Recognition: Effective Online Practices Showcase 2023

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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… Continue reading

Recordings-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… Continue reading

Moderators – 2023

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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… Continue reading

Online Student Panel 2023

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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… Continue reading

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

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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… Continue reading

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

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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… Continue reading

Norm Vaughan: Seven Principles of Blended Learning

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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… Continue reading

Robert Stephan: Scaling Techniques for Asynchronous Online Courses

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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… Continue reading

Bridie Killoran: Pathways and RPL

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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… Continue reading