July 2021 SUNY Online Digest

This month's updates from SUNY Online:

• SUNY Online Digest: July 2021 
  

I think the most interesting item is the announcement of a workgroup that will explore how new federal requirements around the need for distance education courses to involve regular and substantive interaction between students and instructors fit within the framework of the OSCQR rubric.  If your campus has increased your offering of distance education classes long-term as a result of responding the pandemic, this is a topic that someone on your campus will probably be interested in.  Showing how distance education courses on your campus meet this requirement for regular and substantive student/instructor interaction will need to be a part of any campus accreditation self-study going forward.
SUNY Online is also looking for exemplar online courses that can be used as models for observation by instructors who are new to online course design and teaching.