WCET Frontiers Pod: Recent Episodes
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A new podcast for you to hear from the WCET team, featured guest hosts, and exciting interviewees talk about solutions and innovations in the practice and policy of digital learning in higher education.
On this episode of Frontiers, host Lindsey Downs and a surprise co-host learn about the amazing career and life journey of the new Director of Every Learner Everywhere. They chat about the impact of Open Education, especially on student engagement and success, the importance of music, and learn a little bit more about spiders.
Over the past several months WCET has been working in the area of digital learning definitions. Today host Lindsey Downs discusses a new report from WCET and Nicole Johnson about the lack of clarity regarding the terms surrounding course modalities, such as online, totally online, fully online, 100% online... do these all mean the same? Or something different? This lack of clear definitions challenges students who just want to know how to successfully complete their coursework, where to be to take their class, and what tech they need to use.
The report is live and available now https://wcet.wiche.edu/resources/what-to-do-when-the-modality-of-a-learning-experien[…]uidelines-for-creating-multidimensional-learning-experiences/
In this episode, Frontiers pod host Lindsey Downs chats with Darcy Hardy, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with Anthology, about ASWE - the Annual Summit for Women in eLearning (formerly IFWE). Lindsey and Darcy discussed the evolution from IFWE to ASWE, the benefits of attending the ASWE events and how life changing mentoring and connection can be, plus details on the ASWE Evolve event in collaboration with this year’s WCET Annual Meeting.
Each year WCET honors two individuals during our award season with the Dick Jonsen and Mollie McGill Award and the Sally M. Johnstone Award. Join host Lindsey Downs as she interviews WCET Award winners Tina Parscal and Erika Swain on their professional journeys, lessons learned over their careers, and new things they have learned recently.
In this episode, host Lindsey Downs discusses Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign project, which recently won one of the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Awards. The projects Instructional Designer, Di Wu, and the course Instructor, Nate Wilson, chat with Lindsey about the inspiration behind the redesign, working a local tribal expert to ensure cultural authenticity, and what they’ve all been learning in the last month.
In our season two opener for the WCET Frontiers Pod, Lindsey Downs chats with Dr. Mordecai Brownlee, President of the Community College of Aurora in CO about what led him to his current role, important lessons he’s learned, and productivity hacks for today’s higher ed workforce.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Denise Castro, Policy Analyst at The Education Trust-West for a discussion about equity in math classes.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Laura Som, MAYE Center Founder & Director and Healing and Health Promotion Instructor, for a conversation about nature as a lab for students and the importance of context and community to help connect students to science and it's real-world applications. The discussion also touches on Laura's incredible journey and inspiring perseverance.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Michael Mendez, Assistant Professor with the School of Social Ecology, in the department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UC-Irvine, for a conversation about embedding social justice issues into coursework and engaging students in policy at the local, state, and national level.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie, Director, Center for Statistical Consulting - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences for a conversation about the intersection of education, science, politics, and society and how misinformation speaks to the need of education around the critical evaluation of information. Dr. Ricks-Oddie is a passionate educator who is walking the walk and diving into local politics to ensure that the communities that are impacted by policy decisions are part of the conversations.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Lisa Martin-Hansen, Professor and Department Head, California State University, Long Beach for a conversation about falling in and out of love with science as a young girl and the stumbling into a lifelong passion for science through general education college courses. The two also discuss the social justice impacts of climate change and the environment.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Patrice Prusko, Director, Learning Design at Harvard, for a conversation about creating community in online and hybrid courses and keeping students engaged throughout their journey. Patrice talks about how research about trauma-informed teaching and inclusion efforts supported course design and professors during the pandemic and beyond. The two also discuss effective teaching and learning tools including using Slack for communication and collaboration.
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Evangeline Tsibris Cummings, Assistant Provost and Director of UF Online, University of Florida, for a fun conversation about virtual labs in higher education.