EP 20 - Dr. Olysha Magruder from Johns Hopkins talks about their three-pronged approach to online faculty development

In this episode, John and Jason talk with Dr. Olysha Magruder about the future of online education, a three-pronged approach to faculty development including JHU’s Coursera MOOC Course, and time boxing to help achieve successful outcomes. See complete notes and transcripts at www.onlinelearningpodcast.com

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Links and Resources:

• Dr. Olysha Magruder is the Interim Assistant Dean in the Center for Learning Design at Johns Hopkins University and can be found here at LinkedIn
• Excellence in Online Teaching Coursera Course
• Johns Hopkins Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium
• Beth McMurtrie on Teaching: What happens to teaching after Covid? (Chronicle of Higher Ed Paywall)

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Transcript

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False Start

[00:00:00] Jason Johnston: Any other questions for us before we get rolling? We'll do our normal kind of intro here, and then we'll get into the conversation.

[00:00:07] Olysha Magruder: No, no questions. I hope I don't sound too goofy, but...

[00:00:10] John Nash: No, we like goofy.

[00:00:11] Jason Johnston: Yeah, you'll fit right in! . We decided on the front end. We're just going to let it roll in that way. And I feel like john people have appreciated that

[00:00:18] John Nash: I even laugh at our own dumb intros because it's just, but yeah, we're not too stiff about it, but we have a serious topic here, but yeah, we're still humans.

Start of Episode

[00:00:27] John Nash: I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston.

[00:00:30] Jason Johnston: Hey, John. Hey, everyone. And this is online learning in the second half, the online learning podcast.

[00:00:35] John Nash: Yeah, we're doing this podcast to let you in on a conversation we've been having for the last two years about online education. Look, online learning's had its chance to be great, and some of it is, but a lot still isn't. How are we going to get to the next stage, Jason?

[00:00:49] Jason Johnston: That is a great question. How about we do a podcast and talk about it?

[00:00:54] John Nash: I agree. Let's do a podcast and talk about it right now. What do you want to talk about today?

[00:01:00] Jason Johnston: Wait, we are doing a podcast to talk about it. That's the weird thing about our intro. We're already doing a podcast

[00:01:05] John Nash: Yeah. It's very meta.

[00:01:07] Jason Johnston: a little meta that way. Yeah. Yeah today we are going to talk with Alicia Magruder. Dr. Alicia Magruder from John Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.

[00:01:22] Olysha Magruder: Hello, Alicia here.

[00:01:25] Jason Johnston: Did I say all that right?

[00:01:27] Olysha Magruder: tHere is one funny thing about the name of my university, which is it's named after somebody. who has a weird first name, and it's Johns. That was his name. It's very common to say John because it feels weird to say Johns, and in fact, when I originally applied for my position in my cover letter, I also said John.

[00:01:47] Jason Johnston: Oh boy.

[00:01:48] Olysha Magruder: I learned very quickly that, oops, it's a weird name, Johns Hopkins, but everything else, yes.

[00:01:53] Jason Johnston: I'm glad you, you made it through that first that first test and they were kind to you, somebody not too long ago spelled Tennessee wrong on a cover letter, hard one to look over, easy to do though, easy to do, but also a little hard to look over sometimes.

Yeah nice to have you here. So Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.

[00:02:14] Olysha Magruder: Yes, that's right. Whiting School of Engineering.

[00:02:17] Jason Johnston: Yeah. And tell us about what you do there.

[00:02:21] Olysha Magruder: So I am the interim assistant dean of learning design and innovation, which is a somewhat new position not on the team, but for me, but I lead the learning design team of instructional