{"id":3695,"date":"2017-02-08T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=3695"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:31:47","slug":"2017ambassador-ahmad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2017ambassador-ahmad\/","title":{"rendered":"Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2017 &#8211; Dutchess: Seemi Ahmad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3696\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2017\/02\/SAhmad_photo-e1486582541484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2017\/02\/SAhmad_photo-e1486582541484.jpg\" alt=\"Seemi Ahmad\" width=\"349\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SAhmad_photo-e1486582541484.jpg 349w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SAhmad_photo-e1486582541484-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SAhmad_photo-e1486582541484-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seemi Ahmad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Seemi Ahmad<\/strong> is a professor of economics at Dutchess Community College.<\/p>\n<p><em>I was one of the early adopters of SUNY\u2019s online initiative and started teaching online economics classes at Dutchess Community College over 15 years ago. I took online classes myself and the State University of New York, SLN, did a great job in training us for this new platform which used Lotus Notes! We have come a long way from there!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have been able to teach students who otherwise would not have the time to be a college student. The discussions and interactions among the students have been phenomenal and many times better than my face-to-face classes. The course itself has evolved as we used Quality Matters certification and looked at our courses critically. It is an honor to be a teaching ambassador and I will keep striving to make this platform more accessible and offer courses of exceptional quality to our students.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemi Ahmad is a professor of economics at Dutchess Community College. I was one of the early adopters of SUNY\u2019s online initiative and started teaching online economics classes at Dutchess Community College over 15 years ago. I took online classes myself and the State University of New York, SLN, did a great job in training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695"}],"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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695\/revisions\/3766"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}