SUNY Online Summit

SUNY Online: Expanding access. Raising completion. Preparing students for success.

Community Engagement: Promoting community engagement in online teaching & learning across the system.

Community of Practice: Supports continuous improvements in online practices & networking for those willing to “share what they know!”

SUNY Online Effective Practices: Sharing & showcasing online best practices, strategies, & innovative online teaching & learning activities.

SUNY Online Teaching Ambassadors: are enthusiastic & effective in online teaching & advocates for online education in our community.

Welcome the SUNY Online annual summit for online learning practitioners.

Online Teaching & Learning: Celebrate. Connect. Share. Grow.

Join our SUNY Online Flickr group to add photos to this year’s slideshow!

The SUNY Online Summit will be a face-to-face event (fee) and a virtual event (free) this year. Times are listed in Eastern Time/USA.

Registration is required.

Davis & Dowd: Federal Policy: Past, Present, Future. The Impact on Digital Learning

2025, Day 3, Day3-2025, Sessions

DAY 3 : February 28, 2025 Time 11:30AM – 12:30PM Federal Policy: Past, Present, Future. The Impact on Digital Learning Along with the development of innovative means to provide broader access to learners through digital learning, there has been a fifteen-year trend to increasingly regulate academic programs, institutional quality, and accountability. U.S. Department of Education […]

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Welcome to the home of the SUNY Online annual summit for online learning practitioners. 2025 will be the 26th Anniversary of the SUNY Online Summit! Register for the conference! Face-to-Face and Virtual Event Dates: February 26-28, 2025.

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Join our SUNY Online Flickr group to add photos to this year’s slideshow! View our Flickr group photos being collected for the SUNY Online 2025 photos. See the photos from last years’ summit!! See the photos from 2023! See the photos from 2022! See the photos from 2021! See the photos from 2020! See the […]

SUNY Online

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SUNY Online provides services, supports, and resources for online learning activities and initiatives across the SUNY system and a broad community of online teaching and learning practitioners and stakeholders. Online Teaching and Learning at SUNY has a 30+ year history!

Networking Activities

2025, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day1-2025, Day2-2025, Day3-2025, Networking

The Summit provides opportunities for face-to-face and virtual networking, discussion, and social interaction for our online community of practice stakeholders. Our virtual and face-to-face participants are invited to join us to meet friends and colleagues, and socialize. Social Networking activities take place virtually and in-person throughout the event. Networking with friends & colleagues at the […]

Celebrations 2024

2024

Recordings-2024

2024

>> Please fill out the Survey: https://bit.ly/Summit2024Feedback The SUNY Online Summit presentations and the recordings from this event are provided FREE of charge. Registration is required for participation in both the face-to-face event in NYC, NY, as well as for access to the live virtual event (no guarantees are made regarding quality of broadcast). Keep in mind […]

Speakers-2024

2024

Opening Remarks – Special Guest SUNY Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Dr. Melur “Ram” Ramasubramanian Track: Plenary, Online Admin/Leadership, Online Student Support, Online Instructional Designers, Online Faculty Kim Scalzo is the interim senior associate provost of Digital Innovation and Academic Services (DIAS), former executive director of SUNY Online and Interim Executive Director of Academic Technologies and Information Services […]

Moderators – 2024

2024

ASSIGNED MODERATORS ARE SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION / CHANGE. TIME SESSION TITLE SPEAKER(S) SESSION INTROPERSON/ MODERATOR VIRTUALMODERATOR DATE2/28/2024 10:00-10:30 10:30 – 11:30 Opening Remarks SUNY Update / SUNY Online Update SUNY Provost Ram Kim Scalzo &Dan Feinberg *Kim ScalzoInterim Senior Associate Provost,Digital Innovation& AcademicServices KIM.SCALZO@SUNY.EDU […]

Program-2024

2024

>>.pdf of program at a glance. >> Please fill out the Survey: https://bit.ly/Summit2024Feedback Registration is required for the SUNY Online Summit (2/28-29/24) face-to-face event at the Global Center in NYC (2024), as well as for access to the live virtual event (no guarantees are made regarding quality of broadcast). Keep in mind that any times listed are approximate and in […]

Howard & Newman: Using Feminist Pedagogy to Design Learner-Centered Learning Experiences Online

2024, Day2-2024

Feminist pedagogy is a form of liberatory pedagogy. Facilitators will share an introduction to feminist pedagogy, including practical examples from their teaching. Participants will actively workshop an aspect of their course (syllabus, assessment) around feminist pedagogy tenets of humanizing online learning, creating cultures of care, and fostering embodiment in online learning.Session Learning Outcomes: At the end […]

Cheryl Dowd: The Regulations and Guidance Lurking Around the Bend

2024, Day2-2024, Sessions, Sessions-2024

What the federal government has to say about serving students in other states, third-party servicers, and Artificial Intelligence Digitally delivered education is affected by the increasing development and use of AI. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released, rescinded, and plans to rewrite guidance about Third Party Servicers (TPS). ED released new final regulations […]

Online Learner Panel 2024

2024, Day2-2024, Panel

This session will feature online learners from various SUNY campuses who will share their experiences and observations as online students. Co- Moderators: Susan Warner,SUNY Online Student Supports/Success Project Manager Dr. Michele Forte, Associate Professor & Mentor in Community and Human Services, SUNY Empire State University. Profile View Online Learner Panelists Tracks: Plenary, (Online Admin/Leadership, Online Student […]

Panel: Building Quality Online Bachelor’s Programs That Students Want: What the Data Say

2024, Day2-2024, Sessions, Sessions-2024

The greatest online market opportunity is at the bachelor’s level, according to a 2022 study of 1,600 prospective online students and their program preferences. How do institutions respond to these expectations while creating quality online learning experiences? This interactive session invites participants to explore student preferences and strategies to address them. A 2022 RNL survey […]

Panel: SUNY Reports on AI

2024, Day2-2024, Panel

Artificial Intelligence (AI) at SUNY Panel Moderator: Kim Scalzo, Interim Senior Associate Provost of DIAS

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2024

2024, Day1-2024, Recognition-2024

DAY 1: Wednesday, February 27, 2024 1:30PM – 2:30PM The intention of a “community of practice” is to share what you know for the benefit of all in the community. The SUNY Effective Online Practices Award Program collects, shares, and showcases the online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities of exemplary […]

Social Networking Activities – 2024

2024, Day1-2024, Day2-2024

Nufer & Estrada: Workshop – Innovative Online Course Development Using AI

2024, Day1-2024, Workshop, Workshop-2024

A Hands-On Approach Join us for an interactive workshop where we explore the methods, approaches, and strategies for online teaching and learning with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how we can leverage generative technologies in our online classrooms and course design. This collaborative session is designed as a hands-on experience for online educators and content designers […]

Panel: NYS Investments

2024, Day1-2024, Panel, Sessions

This year, the State of New York has made unprecedented investments in both student success and digital transformation infrastructure. This has led to new and exciting initiatives to come out of those areas to support SUNY faculty, students, and campus leaders. During this panel, Donna Linderman (Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Success) and Valerie Dent (Associate […]

Harry Cargile: SUNY Digital Learning Environment Update

2024, Day1-2024, Sessions

The SUNY Digital Learning Environment implementation project is in its final stretch after years of planning and execution. Let’s pause for a moment … this is a big deal and a reflection of the collaboration, efforts, and partnership across all of SUNY to do this transformative work. This session will reflect on our shared journey […]

D2L Connection Event

2024, Day3-2024

This year Day 3 of the SUNY Online Summit will be sponsored and coordinated by D2L. A separate registration is required. There will be no charge for this event, and it will NOT be streamed live, or recorded. The D2L Connection event will take place in-person at the SUNY Global Center on March 1, 2024 […]

Program-2023

2023

The SUNY Online Summit is an annual event and gathering of the SUNY Online Teaching community of practice. This event took place as a face-to-face event at the DoubleTree Hotel, Syracuse, NY (March 8-10, 2023), and as a live virtual event. The event was recorded, no guarantees are made regarding quality of recordings. Materials and […]

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2023

2023, Day1-2023, Recognition-2023

The intention of a “community of practice” is to share what you know for the benefit of all in the community. The SUNY Effective Online Practices Award Program collects, shares, and showcases the online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities of exemplary SUNY online practitioners from across the SUNY system. All […]

Assigned moderators are subject to confirmation / change. Time Session Title Speaker(s) Session Intro Person/ Moderator Virtual Moderator Date 3/8/2023 10:00 – 11:30 Welcome / SUNY Update / SUNY Online Update Provost, Kim Scalzo & Dan Feinberg Kim Scalzo Interim Senior Associate Provost of Digital Innovation & Academic Services John Zelenak SUNY Online, Operations Manager […]

Online Student Panel 2023

2023, Day2-2023, Panel-2023

This session will feature online students from various SUNY campuses who will share their experiences and observations as online students. Co- Moderators: Dr. Michele Forte, Manager of Student Supports,SUNY Online, & Associate Professor & Mentor in Community and Human Services, SUNY Empire State College. Profile Kiara Williams, Program Manager of the Braven Leadership and Career Accelerator @ […]

Bettyjo Bouchey: Following the data…how to support online students through data-informed action

2023, Day3-2023, Sessions, Sessions-2023

As online programming becomes the mainstay at institutions of higher education, it is important to understand the affordances of the data amassed during an online student’s journey to support their success through graduation. Dr. Bouchey will share a series of dashboards in this session and attendees will have an opportunity to see how NLU is […]

Marc Austin: How do Universities Define “Online Learning”?

2023, Day3-2023, Sessions-2023

As universities braced for COVID-19 in Spring 2020, everything went “online.” Faculty quickly pivoted to remote teaching with various degrees of success. As we recover from the pandemic, campuses confront the remnants of one of the largest experiments in distance learning ever experienced. And as such, a long-standing challenge re-emerges more prominently today – how […]

SUNY Welcome and Opening Session

Supporting Online Coaching at SUNY

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2025

Workshop: Kelly Hermann – Building an Accessibility Strategy

Megan Kohler: Divergent Minds, Inspired Designs

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Online Learner Panel 2025

Panel: Accelerated Online Learning: Insights from Faculty, Staff & Students

Recognition: Online Teaching Ambassadors

Michelle Singh: Adapting to Innovation

Kathe Pelletier: CHLOE 9 Report

Davis & Dowd: Federal Policy: Past, Present, Future. The Impact on Digital Learning

Welcome!

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SUNY Online

Networking Activities

Celebrations 2024

Recordings-2024

Speakers-2024

Moderators – 2024

Program-2024

Howard & Newman: Using Feminist Pedagogy to Design Learner-Centered Learning Experiences Online

Cheryl Dowd: The Regulations and Guidance Lurking Around the Bend

Online Learner Panel 2024

Panel: Building Quality Online Bachelor’s Programs That Students Want: What the Data Say

Panel: SUNY Reports on AI

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2024

Social Networking Activities – 2024

Nufer & Estrada: Workshop – Innovative Online Course Development Using AI

Panel: NYS Investments

Harry Cargile: SUNY Digital Learning Environment Update

D2L Connection Event

Program-2023

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2023

Speakers-2023

Recordings-2023

Moderators – 2023

Online Student Panel 2023

Bettyjo Bouchey: Following the data…how to support online students through data-informed action

Marc Austin: How do Universities Define “Online Learning”?