Webinars & Recordings

Date: September 17, 2025
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM EST
Presenter: Trevor Johnson-Steigelman, Associate Professor of Physics, Finger Lakes Community College
AI Prompting for Educators is a presentation designed to share ways you can interact with AI to get better results. As an educator, you can use AI to help you create and improve handouts, activities, and assessments to enhance your classroom.  We’ll investigate prompt structures that help you get the results you want.

Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00PM EST
Presenter: Allison Hosier, Head of Information Literacy, University at Albany
Generative AI has posed huge challenges to academic integrity as students have started to submit work that is partially or fully generated by AI. These challenges are especially difficult to navigate in the online environment. This presentation will explore the relationship between generative AI and academic integrity from an information literacy perspective. It will include practical suggestions for application in online teaching.

Date: October 8, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00PM EST
Presenter: Alexandra Pickett, Director of Online Teaching, SUNY Online and SUNY campus faculty

The Exemplar Online Courses for Observation program showcases outstanding online faculty, courses, instructional design, and campuses, nominated by SUNY campus-based online instructional designers. These courses demonstrate approaches to course content layout in Brightspace, design of interaction, criteria for assessment/evaluation, instructions, and some creative ways to implement a variety of online learning activities and objectives.  Join us for a tour of select courses led by the instructors who designed them.

Date: November 13, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00PM EST
Presenter(s): Cori Wilhelm, OER Program Manager, SUNY Office of Library and Information Services and Tony DeFranco, Director, SUNY OER Services
Discover exciting professional development opportunities available in Spring 2026 through SUNY OER Services. This session will highlight partnerships with Lumen Learning (Lumen Circles) and the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) (Learning Engineering Fellowship), offering pathways for faculty to enhance teaching practice, engage in reflective learning, and support student success through open and evidence-based approaches. 

Date: December 3, 2025
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM EST
Presenters: Jamie Heron, SUNY Online Program Manager and Allene Slating, SUNY Online Teaching Senior Instructional Designer
Brightspace (BSP) has a wide variety of tools and efficiencies that streamline grading practices for faculty – making it easier to provide authentic, formative, and timely feedback. This workshop covers Brightspace rubrics and grading tools & strategies.

Recorded training workshops and resources to support faculty using the Brightspace LMS.

Online communication and engagement, AI and assessment, Cool Tools.

Various recordings including SUNY Online Summit, SUNY Online Teaching webinars (2022 and earlier), interviews with SUNY Online Teaching Ambassadors and Fellows, OSCQR standards, and more.

Digital literacy in health sciences, designing with empathy, creating connection, elevating course design in Brightspace, online homework systems, regular & substantive interaction at the institutional level.

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to education, ensuring inclusive and equitable assessments can be challenging, particularly for online instructors. This presentation explored how AI can effectively support authentic and inclusive assessment practices. Participants examined the application of adult learning theory and universal design principles to enhance teaching and learning while addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in online environments.

The four-part OSCQR webinar series prepares online faculty, online instructional designers, and online administrators with the information, tools, and resources necessary to design and tailor an approach to address the quality of the design and accessibility of online courses. Certification options are available.