{"id":11781,"date":"2026-02-22T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=11781"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:35:53","slug":"2026ambassador-fredericks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/ambassadors\/2026ambassador-fredericks\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2026: Rockland &#8211; Jonathan Fredericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11782\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JFredericks_Rockland_350-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Fredericks headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JFredericks_Rockland_350-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JFredericks_Rockland_350-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JFredericks_Rockland_350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Fredericks<br \/>SUNY Rockland Community College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Fredericks<\/strong> is an adjunct faculty at SUNY Rockland where he has taught since 2015, primarily in criminal justice classes. Jonathan also recently retired from the NYPD where he completed 30 years of service, the last 10 of which he served in the NYPD Bronx Homicide Squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a very enthusiastic advocate for online teaching.\u00a0 I find the modality to be truly a benefit towards nontraditional learning and students.\u00a0 Some of my greatest challenges using online education are imparting real world examples to illustrate just how the &#8216;book&#8217; relates to the actual law enforcement world.\u00a0 My use of videos (self-created) to illustrate these points is something the students truly enjoy and get a lot out of.\u00a0 The discussion board topics take all of us (I interact with them as well) on interesting journeys depending on the issues and cases of the day.\u00a0 Online learning is something I would highly recommend to those that couldn&#8217;t do a traditional commitment to an in person classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Fredericks is an adjunct faculty at SUNY Rockland where he has taught since 2015, primarily in criminal justice classes. Jonathan also recently retired from the NYPD where he completed 30 years of service, the last 10 of which he served in the NYPD Bronx Homicide Squad.\u00a0 &#8220;I am a very enthusiastic advocate for online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":10809,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11781\/revisions\/11783"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}