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.

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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.

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

2024, Day 2, Day1-2024, 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, Day 2, 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 Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released, rescinded, and plans to rewrite guidance about Third Party Servicers (TPS).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 […]

Recognition: Online Teaching Ambassadors

2024, Day 2, Day2-2024, Recognition, Recognition-2024, Sessions-2024, Workshop-2024

SUNY Online Teaching Ambassadors have been nominated by their campus for this recognition as exemplary online educators, who are both enthusiastic and effective in online teaching, and honored for their positive contributions to the field of online teaching in SUNY. Each honoree will receive a certificate of recognition, a profile page on the SUNY Online […]

Unsession

2024, Day 2, Day2-2024, Networking, Sessions

Share a mini presentation! Show, demo, or talk about your own innovation, best practice, cool tool, project, program, initiative, or idea (in online course design, instructional technology, online faculty development) in 3-minutes, or less. Please add your name and a bulleted list/summary of what you plan to share, including links if any 🙂 http://bit.ly/unsession2024 Moderator: […]

Online Learner Panel

2024, Day 2, Day2-2024

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: Online Student Support, […]

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

2024, Day 2, 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 […]

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, Day 1, 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 […]

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase

2024, Day 1, Day1-2024, Recognition, Recognition-2024

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 […]

Harry Cargile: SUNY Digital Learning Environment Update

Day 1, 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 […]

SUNY Welcome and Opening Session

Day 1, Sessions

This session will begin with welcoming remarks from the SUNY Provost. Highlights from digital innovation initiatives across the SUNY Provost’s Office will be provided. Specific updates will be shared from SUNY Online, including the state of online education in SUNY, how services are evolving to support the new Digital Learning Environment, accomplishments of the past […]

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 […]

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 […]

Panel: Hot Topics in FERPA

2023, Day3-2023, Panel-2023

With the increase in use of digital tools and digital teaching and learning platforms post-pandemic, and growing concerns about the protection of student data, there are increasing questions about how to ensure that student data protected by FERPA is safeguarded in digital teaching and learning environments. In a System like SUNY, there are additional questions […]

Norm Vaughan: Seven Principles of Blended Learning

2023, Day2-2023, Sessions-2023

Blended learning (BL) is not new and has gained significant traction in higher education. We argued more than a decade ago that BL “is emerging as the organizing concept in transforming teaching and learning while preserving the core values of higher education” (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008, p.143). This was based on the ability to fuse […]

Robert Stephan: Scaling Techniques for Asynchronous Online Courses

2023, Day2-2023, Sessions-2023

How do you provide a personalized, seminar-like experience in a large online class? The issue of scaling undergraduate courses while encouraging academic rigor and individualized learning experiences applies to both in-person and online courses alike. Yet online instruction – especially in an asynchronous modality – brings this question even more prominently to the fore, especially […]

Bridie Killoran: Pathways and RPL

2023, Day2-2023, Sessions-2023

Supporting Online Learner Success with Pathways and Recognition of Prior Learning This presentation will provide an overview of the establishment of a Regional Service for Careers and Learning Pathways, including the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for flexible and online learners in the technological sector in Ireland. At Atlantic Technological University (ATU), the My Career […]

Mark Gale & Joy Oettel – ActiveFlex: Courses that Adapt to Your Life and Schedule

2023, Day2-2023, Sessions-2023

Flexibility and student success in a world full of unknowns is what was promised when HyFlex was mentioned as a tool against COVID-19 shutdowns during the early months of the pandemic. Hence, a handful of faculty and staff were tasked with piloting a HyFlex initiative in response to COVID-19. Three out of five courses ended […]

Panel: Investigating Videoconference Tools for HyFlex Courses

2023, Day1-2023, Panel-2023

This panel will provide an overview of the “Tools for HyFlex Courses” project funded by the SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant program in the 2022-23 academic year. HyFlex courses are student-centered course offerings that give students the option of attending the course in person, synchronously online, or asynchronously online. Students have the ability to choose […]

Panel: Using AI to improve online learner writing and online instructor effectiveness

2023, Day1-2023, Panel-2023

Packback’s new writing tool, Deep Dives, supports improvements in online learner writing skills. Using AI, Deep Dives assists online learners with the planning, researching, drafting, and citation creation process of writing assignments – and gives them feedback in real time, based on a rubric set by the instructor. Packback Deep Dives assists in improving online […]

ChatGPT Workshop: A Hands-On Guide to AI Challenges and Opportunities

2023, Day1-2023, Workshop-2023

This workshop will examine key features, limitations, and potential uses of ChatGPT, an artificial-intelligence (AI) tool that generates original text in a variety of formats. Please bring a laptop or tablet to make the most of hands-on activities and, if possible, create a free ChatGPT account in advance at chat.openai.com. In this workshop, participants will: Daniel […]

Social Networking: Dessert Social

2023, Day2-2023, 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 Event: Dessert Social Bring your dessert and/or a glass of your favorite beverage, and connect with […]

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Celebrations 2024

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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

Recognition: Online Teaching Ambassadors

Unsession

Online Learner Panel

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

Panel: SUNY Reports on AI

Social Networking Activities – 2024

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

Panel: NYS Investments

Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase

Harry Cargile: SUNY Digital Learning Environment Update

SUNY Welcome and Opening Session

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”?

Panel: Hot Topics in FERPA

Norm Vaughan: Seven Principles of Blended Learning

Robert Stephan: Scaling Techniques for Asynchronous Online Courses

Bridie Killoran: Pathways and RPL

Mark Gale & Joy Oettel – ActiveFlex: Courses that Adapt to Your Life and Schedule

Panel: Investigating Videoconference Tools for HyFlex Courses

Panel: Using AI to improve online learner writing and online instructor effectiveness

ChatGPT Workshop: A Hands-On Guide to AI Challenges and Opportunities

Social Networking: Dessert Social