Episodes

Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Each year WCET honors two individuals during our award season with the Dick Jonsen and Mollie McGill Award and the Sally M. Johnstone Award. Join host Lindsey Downs as she interviews WCET Award winners Tina Parscal and Erika Swain on their professional journeys, lessons learned over their careers, and new things they have learned recently.

Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
In this episode, host Lindsey Downs discusses Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign project, which recently won one of the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Awards. The projects Instructional Designer, Di Wu, and the course Instructor, Nate Wilson, chat with Lindsey about the inspiration behind the redesign, working a local tribal expert to ensure cultural authenticity, and what they’ve all been learning in the last month.

Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Episode 2.2: AI and Higher Ed - A New Frontier for WCET with Van Davis
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Artificial Intelligence is headed to college! Well, it's already there, and that means it's a new world out there, especially "in here" for higher ed. WCET is here to help you understand how this technological inflection point and the recent developments in AI arena can and will impact postsecondary education and your daily work life. Join host Lindsey Downs and Van Davis, WCET's Chief Strategy Officer, to discuss this new frontier.

Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
In our season two opener for the WCET Frontiers Pod, Lindsey Downs chats with Dr. Mordecai Brownlee, President of the Community College of Aurora in CO about what led him to his current role, important lessons he’s learned, and productivity hacks for today’s higher ed workforce.

Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Episode 1.8: Equity in Math with Denise Castro
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Denise Castro, Policy Analyst at The Education Trust-West for a discussion about equity in math classes.

Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Laura Som, MAYE Center Founder & Director and Healing and Health Promotion Instructor, for a conversation about nature as a lab for students and the importance of context and community to help connect students to science and it's real-world applications. The discussion also touches on Laura's incredible journey and inspiring perseverance.

Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Michael Mendez, Assistant Professor with the School of Social Ecology, in the department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UC-Irvine, for a conversation about embedding social justice issues into coursework and engaging students in policy at the local, state, and national level.

Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Join WCET Content Creator Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal, STEM, Digital Learning Strategist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with WCET and full time lecturer at CSU Long Beach and Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie, Director, Center for Statistical Consulting - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences for a conversation about the intersection of education, science, politics, and society and how misinformation speaks to the need of education around the critical evaluation of information. Dr. Ricks-Oddie is a passionate educator who is walking the walk and diving into local politics to ensure that the communities that are impacted by policy decisions are part of the conversations.