Adrienne Phelps-Coco
Executive Director of Teaching & Learning
Workshop: Generative AI in the Classroom
About: Adrienne (she/her) provides leadership to the teaching and learning team to develop and support various approaches to online, blended and in-person learning that fosters human connection and allows faculty to meet their pedagogical goals.
Andy Hollenhorst
Digital Accessibility Consultant (HUIT)
Workshop: Creating & Presenting Accessible Slides (Powerpoint & Google Slides)
About: Andy (he/him) has been a member of the Digital Accessibility Services team since 2020. Before that, he worked as a UX researcher at Sallie Mae Bank. Andy works on various DAS projects but specializes in procurement and multimedia.
Bridget Copes
Online Course Developer
Workshop: Improv for Educators
About: Bridget (she/her) collaborates with instructors to develop online asynchronous courses. She works together with instructors to adapt course content, develop meaningful learning experiences, and create opportunities for students to engage with each other in the online, asynchronous environment. Then, she implements the course content and learning tools in Canvas.
Dustin Liu
Instructor for Applied Learning Design
Workshop: Backward Designing Your Course
About: Dustin (he/him) is an Instructor at Harvard Extension School and a Lecturer at Stanford, guiding students as they develop their own answers to the tough questions in life, education, and vocation. Outside of higher education, he is a guide and facilitator in learning communities where he designs learning experiences and curriculum. He also serves as a coach for senior leaders within organizations learning and evolving into generous and humane ways of operating through a developmental lens.
Ethan Contini-Field
Manager of Asynchronous Course Development
Workshop: Encouraging Academic Integrity in the Age of ChatGPT
About: Ethan (he/they) works with instructors to help them develop fully-online Extension School courses. Together with instructors, he considers how an all-online learning environment is similar to and different from the classroom, and brainstorms ways to adapt the course content to improve the online student's experience.
J Armstrong
Harvard Library Course Reserves Manager
Workshop: Teaching with Harvard Library Resources
About: J (she/her) and her team work across the Harvard Library system to help provide students with access to course materials. Send them a reading list for your course, and they will search library holdings for you. If the material is not already owned by the library in a digital format, they will work to purchase or digitize it, and they will post the digital content to Canvas. (Want the material to be made available at the library in a physical format instead? They can do that too—just let them know!)
Jamie Spear
Digital Accessibility Consultant (HUIT)
Workshop: Creating & Presenting Accessible Slide Decks (Powerpoint & Google Slides)
About: Jamie joined the Digital Accessibility Services team after working for several years with Harvard University Disability Resources. Her background is in teaching and training around accessibility concepts and best practices to foster an inclusive community experience at Harvard.
Jonathan Paulo
Online Learning & Reference Librarian (HES)
Workshop: Teaching with Harvard Library Resources
About: Jonathan Paulo (he/him) is the Online Learning and Reference Librarian for Harvard Extension School. He and Mary Frances work together to help Extension students, faculty and staff navigate and use the plethora of resources and tools available through the Harvard Library.
Joey Dorian
Learning Experience Designer
Workshop: Meeting Your Students Where They Are
About: Joey (he/him) works directly with faculty to reimagine, redesign, and implement courses and activities across a spectrum of formats. As a member of the Teach Partnership team, he works as a learning designer to deepen faculty engagement through creative and deliberate solutions to pedagogical, technological, and/or implementation challenges.
Karina-Lin Murphy
Manager of Faculty Development
Workshop: Generative AI in the Classroom
About: Karina (she/her) provides faculty onboarding for new instructors, pedagogical consultations, and group training. Chat with her if you are interested in learning more about teaching online, our online course formats, or just about teaching at DCE.
Sara Makiya
Manager of Learning Experience Design
Workshop: Encouraging Academic Integrity in the Age of ChatGPT
About: Sara Makiya (she/her) works with faculty to reimagine and redesign different aspects of their courses in order to deepen engagement and enrich student experience across a range of formats. Her role gives her the unique opportunity to unite her background in cognitive science and education with her passions for creative design, technology, and innovation.
Susan Goldstein
Online Education Web Conference Consultant
Workshop: Synchronous and Asynchronous Students in Harmony
About: Susan (she/her) guides faculty through the process of teaching their first web conference course. Let her know if you’re thinking about teaching a class via web conference or if you’d like to discuss ways to enhance your current web conference course.
Sarah Ledoux
Manager of Instructional Technologies
Workshop: Making Your Canvas Sites Accessible
About: Sarah (she/her) leads a team of instructional technologists working with faculty using a broad range of tools to enhance the learning experience. She serves as a liaison between DCE and the rest of the Harvard community as new tools and strategies evolve and are tested, helping to ensure that the tools are developed and deployed in a way that best suits course content and meets the needs of both DCE instructors and students.
Zahra Ahmed
Faculty Development Specialist
Workshop: Facilitating Engagement with Sensitive Topics
About: Zahra (she/her) leads and designs faculty trainings on pedagogy and practices for online and in-person teaching. She is passionate about cultivating communities of practice for faculty to connect, share, and grow. She launched the Inclusive Teaching Institute, a learning community open to faculty and teaching staff University-wide where she has implemented 2 faculty fellowship models, including an instructor-led professional learning model and an instructor peer learning group model.