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Marina Tokman is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Center for Teaching Innovation assisting faculty in their use of technologies for teaching. Marina’s experience with academic technologies includes multimedia lesson development, online course development as well as supporting user experience in an online learning environment.

 Marina has worked with faculty who pioneered use of peer assessments at Cornell. She consulted on the feature criteria for the tool evaluation and supported faculty through the pilot program. She can be reached at mt243@cornell.edu

Ksenia Ionova is an Instructional Designer in the Center for Teaching Innovation, providing support to Cornell faculty with a focus on learning pedagogies and technologies used to enhance student engagement, group and peer learning experiences and has been leading the peer review pilot initiative across campus. Prior to Cornell, Ksenia taught in-person and online helping international students and professionals gain necessary language, communication, and academic skills to transition to new educational contexts in Europe and Asia.

Linda J. Lee is the Director of Instructional Design, where she leads training and instructional design efforts for the IDEA Courseware Team at the Wharton School. An expert in teaching with technology, Linda enjoys helping teaching teams adapt their learning activities and assessments to Wharton’s supported platforms. Linda is also a part-time lecturer for Penn’s School of Liberal and Professional Studies, where she teaches online and face-to-face Folklore courses.

Camilo is an Instructional Designer at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies (SPS). Camilo has been with the team since February of 2020. Prior to SPS Camilo Irizarry was an Instructional Designer at New York University's Center for Academic Excellence and Support. Camilo has worked with faculty on course redesigns, instructional support, and various faculty development workshops, helping to improve the learning experience for both students and faculty. Most recently Camilo has been working with the Wealth Management Program to develop a fully online asynchronous Masters program.

Cassie Scannella is an Instructional Designer for Columbia University's School of Professional Studies (SPS). Cassie earned her Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Adult Education and Training, from Point Park University. Cassie has worked for Suffolk University as an Educational Development Specialist. She also worked as a consultant for the Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions as an online course developer. Cassie’s most recent experience prior to Columbia was with Saint Peter's University where she was the sole Instructional Designer. Cassie has a profound interest in PBL and other pedagogical approaches that encompass student-centered learning experiences.

Domi Enders is an educator who has been working in higher education for the past 15 years in various capacities: instructor, education technologist, and founder of an open education startup. Prior to this she had a successful career in architecture. In her current position as Associate Director for Learning Resources and Academic Technologies at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, Domi’s work is focused on exploring and developing teaching and learning environments that make innovative, effective and meaningful use of technology. She prototypes solutions that meet the everyday needs of faculty and students while also providing a great user experience.

As the Educational Support Specialist for the Engineering Teaching and Learning Team at Queen’s University, Danielle is the team’s frontline person and provides support to both the team and faculty with all ongoing projects. Since going remote, she has provided extensive support for onQ (the university’s LMS). She holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Toronto, a B.Ed. from Queen’s University, and is working towards her Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design from Athabasca University. In her off-work time, Danielle enjoys playing with her 2 dogs, sports, dancing, and arts & crafts.

Marisa Lavoratore is an Instructional Designer with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. In her role, she supports faculty and team members as a resource for learning activities, assessments, and the integration of meaningful learning technologies. Before this position, Marisa worked in a variety of educational roles such as instructor, teacher mentor, and curriculum developer in Canada, Italy, South Korea, and Malaysia. Marisa spends her downtime studying Italian, collecting stationery, and perfecting cake recipes.

A professional engineer for two decades, Sean has also been teaching university and college level courses for the last ten years. Specializing in Water Resources engineering, most courses focus within the water field, and range from 15 to 150 students. At Queen’s, he has been coordinating the fourth year Capstone Design Engineering course in the Civil Engineering department for the last three years.

As a part of the Centre for Teaching & Learning team at Queen’s University, Selina assists faculty, graduate students, and support staff in the use of onQ (the university’s LMS), and other educational technologies.

Richard Powers is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, University of Maryland Global Campus. An expert online teacher, trainer and instructional designer, he has taught online since 1998 using WebTycho, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace and ILIAS. Currently, he is the Digital Instructional Designer at the Professional School of Education—Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg for blended learning courses for pre-service teachers. Since the pandemic, Richard has been a key member of two task forces preparing students and teachers to teach remotely. With City Colleges of Chicago, Richard helped move 3,000 teachers and 25,000 students online. At Stuttgart University, Richard runs Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility workshops and develops courses for inclusion and interculturality for pre-service teachers.

Denise Kreiger, M.Ed. is a Digital Learning Designer in Instructional Production Services, Digital Learning & Innovation at Boston University where she designs and develops courses in the Questrom online MBA program working in a team approach and also conducts quality assurance of online courses. She has over 15 years of experience in instructional design in higher education institutions and is a Quality Matters-certified Peer Reviewer.

Monty Kaplan is a Platform Administrator in Educational Technology, Digital Learning & Innovation at Boston University where he administers the Questrom online MBA platform delivery, including Blackboard Ultra and FeedbackFruits.

Dr. Abrego provides vision, leadership and coordination in the effective use of instructional technologies used in distance education, interactive media, classroom instructional technologies and web-based instruction. She supervises the Instructional Technology and Distance Education Services staff including the instructional Designers and the audio-visual media services groups.

Coming from an international career in manufacturing, consulting and entrepreneurial pursuits, Glen started teaching as an adjunct academic at the University of Adelaide in 2017. He jumped straight in, redesigning an international entrepreneurship and innovation course, taking a blended learning approach.
Lifelong curiosity and love of learning has propelled Glen to seek ways to increase student engagement, including through technology. This has resulted in his courses featuring literally hundreds of guest speakers, particularly world-leading thinkers and practitioners – all through the power of video. He also teaches leadership and corporate social responsibility.

Dr. Marco Bevolo, PhD, earned his PhD on the role of design in generating urban futures at the Graduate School, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Tilburg University. In 1999-2009, he was a Director at Philips Design. He is the founder of Marco Bevolo Consulting, working in foresight, futures research and strategic design. In this extracurricular capacity, in the lustrum 2010-2016 he has been the Principal Research Urban Futures for Philips Lighting, now Signify. He has contributed to seminars and events with the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Emerson College, Boston; the UNAM Post-graduate School of Architecture, Mexico City.

Justin Louder serves as associate vice provost for Texas Tech University eLearning & Academic Partnerships where he is the primary consultant for college and department leaders on the development of new, high-demand eLearning degree and certificate proposals. He also oversees Blackboard support and instructional design, as well as compliance and regulation for online and regional site programs. In addition, he is the interim superintendent for TTU K-12, leading a number of initiatives to modernize and streamline technology and apply best practices to online programs in the unit.

Dr. Cali Ellis is a professor in the Masters of Public Administration Program at Evergreen. She teaches research methods, statistics, and negotiation to adult learners.

Milou has been working as part of the Teachers Relations team at FeedbackFruits. She is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with teachers that use FeedbackFruits tools, by giving workshops and hosting 1-on-1 meetings to help teachers setting up engaging learning activities. She also supports educational institutions within the Netherlands through the pilot process. Also, Milou loves to make a positive impact with her contributions to the company’s Wisdom team.

Ewoud’s journey and the idea behind FeedbackFruits began at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. As a student member of the Dutch national accreditation committee, Ewoud’s vision was to change the way education is designed, by increasing interactivity and collaboration in course design. Ewoud co-founded FeedbackFruits in 2012, which grew to global success in the years after. Today, he continues to lead an international team of over 60 employees under the mission of transforming education by making every course engaging.