SUNY Effective Online Practices Award Program

The SUNY Effective Online Practices Award 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.

Program award tracks include:

Online Teaching & Learning Practices: Online best practices, strategies, and innovative online teaching and learning activities.
Online Course Quality Practices: Exemplary processes or practices to ensure quality in online course design, online course accessibility, and student online learning environment.
Online Student Support Practices: Best practices, programs or initiatives that support the success of online students.
Online Enrollment/Recruitment Practices: Exemplary models of online student recruitment practices.
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.
Online Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Practices: Best practices, tools, and/or strategies that build DEI awareness and support DEI efforts in online teaching and learning activities, online courses, and professional development for online practitioners.

All effective online practice submissions will be included in the SUNY Effective Online Practices Repository. 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. The Effective Online Practices Awards are conferred annually at the SUNY Online Summit.

Timeline for 2025 Submissions (Round 11)

Call for Submissions Opens – January 13, 2025
Call for Submissions Closes – February 15, 2025
Peer Voting Opens – February 17, 2025 (see instructions below)
Peer Voting Closes – February 24, 2025
Awards Conferred at the SUNY Online Summit– February 26-28, 2025
Poster session at SUNY CIT – May 20-23, 2025, SUNY Oneonta

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Peer Voting
Recognition is awarded to entries who receive the highest collective community ratings.
To review and rate entries, follow these steps:

Visit the 2025 SUNY Effective Online Practices entries page.
Click on the entry titles to read the full descriptions and details.
Complete the “Review this entry” section at the bottom of each entry to rate each Effective Online Practice. All fields are optional. You only need to select the stars, then click the Post Review button.

*Note: Your rating may not be immediately viewable and you may have to refresh the page.

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SUNY Effective Online Practice Award Program participants are invited to present their effective online practice during National Distance Learning Week and as part of ongoing SUNY Online webinar offerings, and submit to the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR).

TOPR Partnership
SUNY Online Teaching, in collaboration with the University of Central Florida (UCF), sponsors an initiative to recognize excellence in online and blended teaching practices across SUNY in a joint Effective Practices Award Program via the award-winning Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR). TOPR is an open public resource hosted by UCF that reviews, selects, and organizes effective online practices for online faculty, instructional designers and other online teaching and learning practitioners. Submissions from SUNY in the Online Teaching & Learning track are invited to be submitted for consideration for inclusion in TOPR.