The SUNY Effective Online Practices Program aims to collect, share and showcase the online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities or programs of exemplary SUNY online practitioners from across the SUNY system. All effective online practice submissions will be included in the SUNY Effective Online Practices Repository.

Program Categories:

• Online Teaching & Learning Practices: Online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities, including practices to ensure quality in online course design and accessibility. Strategies or activities that incorporate OER and/or DEI practices are also included in this category.
• Online Student Support Practices: Best practices, programs or initiatives that support the success of online students. Strategies or activities that incorporate OER and/or DEI practices are also included in this category.
• Online Program Partnership Practices: Exemplary models of multi-campus or global partnerships and/or intra-campus collaborations that benefit/support online courses or online student programs. Strategies or activities that incorporate OER and/or DEI practices are also included in this category.
• NEW! Online Innovative Academic Technology Practices: Strategic uses of digital tools (i.e., AI, LMS, apps) and data to create interactive, adaptive, and effective learning experiences and environments, support student engagement, and improve access.
  

Awards:

The SUNY Community will have the opportunity to review and rate entries and the effective online practices that earn the highest ratings overall will be recognized as part of the program awards conferred annually in the spring.

Program participants are invited to present their effective online practice as part of ongoing SUNY Online webinar offerings.