Instructional Design

Instructional Design at SUNY Ulster is here to inspire, encourage, and support our faculty who are looking for ways to make learning more dynamic for our students. We provide our faculty with tools, development opportunities, and consultation services. We also work closely with the Learning Center, the Library, OIT, The SUNY Learning Network to provide a coordinated array of support for our faculty.

TRAINING

Instructional Design provides a variety of training to all faculty.

Orientation to SUNY Ulster resources.
Aides for instruction in class and between classes.
Software how to forums, hands on instruction to the Do’s and Don’ts, great examples
Curriculum Development for a face to face, hybrid or online course…

WORKSHOPS

Instructional Design hosts a medley of different types of workshops:

- On Demand Workshops
Individually requested or tailored for your department, or program, we will focus on a plethora of needs of the faculty from pedagogic concerns to learning the latest tech tool to reconfiguring a face to face course for a hybrid or fully online environment.

- Brown Bag Forums and Conferences
We also host every month two faculty forums.
One focuses on new tools and hot topics.
The second focuses on best practices as demonstrated by fellow faculty members.

- FAQs about Teaching and Using Technology
This will be an on-going forum for learning the good, bad and ugly of instructional design and using tech tools.

BLENDED LEARNING at SUNY Ulster

Hybrid courses are courses in which a significant portion of the learning activities have been moved online, and time traditionally spent in the classroom is reduced but not eliminated. The goal of hybrid courses is to join the best features of in-class teaching with the best features of online learning to promote active independent learning and reduce class seat time.

Using computer-based technologies, instructors use the hybrid model to redesign some lecture or lab content into new online learning activities, such as case studies, tutorials, self-testing exercises, simulations, and online group collaborations.

ONLINE LEARNING at SUNY Ulster

Major advances in technology have created new educational models. Online education has flourished in the last decade, and as its popularity grows, so does the need to establish educational standards. With SUNY Ulster’s Instructional Design, you will explore different pedagogies and their applicability to real online environments. We will assist you on how to create online communities that are conducive to learning, how to manage complex projects, and how to effectively apply best practices in online course creation.