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Colleagues,
The Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) has launched an initiative to collaborate 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). We will leverage TOPR as the framework for our Open SUNY COTE Effective Practices Award program. 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.
To that end, we are very pleased to announce a collaborative call for new effective practices submissions. New entries will be accepted until October 31, 2015. 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 example(s), relevant professional practice, or research literature, and key words connecting to other practices.
Selected entries will be announced in November 2015 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.
Please consider submitting an entry using the submission form at: http://bit.ly/topr_submission
We encourage you to browse the resources listed in the Quicklinks menu to the left before submitting your entry.
If you have any questions, or access difficulties, please contact [email protected] for assistance.
Warm regards,
The Open SUNY COTE Team |
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