Wichita State IDA

Kerry Wilks, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, came by the podcast to discuss accommodating the needs of graduate students in 500 and 600 level classes.

Dive Deeper: Learn more about specific guidance for this process from these IDT resources

Amy Chesser and Wendy Dusenbury from College of Health Professions and the Online Faculty Fellows program talk with Carolyn about the importance of centralizing student questions in an online class.

Carolyn Speer and John Jones are in lovely downtown Minneapolis at the WCET conference. Listen in as they talk about their experience in the first two days, regulatory issues, the “word of the day” (spoiler alert, it’s “iteration”), and also share what keeps them up at night.

John Jones, Director of the Media Resources Center, joins the podcast to share information about changes coming to the wichita.edu website.

Dr. Mark Schneegurt from Biology dropped in to discuss his new OpenStax.org textbook. Did you know that many general education courses, as well as higher level ones, have free text books available? Mark has been writing texts for more traditional publishers for about 15 years and has recently joined the “OER Revolution” with this text offering.

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Our newest Instructional Designer, Michael Cole, gets his first interview with Carolyn! Learn more about Michael and get updates on the latest in the IDT in this episode!

Related posts:

* UI9 – Dr. John Perry, Textbooks, and OER

* UI6 – Meet the Team: Taylor and Torie

* UI26 – Dr. Vinod Namboodiri on Delivery Modes

* UI2: Social Media and Instruction

* UI10 – Introducing Our New Manager of Instructional Design and Technology

* UI34 – Amy Chesser & Wendy Dusenbury Discuss Discussions

* UI7 – Dr. Mark Porcaro and Parity

* Podcast Episodes

* UI8 – Dr. Amy Drassen Ham & Jeff Pulaski Discuss Online Faculty Fellows and Quality Matters

* UI19 – Dr. Danny Bergman on Authenticity in Online and Face-to-Face Discussions

Carolyn sits down with the university’s Senior Educational Technologist, Jay Castor to discuss the LMS review. – Spoiler Alert! – They tell you how to get access to the “sandboxes” for all of the LMS instances that are being evaluated by the university LMS committee.

In this episode of Unknown Issues, John Jones is joined by Kerry Jones, an instructor from the English department and Director of the Writing Center. Kerry and John talk about the transition to teaching online, social presence, and the new online writing center at Wichita State.

This might be Carolyn’s favorite podcast interview!

Dr. Roy Myose talks about issues of attendance in classes when there are video lectures available online. Call it “flipped” or “hybrid,” Dr. Myose’s content delivery model is becoming more common at WSU and around the country, but what are the unintended consequences of giving this kind of access to content?

Dr. Vinod Namboodiri and Carolyn discuss the pros and cons of three class delivery methods: online, hybrid, and face-to-face. Find out what Dr. Namboodiri would choose if he had to pick just one of those for his own teaching!