UBlearns Workshop/Webinar Series
The Office of Instructional Design & Development will be hosting a series of workshops that can be attended in person or virtually via webinar. Bring your laptop and work along…
Did you know: GSE Course Template
Did you know that GSE offers a 14 Unit Course Template in UBlearns which is available to all faculty? The Course Template is designed and set up to reflect…
Pre-semester Procedures: Is your online course ready for Summer?
We are about a month away from the start of the Summer 2018 semester, and now is the time to start checking off those tasks that come with preparing your…
Accessibility Checklist
Accessibility is a pressing topic in online education. How do we present our content in a way that is universally accessible to all of our students, regardless of their learning…
Synchronous Online Sessions
For synchronous online sessions, GSE has both Blackboard Collaborate and Skype for Business available for faculty/student use: To Use Blackboard Collaborate Step 1: Schedule your Collaborate session through GSE: View…
Video Recording Options: Recording Lectures for Online Instruction
UB and GSE offer a few “free” (no cost to faculty/staff) video recording options for faculty to record lectures, introductions, and other videos for online delivery. The options may differ based…
OER Initiative at UB
UB OER (Open Educational Resources) Initiative Fall 2017-Summer 2018 Faculty that teach a large-enrollment (at least 50 students) undergraduate course and… • Use 100% OER content get $3,000 stipend (for…
Snipbot: Plagiarism and paraphrasing software
The ongoing battle of plagiarism rages on at all levels of education. For as many plagiarism checkers that are out there and for the vast number of sources they are…
OLC Effective Practice Awards
The current round of submissions for OLC’s Effective Practice Awards is open until September 12, 2017. UB, along with a number of other SUNY institutions, was named in a proposal…
Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS) – available webinars
Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS) is a webinar series in which higher ed educators share tips and best practices. To register and see the selection of upcoming webinars, please…