into the OSCQR rubric, where applicable, as examples to help faculty refresh their online courses.

SUNY OER Services @ Open SUNY Textbooks

Written by cen-maneyer on October 10, 2016. Posted in resources, Uncategorized.

Some really good news for OER in SUNY is the quest for an Executive Director for OER at SUNY Geneseo! This position will administer and coordinate operations and the strategic direction for Open SUNY Textbooks (OST) and SUNY OER Services (SOS). The application deadline was October 10th and preliminary interviews will begin ASAP.

This position is made possible by the visionary commitment of fiscal resources and administrative support for OER from the SUNY Office of the Provost, in particular Carey Hatch, Associate Provost of ATIS, and Paul Schacht, Interim Provost and VP for Academic Affairs at Geneseo.

With Tompkins Cortland Community College leading the way in successful implementation of OER, several other SUNY campuses are making strong inroads as well. The Executive Director of Open SUNY Textbooks & SUNY OER Services will provide system-wide leadership in OER for all SUNY campuses, thereby optimizing the collaborations and synergies already happening. At last count, the adoption of open textbooks has saved SUNY students over $840,000!