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MCC Daily Tribune

Spring 2025 Virtual Campus Updates

The Virtual Campus is dedicated to providing continuous professional development opportunities for our College faculty and staff. We invite you to explore several upcoming opportunities from the Virtual Campus and SUNY, focusing on emerging trends in higher education such as Generative AI, enhancing course quality, and advancing accessibility efforts. 

Additionally, the Virtual Campus maintains a comprehensive repository within Brightspace, offering resources on instructional technology and online pedagogy. We also provided personalized support during our weekly drop-in Zoom hours. Our instructional designers are available to collaborate with you on course redesigns or to guide the development of new courses. Information for faculty can be found on our Virtual Campus Information for Faculty website with weekly support times. 

Virtual Campus Spring 2025 Support Groups

The Virtual Campus team is pleased to announce a series of support groups for all faculty and staff at the college. This semester, we will focus on two key areas:  Leveraging Generative AI in Higher Education and Empowering Instruction in a Digital World. These sessions do not require registration and are designed to accommodate your schedule. Each session will feature open discussions on the selected topics, and participants are encouraged to bring their questions. Our team will be on hand to facilitate discussions, provide valuable resources, and offer practical tips. Please email Kate Robinson if you would like to be added to our calendar invites or have further questions.  

SUNY Events

SUNY Online maintains a calendar of the many professional development opportunities available to us! Many of them are free to you!  Visit the calendar of SUNY events at a glance. 

SUNY Inclusion Quest - Webinar Series

  • Host: SUNY Office of Student Success
  • Register online for SUNY Inclusion Quest
  • Dates: February 28 (Navigating the New ADA Requirements), March 5 (Deque University), and March 6 or March 14 (Ensuring Compliance in Technology Purchasing)
  • Resources: Please review the ADA.gov Fact Sheet for additional information about the Title II ADA Ruling

SUNY Online Summit - Conference

  • Host: SUNY Online Teaching
  • Register online for SUNY Online Summit
  • Dates: February 26 through 28, 2025
  • Topics: Accessibility, AI, student online success, Brightspace, neuro-inclusive learning environments, and federal guidance and regulations. 
  • Program: Please check the SUNY Online Summit session program for specific times and dates. All sessions can be watched from the comfort of your office through Zoom.

The Virtual Campus will open our training room space for a live watch party for one of the Summit sessions.

  • Host: Virtual Campus Team
  • Date and Time: February 26, 3:45 PM to 5:45 PM
  • Topic: Accessibility Session Watch Party in the Virtual Campus
  • Title: Building an Accessibility Strategy…One Candy at a Time. The session will be presented by Kelly Herman, Vice President of Accessibility, Equity & Inclusion, University of Phoenix
  • Watch Location: 3-122 Training Room within the 3-150 suite, in person, Brighton Campus
  • Goal: This session will present an opportunity to connect with MCC colleagues on campus while watching the session on Zoom. We will provide the candy (and coffee)! 

SUNY Open Education Week- Webinar Series

  • Host: SUNY Online and SUNY OER Services
  • Registration: Registration will be forthcoming (free and virtual)
  • Dates: March 3 through 7, 2025
  • Goal: Sessions will related to topics on Open Education. Presenters from SUNY campuses showcasing their efforts around Open Education

SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) - Webinar Series

  • Host: SUNY Online Teaching
  • Register online for SUNY OSCQR
  • Dates and Times: March 12 (Become an OSCQR Reviewer), April 9 (RSI), from 12 PM to 1:30 PM
  • Goal: Sessions will focus on using the OSCQR rubric, the common rubric used for online course quality at MCC to support continuous improvement in online design and accessibility. 
  • Resources: As a reminder, an overview of the OSCQR rubric can be found on the OSCQR Website. OSCQR features 50 design and accessibility standards.

Leveraging Generative AI to Create Free and Open Educational Resources (OER) - Webinar

Deque University (Accessibility Training)

  • Host: SUNY CPD
  • Registration: Free Account Registration to access Accessibility Training
  • Goal: Ongoing online self-paced courses covering the fundamentals of web accessibility and extend to native mobile accessibility, Word Document accessibility, PDF accessibility, and special role-based accessibility topics

SUNY CIT - Conference

  • Host: SUNY CPD 
  • Registration: Registration forthcoming
  • Theme: Human-Centered Learning: Tensions, Innovations, and Inclusion in the Future of Education
  • Location: SUNY Oneonta
  • Dates: May 20 through 23, 2025
  • Visit the SUNY CIT conference website

Andrea Gilbert
Virtual Campus
02/24/2025