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Developing Digital Competence: How to Build a Digital Competencies Program

Christine Boyland
Christine Boyland came to Bryn Mawr in 2006, as the Director of the Language Learning Center. Concurrent with her employment at the College, she served as a Technology Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), conducting in-person and web-based workshops on a variety of technology and pedagogy topics to a national audience. Before coming to Bryn Mawr, Christine taught at Yale University, Trinity College, and the College of William and Mary, and she was an Instructional Designer at St. Anselm College.


Jessica Hollinger
Jessica Hollinger has worked at Bryn Mawr College for 10 years.  In her current role as the Associate Director of Experiential Education, Jessica oversees a catalog of 15-20 intensives—3-5-full-day programs—that provide students with opportunities to explore career paths, develop industry-specific professional readiness skills, and network with industry professionals.  Jessica also runs the Career and Civic Engagement Center’s Leadership Learning Laboratory, which involves running a simulated workday for students and collecting feedback from upwards of 15 assessors—College alumni/ae, staff, and faculty—for each of the student participants. 


Victoria Karasic
Vickie Karasic is an academic librarian who specializes in educational technology, digital and information literacy, and learning spaces. As an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College, she assists faculty, students, and other members of the College community to incorporate technology meaningfully into teaching, research, and learning. Her research interests include the use of digital media and technology in language learning, active learning methods, and learning spaces in academic libraries. 


Maria Ocando Finol
Maria Ocando Finol is joining Bryn Mawr College as an Educational Technology Specialist, after receiving her Phd in Spanish from Arizona State University. As part of Bryn Mawr College’s Library of Information Technology Services, she will focus on helping faculty and students include technology into their academic work in meaningful ways. With a background in applied linguistics, Maria’s research interests include developing intercultural competence through technology, using film for pedagogical purposes, and the roles of teachers in tech-mediated classrooms. Before coming to Bryn Mawr College, Maria was a Connected Academics research fellow at ASU, where she developed professionalization initiatives for Humanities doctoral students. She was also the founding president for CALL Club at ASU, a graduate student-led organization focusing on computer-assisted language learning, and the lead organizer of AZCALL 2018.


Megan Pongratz
Megan Pongratz joined the Leadership, Innovation, and Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) in 2015 as Associate Director for Career and Professional Development. In her role, Megan provides career counseling to students, develops career-related programming, builds relationships across campus and supervises the Career Peers.   Megan has over eight years of experience working in higher education and prior to coming to Bryn Mawr, she worked in Career Services and Leadership Development at Philadelphia University and Temple University.  During this time she developed targeted career programming for students and alumni, managed an academic internship program and coordinated opportunities for students to develop as leaders.


Jennifer Spohrer
Jennifer Spohrer is the Director of Educational Technology Services in Bryn Mawr College’s Library and Information Technology Services department. Her team helps faculty and students incorporate technology into their teaching, learning, and research in meaningful ways. They host an annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr College, now in its ninth year, and oversee the College’s Digital Competencies program. Jennifer served as project manager for several multi-institutional grants that Bryn Mawr College led, including a U. S. Department of Education FIPSE First in the World grant to develop a Blended, Just-in-Time Math Fundamentals support for students in introductory STEM courses and a Teagle Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience grant to explore how small liberal arts colleges might collaborate to produce interactive online learning materials, using psychology research methods and statistics as a case study.

 

 

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