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Upcoming Teaching Institutes and Workshops

Upcoming programming opportunities to help faculty design Fall 2020 courses. Look for more announcements from the TLTC about SUNY and Purchase programs in the coming weeks!

SUNY Remote Teaching Institute: Teaching & Learning in the Age of COVID-19

SUNY Remote Teaching Institute: Teaching & Learning in the Age of COVID-19

This free institute from the SUNY Center for Professional Development and campuses across the system is designed to help faculty prepare for what will likely be a challenging Fall 2020 semester. There will be a series of webinars June 22-26 to kick off the institute, followed by asynchronous resource sharing, collaboration, and mentoring through August. Registration is available for individual webinars or the entire series. Specific details about the Practical Web Design webinars is now available. More information at the SUNY Remote Teaching Institute (SUNY RTI) website.

SUNY COIL Center summer courses

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Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses are a proven way to engage students in online learning, and with current travel restrictions may be the principle way we can provide intercultural experiences to our students. In a COIL course, your class and a partner class from a different culture collaborate on learning activities that support the two courses. See the free, self-paced COIL Essentials workshop for more details.

The SUNY COIL Center is offering several sessions of their COIL Foundations and COIL Design courses this summer. COIL Foundations is for faculty who are interested in learning more about COIL and how they can apply this model to their courses. COIL Design is for those faculty who have identified a partner, and takes the two faculty through the COIL design process. You can register for these courses at the COIL Professional Development Registration page. (Purchase faculty should use the payment code PURC.)

  • COIL Foundations sessions: 8 June – 26 June; 9 July – 30 July; or 10 August – 28 August
  • COIL Design sessions: 8 June – 26 June; 9 July – 30 July; or 10 August – 28 August

Quality by Design

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Quality by Design (QbD) is a four-week online course from SUNY that provides a unique opportunity for faculty and staff to improve courses through a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of seated, online or hybrid courses. QbD focuses on four major topics that are a key component of any quality designed course, including: Learner Support; Content Presentation & Accessibility; Interaction & Collaboration; Evaluation & Assessment.

The next course begins on Monday, September 28, 2020 and runs for 4 weeks. The course is asynchronous through Blackboard Learn 9.1. Register here.

TLTC Workshops

Using the Zoom activity in Moodle, June 8 (M), 4:00-4:45: The Zoom external tool in Moodle allows you to schedule course-related Zoom sessions from within your Moodle course, and provides a convenient way for you to provide secure access to your course Zoom sessions directly to your students through Moodle. Watch the session recording (coming soon) and check out our Zoom Integration in Moodle directions to learn how to manage and run Zoom sessions from your Moodle course. Watch the recording on YouTube!

Engaging students with course readings, using Perusall in Moodle, June 16 (T), 4:00-4:45: Social annotation allows students to collaborate on highlighting and annotating course readings, respond in the text to questions that you may pose, and helps to engage students with course readings whether you are teaching online, face to face, or providing remote instruction. Perusall is a project that started at Harvard University, which provides a full-featured platform to support social annotation in our courses. Watch the recording on YouTube!

Upcoming TLTC Workshops

Check our TLTC Events page to see upcoming workshops and other programming as they are added to the schedule. You can also watch past workshop recordings at our TLTC YouTube channel. If you have ideas for workshops that you would like us to provide, or topics that you would be interested in facilitating, please let us know at TLTC@purchase.edu.