PODLive webinars are focused online conversations among POD Network members. A facilitator starts the session, keeps participants engaged, and makes sure everyone has the chance to speak. Afterward, handouts, the recording, and a list of resources are available in the PODLive archive.
POD Network members can register for upcoming sessions below.
Facilitators: Larry Hurtubise, The Ohio State University, Elina Salminen, Washington University in St. Louis, and Jennifer Keys, Northwestern University
In this second workshop of a four-part series, participants will use the results from their Educational Developer Competency Self Assessment to consider their professional development needs, and explore programs offered through POD.
Facilitators: Wells Castonguay, Bates College; Elina Salminen, Washington University in St. Louis; Anna Donnell, University of Cincinnati
In this first workshop of a four-part series, we will begin with an introduction to the purpose, design, and development of the Educational Developer Competency Toolkit.
Facilitators: Christopher Grabau, St. Louis University; Tanya Erzen, University of Puget Sound; Elizabeth Shatswell, Senior Advisor/Research Lead, FEPPS Alum; Trip Taylor, Bridging the Divide Project Consultant
This interactive webinar will provide examples of how educational developers can partner with faculty to support teaching inside the prison and to adapt existing teaching and learning supports for the prison context.
Facilitator: Stacy Ybarra, Our Lady of the Lake University
This session offers practical strategies to shift from merely preventing AI misuse to designing for intellectual resilience, empowering students to engage with AI as a tool for critical thought rather than a shortcut to learning.
Facilitators: Sarah Lausch and Christina Nava, Boise State University
The session will introduce a framework for starting a MAP program and guide participants in creating focused MAP tracks tailored to their institution’s needs.
Facilitators: Will Miller, Naima Wells, and Claudia Cornejo Happel, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
This interactive session aims to reframe assessment as a storytelling tool that captures the full scope of a center’s contribution to faculty growth and institutional success.
Facilitators: Professional Development Committee (PDC)
This informal session, sponsored by the Professional Development Committee (PDC), is a chance to connect with your POD Network colleagues, share ideas, and offer support.
Facilitators, Kevin R. Guidry, University of Delaware; Lindsey R. Hamilton, Bates College; Jennifer Keys, Northwestern University; Jennifer B. McKanry, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Jessica A. Stansbury, University of Baltimore
In this session, attendees will learn from the experiences of educational developers at several different colleges and universities who have worked to improve how teaching is evaluated.
Facilitators: Deborah Hathaway, University of Washington Bothell; Emareena Danielles, Me Out Loud LLC; Teresa Focarile, Boise State University
This is the fourth session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this session, we will explore what to do when participants show up with a bottle of sauce and throw heat all over your plans! Using case studies, story-sharing, and discussion of trauma responsive practices, we will explore our shared repertoire, building trust in your ability to handle the unexpected.
Facilitators: Deborah Kronenberg, College Unbound; Dana Grossman Leeman, Tufts University; Rick Huizinga, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
This is the third session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this interactive workshop, we will build on our group genius to investigate the power of relationships to effective facilitation, especially with educational leaders.
Facilitators: Diana J. LaRocco, Goodwin University; Tom Laughner, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Tolu Noah, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB); Thomas J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is the second session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. To have a meaningful impact, we must be intentional about session design. In this interactive webinar, we will explore how to prepare engaging and motivating workshop experiences. Come learn what to do before your participants show up.
Facilitators: Eric Kaldor, Brown University; Megan Litster, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; Nic Voge, Princeton University
This is the first session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this first session, we focus on how framing your approach to a specific workshop around your goals and theory of change can help you be a better facilitator.
Facilitators: Sharon Ultsch, Independent Scholar; Stefanie Baier, Michigan State University, and Adriana Signorini, University of California-Merced
This interactive workshop demonstrates how educational developers can use a Critical Pedagogy Typology designed by the authors to advance more equitable and socially just practices in higher education classrooms.
Facilitators: Laura Cruz, Penn State, she/hers; Elizabeth Dickens, University of Virginia, she/hers; Anna Flaming, University of Iowa, she/hers & Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia, she/hers
In this interactive session, participants will navigate between and among four lenses through which SoED might be viewed—as a Scholarship of Practice, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Development, Scholarship of Critical Educational Development, and Scholarship of Organizational Development—ultimately looking to a vision of SoED that encompasses all of these aspects and is grounded in a distinctive form of scholarly and disciplinary dexterity.
Facilitators, POD Live! Subcommittee
This more informal session is sponsored by the Professional Development Committee (PDF) as an opportunity to connect, support, and create community with your POD Network colleagues.
Facilitators: A Nicole Pfannenstiel & Marie Firestone, Millersville University
This interactive workshop models the use of guided notes as learning supports in developing faculty professional development programming. Drawing from the evidence of the value of guided notes to support student learning, this session explores developing programming centering faculty-as-student, and how that supports adaption and adoption of teaching practices.
Facilitated by the Professional Development Committee (PDC)
This more informal session is an opportunity to connect, support, and create community with your POD Network colleagues.
Facilitator: Jennifer Askey, Professional Certified Coach
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to place yourself, your coworkers, and your clients into two or three of nine possible workplace collaborative role preferences.
Facilitators: Allison Boye, Collin College and Adam Smith, Penn State University
This roundtable creates a space for a conversation among educational developers and identifies ways to advance our values as a field in the face of challenges.
Facilitators: Tazin Daniels, University of Michigan & Larry Hurtubise, The Ohio State University
This session is intended to help educational developers connect with one another virtually and also to discuss their burning questions and the kind of support they need right now.
Facilitators: Teresa Focarile, Boise State University & Christine Denecker, University of Findlay (Ohio)
This session will provide examples of how educational developers can contribute to the training and on-going professional development of Concurrent Enrollment Instructors in order to extend the impact and success of their CTL’s work.
Friday, October 21, 2022 1–2 EST
Facilitator: David A. Green, Seattle University
This workshop addresses research conundrums many educational developers face: How do I encapsulate my research when I have crossed disciplinary boundaries? How do I explain my scholarship to outsiders? How do I reassure myself that I’m not an academic imposter? How do I choose new projects wisely?
Friday, September 23, 2022, 1:00–2:00 PM EST
Facilitators: Molly Hatcher, University of Texas at Austin & Katie Kearns, Indiana University Bloomington
This session provides space to reflect on coping strategies we as service-oriented practitioners might have developed in reaction to multi-layered crises that have unfolded since March 2020.
Friday, November 20
This session is sponsored by the POD Network Professional Development Committee as an opportunity to connect, support, and create community with your new educational development colleagues.
These open sessions are an opportunity to connect, support, and create community with your educational development colleagues. Let’s check in with one another and talk about what (and how) we are all doing during this pandemic.
Friday, July 17, 2020, 1:00–2:00 PM EST
Facilitator: Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Georgia Institute of Technology
In this interactive PODLive session, we’ll talk about the three indicators of burnout, acknowledge our stressors, and plan for ways to stay balanced and well going into the fall semester.
Friday, May 8, 2020, 1:00–2:00 PM EST
Facilitators: Milton Fuentes, Montclair State University; Isis Artze-Vega, Valencia College
This session will assist educational developers in securing an understanding of equity and adopting equity as a lens through which to examine our efforts.
Let’s take some time to talk to each other about how we are doing and share our collective wisdom on topics including diversity and inclusion in the digital context, distance learning technology resources and troubleshooting, leadership from a distance, programming disruption, and more.
As faculty developers, how do you support your faculty through a request to move traditional instruction online, particularly under tight deadlines? This PODLive session presents perspectives from two institutions on how they have been doing this.
Friday, March 6, 2020, 1-2 EST Facilitators: Catherine Haras, California State University, Los Angeles; Jonathan Iuzzini, Achieving the Dream; Emily Daniell Magruder, California State University; Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Steven C. Taylor, Wilmington University As institutional leaders use data to make informed decisions about resourcing instructional and student success efforts aligned with…
Friday, February 7, 2020, 1-2 EST Facilitators: Thomas McManus, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology; Sarah Oliver, Creighton University; and Mandy McGrew, Kennesaw State University Supporting adjunct and part-time faculty comes with several inherent roadblocks at many institutions. Identifying these obstacles is the first step in overcoming them. In this session we will begin to…
Friday, January 10, 2020, 1-2 EST Facilitators: Christina Moore and Amanda Nichols Hess, Oakland University Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework and set of guidelines that increases access to and removes barriers for learning. UDL practices include multiple ways to motivate (engage) students, present (represent) content, and offer a range of ways for…
Friday, December 13, 2019, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Susannah McGowan, Georgetown University; Peter Felten, Elon University This interactive session connects the existing literature on educational development, the emerging literature on academic hope, and our study of several hundred faculty involved in reforming gateway courses to consider how hope factors into the work of both faculty and…
Friday, October 25, 2019, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Katie Walsh, Carnegie Mellon University and Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines Surveys are a common method for collecting data in our educational development work, whether for feedback, assessment, or research purposes. How can you ensure that the questions you ask will yield the usable and meaningful data…
Friday, September 20, 2019, 1–2 EST Facilitators, Stacy Grooters and Matthew Goode, Boston College This session questions whether the goal of “inclusion” in the classroom is adequate to address the challenges posed by the current political climate. It marries two schools of thought—intercultural competence and anti-oppressive pedagogies—in order to imagine a pedagogical framework that attends…
Friday, May 24, 2019, 1-2 EST Facilitator: Thomas J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison There are many resources out there to help faculty members and instructional designers to increase students’ access to content, sense of control and choice in interactions, and level of engagement with each other, instructors, and the wider world. In this virtual roundtable…
Friday, April 26, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia and Eric Kaldor, University of Rhode Island Have you engaged in educational development research and/or assessment and want to take your work to the next level? Are you not sure how to conduct educational development research that will be meaningful for the field and…
Friday, March 22, 2019, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Esther Jordan, Kennesaw State University We all experience conflict in our lives, in our educational development work and beyond. While some of us dread it and others thrive in it, there are principles from the literature in organizational psychology and conflict management that can make our conflict engagements…
Friday, December 7, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Katie Linder, Research Director, Oregon State University Ecampus Although academic publishing can be a bit mysterious, there are some tried and true methods for getting your work placed in academic journals, edited collections, and other mediums. In this interactive webinar, Dr. Katie Linder will share strategies for targeting…
Friday, September 21, 2018 1–2 EST Facilitators: Megan Frary and Teresa Focarile, Boise State University To reach faculty that don’t regularly engage in professional development around teaching, we developed the “Sparkshop”, a 15 minute, active-learning based workshop that can be facilitated in a department meeting. Each Sparkshop asks faculty members to look at data supporting…
June 15, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Laurie Grupp, Providence College and Deandra Little, Elon University As educational developers are called upon to serve as agents of change across various campus contexts, we need to recognize the skills, characteristics, and dispositions that we bring to our work, as well as those that we can (or perhaps…
Friday, April 27, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Katie Walsh, Carnegie Mellon University and Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines Would you like to be more engaged with current education research for your own professional development or to support the work of your center? Do you need ideas about how to accomplish this task without overburdening…
April 6, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Allison Boye, Texas Tech University As educational developers, we focus on helping others, experiencing the same stressors faced by the faculty with whom we work and then some, but perhaps without enough opportunities to reflect on our own well-being. Through discussion of research, collective experience, surveys and interviews, participants…
Friday, December 8, 2017, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Brenda Boyd, Quality Matters; Anna Donnell, University of Cincinnati; Angela Linse, Pennsylvania State University Are you interested in taking some of your programming online? What is your purpose in doing an online event? Join us to explore whether an interactive webinar format may be appropriate and how we…
Friday, November 10, 2017, 1–2 EST Facilitator, Laura Cruz, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Tennessee Tech University If you are reading this description, you are likely in the field of educational development (or aspire to be). You may work in for center of teaching and learning (or similar organizational unit) or support faculty…
May 6, 2016, 1–2 pm EST Facilitators: Victoria Bhavsar and Charlotte Mundy Lieutenant Commander Charlotte Mundy will speak briefly about military vs academic cultures, acknowledging the fundamental differences and exploring similarities. She will offer thoughts on why a written leadership or command philosophy is important, the importance of knowing your own leadership style, and how…
April 8, 2016, 1–2 pm EST Facilitators: Michael Reder and Francine Glazer Using the metaphor of an orchestra conductor, we explore different ways to lead collaboratively, either within a center, in a classroom, or at an organizational level. We refer to a TED Talk by Itay Talgam, called “Lead Like the Great Conductors.” TED talk…
March 11, 2016, 1–2 pm EST Facilitators: Erik Palmore and Christine Rener What does it mean to “lead from where you are?” In this roundtable, attendees will be presented with a set of ideas that explain why leadership at all levels is needed in organizations now more than ever, and will explore examples of practical…
February 26, 2016, 1–2 pm EST Facilitators: Esther Zirbel and Susan Robison We will discuss “exemplary leadership” and what it means to you. You will receive materials prior to the session summarizing the leadership model by Kouzes and Posner. Main questions to be addressed are: How do you lead the way? How do you motivate…