SUNY Online Spring Webinar Series
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Title: Leveraging Brightspace as an Instructor
Date: January 27, 2026
Time: 2:00-3:00PM EST
Presenter: Allene Slating, SUNY Online Teaching Senior Instructional Designer and Jamie Heron, SUNY Online Program Manager
Description: Discover practical strategies and easy tools to make the most of Brightspace as an instructor. This session will cover essential navigation techniques, effective course management tools, and tips for content creation and personalization. Whether you’re new to Brightspace or looking to refine your skills, this training will help you set up and manage courses to enhance usability for both students and instructors.
Title: Accessible Course Content Checklist
Date: February 4, 2026
Time: 1:00-2:00PM EST
Presenter: Allene Slating, Senior Instructional Designer, SUNY Online
Description: Are you an instructional designer, faculty member, or anyone involved in creating accessible course content? Join us for a webinar on how to use an optional accessibility checklist to help ensure your digital materials are accessible to all learners.
In this session, we will:
- Introduce and review the optional Accessible Course Content Checklist
- Demonstrate how it can be applied to a course or adapted to meet specific campus needs
- Highlight important points and tips for creating accessible digital content
Title: Science of Learning in Distance Education
Date: February 12, 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00PM EST
Presenters: Dr. Karen Caldwell, SUNY Potsdam
Description: Applying the science of learning to distance education means that learners engage in active “meaning making” and reciprocal collaborative activities. The presenter will share two powerful strategies – dual coding (drawing) and Chi’s ICAP learning theory – that she implements in her fully online, asynchronous courses.
Title: Enhancing Teaching with AI
Date: March 18, 2026
Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM EST
Presenter: Trevor Johnson-Steigelman, Associate Professor of Physics, Finger Lakes Community College
Description: The sudden appearance of powerful AI creation tools has caused many concerns, but it has also provided opportunities for educators to enhance their teaching.
In this presentation, we’ll use generative AI to get you into a learner mindset, give you ideas to motivate students, and help you build new and creative assignments.