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Webinar Leaders: Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle
Date of Webinar: June 7th, 2024
In 2015, Potts, et. al. wrote about the creation of the Experience Architecture program at Michigan State University, where they stated their goal was to teach how we can become “architects of digital experiences” and “positively influence the ways in which we have traditionally built products and services by focusing on human experience first instead of technology.” In 2009, Jesse James Garrett noted that “Experience Design is the design of anything independent or across media with human experience as the explicit outcome and human engagement as the explicit goal” (qtd. in Cummings, 2009). Garrett constructs a bridge between experience and engagement for learning experience designers to begin to think beyond just student experience with course content, but also student engagement.
Our workshop will focus on these concepts of being an architect of digital experiences and constructing bridges that keep content and human experience and engagement as the goal. In keeping this focus, we will begin with a discussion of definitions and terminology to orient attendees to the language and systems that exist within Learning Experience Design (LXD), Experience Architecture (XA), and accessibility. We will explore the breakdown of LXD and User Experience (UX) under the umbrella of Experience Architecture and how these roles can exist and thrive within academic spaces. The workshop will also connect LXD to engagement in terms of getting students to engage with course content and learning outcomes. We will help our attendees understand and explore how engagement gets people to stay, learn, focus, and connect.
Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle are leaders in online writing instruction, distance education, and user experience research. They are also founding members of GSOLE. Together, in 2015, they co-created a resources website and community for online writing instructors called The Online Writing Instruction Community (www.owicommunity.org). They have co-authored three books based on their PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) framework: 2019’s Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (winner of the 2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award), 2021’s PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors, and 2023’s PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders. They host workshops on online writing instruction and creating and managing accessible online courses and programs. They are available for hire through their online form: https://www.owicommunity.org/work-with-us.html
Webinar Leaders: Tiffany Bourelle, Mitch Marty, Joseph Bartolotta
Date of Webinar: April 26th, 2024
Dr. Joseph Bartolotta is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University. He holds a PhD in Rhetoric & Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota.
Mitch Marty is a writer and photographer from rural Wisconsin, who teaches as an Adjunct Professor with the Department of English and works as an Instructional Designer with the Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of New Mexico. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico.
Tiffany Bourelle teaches multimodal composition and professional writing at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Her work focuses on enhancing pedagogy through multimodal composition in face-to-face and online formats. She created and oversees an online writing program called eComp at UNM, and has been published in such journals as Computers and Composition, The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and WPA: Writing Program Administration.
Webinar Leaders: Jazzie Terrell
Date of Webinar: January 26th, 2024
Jazzie Terrell (they/them/elle) is a skilled researcher focusing on communal, activist, feminist rhetoric, disability studies, and gender/women's studies. Their expertise includes mixed-methods data analysis, archival research, sociocultural rhetorical praxis, and queer phenomenology, with an ongoing IRB-approved project on digital communal collaboration in first-year composition. They also prioritize feminist rhetorical theory, antiracist writing assessment, and accessibility in teaching, aiming to create an equitable and joyful learning environment.
Webinar Leaders: Mary-Lourdes Silva
Date of Webinar: November 10, 2023
Mary-Lourdes Silva (she/her) is Associate Professor of Writing and Director of First-Year Writing at Ithaca College. She received a PhD in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies from UC, Santa Barbara, as well as her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Fresno State. Her past and current research examines the citation practices of first-year college writing students; pedagogical use of multimodal and multimedia technologies and practices; implementation of institutional ePortfolio assessment; gender/race bias in education; movement-touch literacy as a modality to teach reflective thinking in first-year writing; and the psychological and financial implications of faculty compelled to review biased student evaluations of teaching. She is also a community organizer and teacher in the upstate New York Argentine tango community.