FRCAE This Week (9/15-9/19)

For the week of 9/15-9/19, FRCAE has several professional development opportunities you can take part in. Check them out!

9/15–SUNY Presents: Distance Learning Leadership Certificate
The Distance Learning Leaders Certificate Program equips professionals with the expertise to serve as Chief Online Learning Officers (COLOs) and effectively manage distance learning initiatives in higher education. This rigorous program challenges participants to apply distance learning theories, instructional design principles, emerging technologies, and best practices for online education leadership within their unique institutional contexts.

Participants will cultivate collaboration, change management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance skills while exploring strategies to influence, drive innovation, and enhance the effectiveness of distance education.

You can register for this program by clicking on the event page here.

9/16, 9:00am–SUNY Presents: Lumi Training
SUNY Online is offering a repeating schedule of workshops to introduce faculty to the new Lumi tool in Brightspace. This is an AI tool embedded in Brightspace that is currently available only to our faculty. To Register

9/16, 2:30pm–Online Learning Workshop
This session will cover Brightspace Basics, showing you how to navigate Brightspace, create course structure, create modules, upload files, communicate, and more! Zoom Link

9/17, 11:00am–SUNY Online Presents AI Prompting for Educators
AI Prompting for Educators is a presentation designed to share ways you can interact with AI to get better results. As an educator, you can use AI to help you create and improve handouts, activities, and assessments to enhance your classroom.  We’ll investigate prompt structures that help you get the results you want.

More Information / To Register

9/17, 1:00pm–Advising Workshop (Repeat of 9/11 program)
The Student Success Center is running a series of workshops all about advising. This overview session is geared toward new faculty and new advisors. Teams Link

9/17, 2:30pm–Online Learning Workshop (Repeat of 9/16 program)
This session will cover Brightspace Basics, showing you how to navigate Brightspace, create course structure, create modules, upload files, communicate, and more! Zoom Link

9/18, 12:30pm–Reading Matters
Suzanne Buffamanti leads a discussion on the latest reading selection, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. Join us for good conversation and treats!

9/18, 3:00pm–New Faculty Orientation Workshop
This session will introduce you to the Library and our Academic Center for Excellence. Come learn about all the services they have to offer! Teams Link