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Academic Excellence and Development

Join Shawn Fredrick (Instructional Technologist) from Academic Excellence and Development, for an inside look at innovations shaping modern classrooms. From pioneering professors to ed tech, this informative and fun podcast explores trends and tools impacting teaching & learning. For those lifelong learners and seasoned instructors, it offers inspiration & practical advice on the methods and minds driving education today.

  1. Feb 26

    A conversation with Roger Stanford, college president

    Join us for our conversation with Western's college president. Roger sat down with us to discuss Western's culture, his thoughts on education, past, present and future, and his plans on retirement.

    A conversation with Roger Stanford, college president

  2. 11/20/2025

    Getting to know Fayme, Learning Experience Designer

    Fayme Evenson is the new Learning Experience Designer, here at Western Technical College. This podcast take some time to get to know her personally and her thoughts on education and the role she hope to play.

  3. 09/13/2025

    AI in Education: 2025 Ai4 Conference

    This is a recap of the 2025 Ai4 Conference and some of the key takeaways from attending the conference with the focus on AI's impacts on education. Our guest this week are Josh Gamer, Associate Vp Workforce Partnerships & Innovation and Brianne Shane, Director Institutional Research.

    AI in Education: 2025 Ai4 Conference

  4. 03/27/2025

    AI in Education: Faculty Experiments and Perspectives

    AI is here, and it's changing everything in higher education. Cheater or tutor? Threat or opportunity? This podcast dives deep into the debates and practicalities of artificial intelligence in colleges. We'll uncover how AI is being used to personalize learning, develop critical thinking skills, and even reimagine assessment. Are we preparing students for the future, or are we risking the very foundations of education? Tune in to find out. This is the second in a multi-part series using Notebook LM to generate podcast summaries.

    AI in Education: Faculty Experiments and Perspectives

  5. 01/13/2025

    Getting to know Max Smith, Learning Experience Designer

    Max Smith is the new Learning Experience Designer here at Western Technical College. This podcast take some time to get to know him personally and his thoughts on education.

  6. 10/04/2024

    AI & the Educator: A conversation with AI Avatars

    This is an AI generate conversation with avatars from an app called NotebookLM. The topic of the conversation addresses the state of AI in education as summarized from a series of source articles referenced.

    AI & the Educator: A conversation with AI Avatars

  7. 09/06/2024

    Getting to know Jenny Holm and Jordan Brick, New Faculty Developers

    Jenny and Jordan are new faculty developers here at Western Technical Collage as of Fall of 2024. In this podcast we take some time to get to know them and their thoughts on education.

  8. 05/28/2024

    Paw-dcast: The Therapy Dogs of Western Technical College

    In this episode, Maria and Adam interview Western Instructors Cindy Prindle and Jennifer Stangl about their not-so-secret secret of classroom success: therapy dogs Murphy and Ruben. We learn about different types of working dogs, their handlers, how they can help in teaching and learning, and ask the important question: should all of us humans get trained to be therapy dogs too?

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Join Shawn Fredrick (Instructional Technologist) from Academic Excellence and Development, for an inside look at innovations shaping modern classrooms. From pioneering professors to ed tech, this informative and fun podcast explores trends and tools impacting teaching & learning. For those lifelong learners and seasoned instructors, it offers inspiration & practical advice on the methods and minds driving education today.

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