Forthcoming Work
Speaking, Workshops, and Courses
2025
- Apr 29, 2025. Invited speaker. Renegade Book Club Ask-the-Author Session. Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield College.
- Apr 29, 2025. Invited speaker. School of Education Faculty Reading Community Ask-the-Author Session. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University.
- May 1, 2025. [in negotiation]. "The Evolution of Technology-Mediated Teaching Evaluation." Invited guest. Futures in Digital Learning podcast. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.
- May 6, 2025. Invited speaker. UDL Book Club Ask-the-Author Session. Center for Teaching and Learning. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
- May 16 & 27, 2025. "Equity by Design: Teaching Practices for Inclusive Excellence." Invited webinar series. Tübingen, Germany: Hochschul Didaktik Zentrum (HDZ) Universitäten Baden-Württemburg.
- May 20, 2025. "How Universal Design for Learning Takes Work off Your Plate (and Helps Students, Too)." Invited keynote. Albany, NY: Russell Sage College.
- May 21, 2025. "Reach Your Students and Reduce Your Workload." Invited keynote. Faculty Summer Institute. Centralia, IL: Kaskaskia College.
- May 28, 2025. "Understanding the New UDL 3.0 Guidelines." Invited guest. With Lillian Nave and Jennifer Pusateri. Tea for Teaching podcast. Oswego, NY: SUNY Oswego.
- Jun 8, 2025. "Beyond Asynchrony: Markers of Quality Technology-Mediated Teaching." Invited presentation. Teaching Professor conference. Washington, DC: Magna Publications.
- Jun 11, 2025. "How to Reach Your Learners When They're Learning." Invited keynote. Pedagogies of Digital Delivery conference. Kelowna, BC: Okanagan College.
- Jun 17, 2025. "Current Issues in Higher Education and Educational Development." With Stacy Grooters. Invited faculty member. Institute for New Educational Developers (INED). San Bernardino, CA: Professional and Organizational Develompment (POD) Network.
- Jun 19, 2025. "Universal Design to Address Neurodiversity and Different Life Situations." With Gloria Niles. Invited faculty member. Institute for New Educational Developers (INED). San Bernardino, CA: Professional and Organizational Develompment (POD) Network.
- Jun 20, 2025. "Reviewing the Adventure and Thinking of Places to Go." With Whitney Scott. Invited plenary address. Institute for New Educational Developers (INED). San Bernardino, CA: Professional and Organizational Develompment (POD) Network.
- Jun 24, 2025. [proposed]. "Sneaky Inclusive Design, or, How to Be Inclusive When You Can't Say 'Inclusion." 2nd annual Virtual Gathering. Leading with our Values: Community as Resistance.
- Aug 4 amp; 6, 2025. [in negotiation]. "Getting Everyone on Board for Digital Accessibility." Invited case study. Centering Accessibility in Teaching and Learning Symposium. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE.
- Aug 13, 2025. [in negotiation]. "Beyond the Basics: Advanced Inclusive Online Design Techniques." Invited keynote. Title III Professionla Development series. Wichita, KS: Newman University.
- Sep 17, 2025. "Beyond the Guidelines: Uninversal Design for Learning Strategy-Development Meta-Pathways." Invited webinar. Universal Design for Learning: 9 in 9 webinar series. East Hartford, CT: Goodwin University.
- Sep 26, 2025. "How to Keep More Neurodivergent Learners and Reduce Your Workload, Too: Designing Accessible Learning Engagements." Invited Keynote. Premium Open Lecture series. Port of Spain, Trinidad: University of the West Indies.
- Sep 30, 2025. "Three Ways to Take Work off Your Plate." Invited keynote. Interprofessional Academy of Educators InnovatEd Symposium. Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Medical Center.
- Oct 8, 2025. "Online Design with Universal Design for Learning that Reduces Your Workload." Invited keynote. Open Doors/Open Minds: Innovating Learner-Centered Education through Intentional Course Design. 3nd Annual unDistance Learning Conference. Decatur, GA: Georgia State University Perimeter College.
- Oct 17, 2025. "Secret Champion Training: How to Talk to Colleagues about Inclusive Teaching." Oktoberbest Symposium on Teaching. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.
- Oct 21, 2025. "Universal Design for Learning and AI-Resistant Assessments." With Marcus Popetz. Invited webinar. Boulder, CO: Harmonize Learning.
- Oct 27, 2025. "Using Universal Design for Learning to Balance Academic Freedom against Predictabile Systems." Invited keynote. Celebrating Distance Teaching and Learning Symposium. Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Oct 28-30, 2025. [proposed]. "Scaling Smart: How Universal Design for Learning Makes 291+ Higher-Ed IT Roles More Efficient." With Jinrong "Pearl" Xie. Nashville, TN: EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
- Nov 12, 2025. "How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Support Universal Design for Learning." Invited webinar. Great Falls, VA: HigherEd+.
- Nov 19, 2025. [proposed]. "Designing a High-Trust Peer Observation Program." Pre-conference workshop. With Lauren Barbeau, Claudia Cornejo-Happel, and Marguerite Regan. San Diego, CA: Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network Annual Conference.
- Nov 21, 2025. [proposed]. "The Futures of Writing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Special Interest Group (SIG). San Diego, CA: Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network Annual Conference.
2026
- Jan 12-27, 2026. Faculty member. "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Information-Technology Professionals." EDUCAUSE Learning Lab series.
Research, Grants, Publications, Interviews, & Project Work
2025
- TBD Fall 2025. [in development]. "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Project Management." With Christopher Hromalik. International Journal of Project Management.
2026
- Expected Spring 2026. UDL at Scale: Adopting Universal Design for Learning across Higher Education. Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed series. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
- TBD Summer 2026. [under contract]. Evaluating Teaching in the Digital Era. With Ann H. Taylor and B. Jean Mandernach. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2027
- TBD Spring 2027. [under contract]. Peer Observation Made Practical for Higher Education: Building Programs, Tools, and Cultures that Foster Teaching Excellence. With Lauren Barbeau & Claudia Cornejo Happel. London, UK: Routledge.
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