The Daily Bulletin

The Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) has launched a collaborative initiative with the University of Central Florida (UCF) to recognize excellence in online and blended teaching practices across SUNY. The goal of this initiative is to create 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. By combining our online effective practice program with TOPR to collect and showcase online effective practices, we eliminate duplication of efforts and contribute to an already recognized national repository of effective online practices, while providing opportunities for Open SUNY online practitioners to share their effective practices on a national level.

The call for new effective practices submissions is open; entries will be accepted until Saturday, October 31. Entries should describe an online or blended teaching strategy drawn from the pedagogical practices submitted by online/blended practitioners, and include a solid description of the practice with concrete examples, relevant professional practice, or research literature and key words connecting to other practices.

Please consider submitting an entry using the submission form. Please browse the resources listed in the Quicklinks menu before submitting your entry.

Selected entries will be announced in November through TOPR and presented to the Open SUNY COTE Community for peer voting in anticipation of conferring the Open SUNY COTE Effective Practices Awards at the 2016 Open SUNY COTE Summit.

If you have questions or access difficulties, please contact contactcote@suny.edu for assistance.