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Strategies For Implementing Equitable And Quality Digital Learning Infrastructure
Session Overview
This video was part of the June 2022 REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit
Our ability to support the success of all learners within digital learning environments will require connected institutional models which seek to intentionally break down silos and walls in partnership for advancing institutional transformation. In this session, we invite you to join a group of digital learning experts as they story their work in support institutional change. They draw meaningful ties between two new and open frameworks. The first is the evidence-based “Strategies for Implementing Digital Learning Infrastructure to Support Equitable Outcomes: A Case-Based Guidebook for Institutional Leaders,” created by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities, Tyton Partners, and Every Learner Everywhere. The second is the Online Learning Consortium’s theory-based “Framework for Storying Digital Learning Change Work.” We offer these connected frameworks as foundational resources for supporting institutional change work; one framework stories the levers for digital transformation while the other provides a method for capturing what’s happening at your institution at a moment in time. Join us for a session full of storytelling and leave with new tools to collaboratively resituate and advance your local / global change work.
Speakers
Karen Vignare
Executive Director | APLU
Karen Vignare, Ph.D., M.B.A, is a strategic innovator leveraging emerging technologies to improve access, success and flexibility within higher education. As Executive Director, for the Personalized Learning Consortium at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Karen manages a network of universities committed to student success through personalization. She also oversees the adaptive courseware grant providing leadership and support to eight pioneering universities which are scaling adaptive courseware in introductory level courses.
Karen previously served as a Vice Provost, at University of Maryland University College, the largest online public open access institution where she led innovations in adaptive learning, student success and analytics. Previous to that work, she served as Director of Project Planning and Implementation for MSUGlobal at Michigan State University where she helped multiple units leverage emerging technologies in extension, non-credit programs, corporate settings, and research projects. She has published extensively on online learning, analytics, and open educational resources. She has a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University and an M.B.A from University of Rochester, William Simon Business School.
Kristen Fox
Managing Director | Tyton Partners
Kristen is a Managing Director in the strategy consulting practice at Tyton Partners. Kristen has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of higher education, digital learning and workforce development. She is a frequent author and presenter on higher education and digital learning. Kristen previously worked as a Special Advisor at Northeastern University, where she led initiatives focused on creating new pathways to recruit underrepresented students, building new models for experiential learning, developing alternative credentials, and scaling career services. Prior to that, Kristen was a Managing Vice President at Eduventures, where she worked with hundreds of institutions to develop strategy, track market trends and innovations, and build high-performing teams. Early in her career, Kristen taught undergraduate global history and writing courses at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Kristen holds a BA in International Relations and Chinese from Colgate University and a MA in International Affairs and Economic Development from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.
Angela Gunder
Chief Academic Officer | Online Learning Consortium
Angela Gunder is the Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Learning for the Online Learning Consortium, where she is responsible for gathering, curating, and leveraging the intellectual capital created by and disseminated through OLC. Her over fifteen-year career as a designer for higher education informs her leadership and design practices, where she leverages her expertise in web design, usability, visual communication, programming, and standards-based online learning.
Madeline Shellgren
Director of Community Strategy and Engagement | Online Learning Consortium
Madeline (Maddie) Shellgren is the Director of Community Strategy and Engagement for the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). In this role, she serves as a strategic leader, project manager, and relationship builder, tasked with growing the reach of the OLC’s work on a diverse portfolio of community engagement activities and initiatives. Known for her love of storytelling, play, and all things gameful, Maddie thrives on facilitating and designing meaningful ways for people to connect, learn, and grow together. Leading community building efforts both within and beyond the OLC, Maddie is committed to sustainable, equitable, and anti-oppressive ecologies within education, and leverages her interdisciplinary scholarly and professional backgrounds as she helps lead towards truly innovative and transformative models for what’s possible for online, blended, and digital engagement.
A. Michael Berman, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer | California State University, Office of the Chancellor
Michael Berman has spent nearly twenty years as an education and technology leader for the California State University, the largest and most impactful university in the United States. After about 3 years as the system CIO he will be retiring from the CSU in June to pursue his interests in music, and to launch the consulting firm Intentional Brains. He has 25 years of information technology management experience in higher education; 20+ years as the senior campus technology leader at 5 institutions of higher education. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University and has been a professor, consultant, author, and systems developer. Currently, he is outgoing Chair, Board of Directors, CENIC; past Member, EDUCAUSE Board; past Board of Directors Chair for NMC, publisher of the Horizon Report. He has published several articles and given dozens of presentations for EDUCAUSE, OLC, and other leading education and technology organizations. Berman is passionate about promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and greater gender balance in technology and leadership.
