Webinars & Recordings

Topics include AI, accessibility, feedback, learning theory, cultural awareness, video tools, creative assignments, multi-media assignments, student engagement and belonging.

Introduction to OSCQR: Self-Assessment
Become an OSCQR Online Course Reviewer
RSI Deep Dive with OSCQR
Designing an OSCQR Implementation Plan

Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners. In this session we introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist, demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs, and highlight important tips for creating accessible digital content.

Discover practical strategies and easy tools to make the most of Brightspace as an instructor. This session covers essential navigation techniques, effective course management tools, and tips for content creation and personalization. Whether you’re new to Brightspace or looking to refine your skills, this training will help you set up and manage courses to enhance usability for both students and instructors. 

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.

Applying the science of learning to distance education means that learners engage in active “meaning making” and reciprocal collaborative activities. Dr. Karen Caldwell (SUNY Potsdam) shares two powerful strategies – dual coding (drawing) and Chi’s ICAP learning theory – that she implements in her fully online, asynchronous courses.

The SUNY Online Teaching OSCQR Awards recognize excellence in implementing the OSCQR online course quality rubric and process. In this session, participants will hear from the 2025 OSCQR Award winners and learn about their innovative approaches to integrating course quality into their courses, programs, and institutional practices.

The Exemplar Online Courses for Observation program showcases outstanding online faculty, courses, instructional design, and campuses, nominated by SUNY campus-based online instructional designers. Tour select courses led by the instructors who designed them.

In Part 2 of the Exemplar Online Courses for Observation webinars, courses from Farmingdale State College are showcased for their outstanding online faculty and instructional design.

COIL+OSCQR standards, AI assignments, Microsoft CoPilot.

Series of four webinars required for various OSCQR certifications.

Creating Engagement in Online Classrooms is a hands-on session for educators and professional instructors who want their learners to feel connected, motivated, and excited to participate online. Together, we explore practical, easy-to-use strategies for building rapport, encouraging interaction, and keeping energy high using discussion, technology, real-world examples, and thoughtful feedback. 

Contemplative pedagogy uses reflection and awareness practices to slow coursework and reduce assessment load, allowing time for deeper processing and integration. This approach is especially important in online learning as it can counter isolation and cognitive overload while connecting students more deeply to content, purpose, and course learning community. In this webinar, we examine how these principles are embedded in the CPD course Foundations of the Online Student Support Role and how similar practices can be applied in other online learning contexts.

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 explores the relationship between generative AI and academic integrity from an information literacy perspective, and includes practical suggestions for application in online teaching.

This session highlights 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, as well as other exciting professional development opportunities available through SUNY OER Services.

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.

The sudden appearance of powerful AI creation tools has caused many concerns, but it has also provided opportunities for educators to enhance their teaching.  

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.

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

Tips for using Brightspace, AI & Assessment, assessment and integrity, DEO, online communication and engagement, AI and assessment, Cool Tools.

Collaborative learning, course syllabus, DEI, AI in teaching and learning, online discussions & assignments, Cool Tools.

Interested in teaching online resource, OSCQR companion resource, SUNY Online Teaching videos, checklist for remote teaching, self-paced & self-serve resources.

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.

Online and blended spaces, peer pedagogy, AI repository, Lumen OHM, Brightspace, creating an OER textbook, creating videos, emerging technologies.

Group work, AI in mental health counseling, ATI, student perceptions of digital reading, reflection strategies and online engagement.

Generative AI, social annotating, OER in criminal justice courses, Brockport project, Milne Open Textbooks, OER and telemedicine.