OTTER Institute 2025
Online Teaching: Technology & Educational Resources
Digital Accessibility Edition!
OTTER Institute 2025
Online Teaching: Technology & Educational Resources
Digital Accessibility Edition!
The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) OTTER Institute is an opportunity for online practitioners, regardless of teaching modality or experience, to learn more about online education’s innovations, trends, and challenges. This year OTTER will focus on digital accessibility.
The OTTER Institute is FREE to all SUNY campus members. For Non-SUNY Members, there is a $25.00 flat fee.
The webinars will be recorded and shared with participants at the conclusion of OTTER 2024.
Institute Agenda & Registration
Institute Agenda & Registration
OTTER Institute 2025: June 2nd – August 22nd, 2025
- OTTER Day 1: June 2, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Why accessibility matters and Developing a plan for content creation & modification
- OTTER Day 2: June 3, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Top 10 accessibility issues: how to identify accessibility issues and options for remediation.
- OTTER Day 3: June 4, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Brightspace accessibility tools for easier content creation.
- OTTER Day 4: June 5, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Style guides and generating accessible and usable course materials.
- OTTER Day 5: June 6, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Student panel on accessibility.
- OTTER Day 6: August 18, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Effective disability statements and policies in your classroom: creating an inclusive environment.
- OTTER Day 7: August 19, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Communicating effectively: creating an inclusive environment for communicating with students.
- OTTER Day 8: August 20, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Challenging conversations: moderating challenging discussions (online or f2f) with students.
- OTTER Day 9: August 21, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Ready for the new semester: checklist and strategies to be prepared for the start of the new semester.
- OTTER Day 10: August 22, 2025 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Student panel on accessibility
Meet the Presenter(s)
Jamie Heron, SUNY Online Program Manager
Jamie is an instructional designer with 20 years of online teaching experience, spanning 7 different learning management systems. She has conducted hundreds of workshops designed to assist faculty in acquiring the skills necessary to effectively use a new learning management system and to successfully migrate their materials (e.g., WebCT, ANGEL, Blackboard). Jamie creates an engaging training experience, emphasizing the benefits and efficiencies of the Brightspace teaching environment, while maintaining a sensitivity to the individual needs and concerns of her workshop participants.
Contact Us
For programming questions, please contact Jamie Heron, jamie.heron@suny.edu, SUNY Online Program Manager. For registration questions, please contact Meghan Martin, meghan.martin@suny.edu, Program Coordinator, SUNY CPD.
Past OTTER Institute Recordings:
The recordings for the OTTER Institute 2023 can be found on the DLE website, and in the companion Brightspace course. The recordings are housed behind authentication; please log in using your SUNY Federated campus login/credentials (this is typically your campus email and password that you use to access your campus computer/media station)
The recordings for the OTTER Institute 2022 can be found on the DLE website. The recordings are housed behind authentication; please log in using your SUNY Federated campus login/credentials (this is typically your campus email and password that you use to access your campus computer/media station)