Forthcoming Work

Speaking, Workshops, and Courses

2025

  • Mar 13, 2025. "Practical Tips for Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning." Invited keynote. UDL Institute. Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Polytechnic Institute.
  • Mar 13-27, 2025. Faculty member. "Approaching-Expert Universal Design for Learning." EDUCAUSE Learning Lab series.
  • Mar 27, 2025. "Understanding the New UDL 3.0 Guidelines." Invited presentation. With Lillian Nave and Jennifer Pusateri. Accessibility and Disability Special Interest Group (AD-SIG). College Station, TX: POD Network.
  • Mar 31, 2025. [recording date]. "Understanding the New UDL 3.0 Guidelines." Invited guest. With Lillian Nave and Jennifer Pusateri. Tea for Teaching podcast. Oswego, NY: SUNY Oswego.
  • Apr 4, 2025. "Universal Design for Learning as an Institutional-Transformation Catalyst." San Juan, PR: AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS).
  • Apr 16, 2025. "Six Design and Teaching Secrets . . . That They Never Shared in Grad School." Invited keynote. Philadelphia, PA: Peirce College.
  • Apr 29, 2025. Invited speaker. Renegade Book Club Ask-the-Author Session. Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield College.
  • 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 20, 2025. [in negotiation]. "Reach Your Students and Reduce Your Workload." Invited keynote. Faculty Summer Institute. Centralia, IL: Kaskaskia College.
  • Jun 8, 2025. "Beyond Asynchrony: Markers of Quality Technology-Mediated Teaching." Invited presentation. Teaching Professor conference. Washington, DC: Magna Publications.
  • 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.
  • Jul 22-23, 2025. [proposed]. "UDL from Courses to Programs: A How-to-Scale-Up Workshop." Washington, DC: UDL-Con International conference.
  • Sep 24, 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 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.
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. [submitted]. "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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