Adam Hauerwas

Adam has managed three different learning management systems for Providence College, from ANGEL to Sakai to Canvas.  He is a "jack of all trades" as well and serves as Tier 3 support within the User Support division of the college's IT services, supporting operating systems, application software, and academic technology.

Mary MacDonald

Mary is the Senior Instructional Technologist with Framingham State University’s Education Technology Office (ETO). In this role, she manages the Learning Management System and associated integrated technologies and contributes to a wide variety of education technology initiatives across the university. Before joining the ETO team, Mary served FSU for over 6 years as an instructor and manager of the campus Planetarium. Drawing on her degrees in Astronomy (B.A.) and Secondary Science Education (M. Ed.) and her years of experience as a teacher in both public school classrooms and the planetarium, Mary maintains her passion for innovative, transdisciplinary, human-centered educational experiences, especially in STEM. Her areas of interest include Extended Reality, data science, and digital literacy. 

Zach Pendleton

With over a decade of experience in education technology, Zach Pendleton currently works as Instructure’s chief architect, where he collaborates with educators around the world to extend education’s reach, promote open educational platforms, and improve the impact of education technology. Additionally, he is a frequent speaker, podcast guest, and author in education technology. Zach holds a BS in English Literature from Utah State University and a JD from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark School of Law. His current research areas are generative AI’s impact in education, digital credentialing, and edge computing.

Meryl Poku

With nearly a decade of experience in Higher Education, Meryl serves as an Instructional Technologist at the Academic Technology Innovation Center at Babson College. In this role, she collaborates directly with faculty and staff to address their technology needs, particularly with new software and Canvas. Meryl leads Babson’s digital badging initiative and is also a key leader of the Babson Innovation Pipeline.

Ryan Sobeck

Ryan Sobeck is an Assistant Director in the Poorvu Center’s Educational Technology team. He supports the administration and usage of Canvas, Yale University’s Learning Management System, as well as all of the external applications that integrate into Canvas for faculty and student use. He is also the primary author and coordinator for all support documentation related to Canvas @ Yale and its connected tools to ensure there are robust self-service resources for the Yale community and beyond. Ryan has been at Yale since 2021.