In the week before the semester begins, the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship offers a series of workshops and sessions designed to support teaching and learning for staff and faculty. We try to be responsive to the needs of our community as we develop our programming. If you have a suggestion for a workshop, please reach out to us at the Faculty Center (enter our name in Outlook to find our Center email address).

This spring, we partnered with Professor Matthew Unangst, Office of Equity and Inclusion Fellow, to bring you “Teaching with Universal Design for Learning.” The session shared some recent updates to CAST’s UDL guidelines and engaged participants in thinking about how to design for more accessible courses.

Tera Doty-Blance, Instructional Designer in the Faculty Center, hosted a session on “Getting Started with OSCQR.” As SUNY Oneonta develops new and exciting opportunities for online study, especially at the graduate level, the Faculty Center is here to support various modalities in virtual teaching and learning. The Open SUNY Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) facilitates that work, providing a formative, non-evaluative framework for best practices in online courses.

Other sessions included training from the Counseling Center on Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), an approach to suicide prevention, a workshop on alternatives to Discussion Board assignments, a discussion focused on updating assessment practices in the age of AI, and more.

We’re looking forward to bringing you other opportunities to think about teaching and learning this spring. Stay tuned for programming focused on civil discourse, on AI, on critical and democratic pedagogy, on Brightspace, and more! You can find out more on Campus Connection (search Faculty Opportunities) and in our monthly flyer.