LDT 835 Course Podcast

In this podcast, I am joined by Kathleen Ives, CEO and Executive Director of the Online Learning Consortium. Kathleen and I discuss the importance of professional organizations and networking throughout one's career in online learning.

In this podcast, I talk with Larry Boggess and Andrew Tatusko about Faculty Development at Penn State, and how learning designers and faculty development professionals can and should work together in their efforts to improve teaching and learning.

In this podcast, I am joined by Bill Egan, Senior Instructional Designer in World Campus Learning Design and our "Innovation Coordinator". In that role, he oversees our innovation efforts and ensures ROI and goal-alignment so that our most future-thinking investments have the greatest impact.

In this podcast, I'm joined again by Rebecca Heiser. Rebecca and I discuss how learning designers think about technology when developing courses and the messiness of this process in practice due to various factors related to the organization you work within.

Penny Ralston-Berg joins to discuss strategies for evaluating quality in design, the Quality Matters program, learning analytics, and more.

Mike Brooks, Manager of User Experience, Multimedia, and Programming, Sonya Woods, and Matt Farley, both accessibility consultants, join me to share about designing for a diverse student population. Mike, Sonya, and Matt have deep knowledge on this topic and play a critical role in just about every project that comes out of World Campus Learning Design and consult across the university.

Kelly Yamashiro is a Senior Instructional Designer in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the federal government. She discusses some of the unique aspects of doing design in a government setting such as policy and project approval and prioritization.

Anthony Robinson is the director of the Geographic Information Systems program at Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He discusses the changes in this program over time, strategies for growing the program and attracting quality students, and working with learning designers. 

Shubha is a program director with Penn State World Campus. She discusses many of the priorities she considers when engaging with an academic program and learning design organizations, with a focus on business factors such as program growth and regulations.

Rebecca Heiser is an instructional designer with Penn State World Campus' Learning Design team. She talks about her background, strategies for working with subject-matter experts, how working in a learning design organization impacts design, and how she thinks about technology and innovation.