inspirED conference 2022

Dr. Robert Vanderlan is a senior associate director in Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Innovation, leading a team that offers instructional design expertise and support to faculty using a range of learning technologies. In addition to ten years supporting faculty teaching development, Rob has been an instructional designer for a wide range of online and blended courses. He is also an historian, with a doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Rochester, and the author of Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce’s Media Empire.

Lambert Schuwirth obtained his MD from Maastricht University. In 1991, he joined the Department of Educational Development and Research there, taking up various roles in student assessment: Chairman of the Inter-university and the Local Progress Test Review Committee, the OSCE Review Committee and the Case-based Testing Committee. Since 2007, he has been a full-professor for Innovative Assessment at Maastricht University – currently as Adjunct. In 2011, he was made a Strategic Professor for Medical Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia and is also the Chair of the Flinders University Prideaux Discipline of Clinical Education.

Domi joined the Columbia University School of Professional Studies (SPS) as Associate Director for Learning Resources and Academic Technologies in October 2016. She has practiced and taught architecture and lighting design, and founded an open education startup. In her role at SPS she works with faculty, students and staff to innovate, support, and enhance digital teaching and learning. She is currently focused on the development and evaluation of educational technology pilots to support interaction design in asynchronous courses and programs.

Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin currently serves as Senior Law Lecturer, Programme Director for Master of Laws programmes and Chief Project Officer for Centre of Industrial Revolution and Innovation (CIRI) at Taylor’s University. Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin is also an instructional design consultant for various international corporations. She is also an award-winning academic, having received numerous awards and accolades for revolutionising teaching and learning techniques to teach law using Augmented Reality, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Experiential Learning and Gamification.

Dr. Kim Chappell is an Assistant Professor at Fort Hays State University in the Advanced Education Programs Department of the College of Education. Dr. Chappell has been teaching more than 32 years including 18 years in higher education. Her experience and research interests include effective teaching, assessment, curriculum, and leadership in higher education. Dr. Chappell is the Program Coordinator of four Specialist in Education degrees offered virtually. She teaches capstone courses in research and the assessment, teaching, and curriculum courses in Education Innovation and Leadership program. Dr. Chappell is also a co-editor for the Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research.

Professor Michael Sankey is the Director Learning Futures and Lead Education Architect at Charles Darwin University in Australia. In addition to this role, Michael is the President of the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE). He specialises in emerging technologies, technology enhanced learning, curriculum renewal, eLearning quality, multimodal design, digital, visual and multiliteracies. Michael has worked in higher education for 30+ years, at 5 universities and is particularly interested in how constructively aligned and aesthetically enhanced learning environments can better transmit concepts to students, particularly those from diverse backgrounds and those who study at a distance.

Madeleine Schultz is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University. Her interests in chemistry education research include concept development, assessment and incorporation of sustainability into chemistry curricula.

Dr. Mathias Magdowski is responsible for the training, the consultation hours, the admission and examination of the courses "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering" as well as "Electromagnetic Compatibility", where he enjoys to deal with alternative teaching and learning methods. For his continued effort, he was awarded with the best lecturer of OVGU award in 2018. He also coordinates the working group on online teaching at his university as well as their faculty group for study advertising. Since 2015, He is also involved into the GRIAT program, where he was awarded with the best GRIAT lecturer award from OVGU in 2017 and 2018.

Rina Araneta is an educator and e-learning specialist. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Pedagogical, Educational and Instructional Sciences: Research on Inclusion, Well-being and Sustainability in Education at the University of Padova, with a particular focus on the sustainability of e-learning practices. She also works as a learning designer at the Office of Digital Learning and Multimedia, where she develops Massive Open Online Courses for the university. Prior to her research, she was a secondary school teacher for nearly ten years.

Sofia Sá is an invited lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), where she teaches Communication Skills in Engineering to 450 Master's students. Educational Psychologist, certified Pedagogical trainer, qualified and registered with the Scientific and Pedagogical Portuguese Council for Continual Training, her primary research interest is Active Learning methods and their implementation in Higher Education. For 20 years, she has been engaged in multiple trainings initiatives and acted as a pedagogical consultant and trainer for both the Private and Public Sectors.

YiJun (Diana) Dai is an Instructional Designer at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies (SPS). She has over five years of experience in instructional design and teaching for a wide range of audiences at both higher education institutions and EdTech companies. As an advocate of student-centered learning and student agency, she is passionate about creating active and personalized learning experiences to enhance learning outcomes and engagement. She also believes purposeful use of new media and emerging technologies can make learning more accessible and effective to all.

Michelle Steinhilb is an Associate Professor of Biology at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. She teaches undergraduate courses in genetics, biotechnology, neuroscience, and cancer biology. She is passionate about adapting new teaching tools to boost student learning outcomes to inspire students to become life-long learners and citizen-scientists. Michelle earned a BS in Chemistry from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). She spent four years studying fruit fly models of neurodegenerative disease at Harvard Medical School during her postdoctoral fellowship before joining the faculty at CMU in 2006.

Marnie Roestel is the Associate Director of Learning Systems Support at Central Michigan University and proud CMU alumn, earning first her bachelor’s then master’s degree in Educational Technology.  Marnie provides support to users in their use of technologies within the LMS system.
In addition, she has created workshops on accessibility, open educational resources, and online course design to provide faculty with the resources and ability to design a high-quality, learner-centered course.  She is the recipient of the 2020 miBug (Michigan Blackboard User Group) Distinguished Member Award and currently serves as the miBug chair.

Dr. Tiffany Gunning is a Senior Lecturer Curriculum Design and Development at Deakin University. She combines her scientific background, expertise in secondary and tertiary education with her interest in the development and implementation of e-Learning tools, to provide online solutions to Higher Education teaching and learning challenges. In 2019 she received a Vice Chancellors Award for her work in the development of online self-and peer-assessment strategies to support the development of student’s teamwork skills. She currently leads the Authentic Assessment project in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, to support the development and recognition of graduate’s transferrable employability skills.

Wilco te Winkel has a master’s degree in Information Management and has been working at Erasmus University Rotterdam since 2001. He worked for 8 years as a university lecturer and then later held the roles of Information Manager, IT Demand Manager, Education Innovation Team Manager, Interim Education Bureau Manager, Interim Education Marketing Coordinator, Interim Education Research Profiling Manager for 7 years at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Since 2019, he has been working as the Information Manager at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He has given over 35 presentations in various conferences since 1998 and currently has 19 publications.

Ziwei (Jo) Huang is the AI Product Owner at FeedbackFruits, currently working on Automated Feedback and other AI products. Previously, she worked as a product and user researcher at various EdTech and consumer product companies. She received an MSc (Distinction) in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the Department of Education at Oxford University and a BA in Linguistics (honors) and Organizational Studies (International Education) from Pitzer College. She has presented her research on pragmatics at the EPICS VIII Conference. Jo welcomes collaboration opportunities in education and technology, especially in efficacy research.

Maria works at FeedbackFruits as a Pedagogy Researcher. She spends her time discovering the best practices, as well as challenges in the educational domain, both by diving into the research and talking to instructors and learning designers from institutions around the world. She designed the ‘Pedagogy Onboarding’, an internal course using FeedbackFruits to teach team members about all things learning and pedagogy. Her interest for education started at a young age, and led her to start teaching at university, after teaching she realized the potential for technology to aid in the implementation of pedagogical methods in the classroom. She joined FeedbackFruits to help with their mission in transforming education, always putting pedagogy before technology.

Milou is a Pilot Success Manager at FeedbackFruits and was previously working as part of the Teachers Relations team at FeedbackFruits. She is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with academic institutions that use FeedbackFruits tools and has extensive experience giving workshops and hosting 1-on-1 meetings to help teachers setting up engaging learning activities. Milou loves to make a positive impact with her contributions to the company’s Pedagogy Impact 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.