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 (can include OER).
- Online Course Quality Practices: Exemplary processes or practices to ensure quality in online course design, online course accessibility, and student online learning environment (can include OER).
- 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 (can include OER).
- 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 2024 Submissions (Round 10)
- Call for Submissions Opens – January 4, 2024
- Call for Submissions Closes – February 12, 2024
- Peer Voting Opens – February 13, 2024
- Peer Voting Closes – February 23, 2024
- Awards Conferred at the SUNY Online Summit– February 28-29, 2004, SUNY Global Center, NYC
- Poster session at SUNY CIT – May 21-24, 2024, University at Buffalo
Additionally, participants are invited to present their effective practice during National Distance Learning Week and as part of ongoing SUNY Online webinar offerings, and submit to the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
To learn more: SUNY Online Effective Practices Award
