Please contact me:

• If you do not know the best contact at the Sheridan Center for your question. I can help!
• With any questions about and ideas for strategic directions of the Sheridan Center.
• For media inquiries about the Sheridan Center.
   

Please contact me for: 

• A challenge or idea that may benefit from digital tools or cross campus collaboration
• Improvements to classrooms and other teaching and learning spaces at Brown. 
• Data visualizations to provide insight into digital tool use within your course. 
• Removing barriers to introduce programming in non-computer science courses. 
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Please contact me for:

• Launching an online course or program
• Departmental partnerships and initiatives
• Digital usability, privacy, and compliance
   

Please contact me for:

• Planning curricular assessment (e.g. concentration reviews, self-studies)
• Designing evaluation plans for post-secondary education grants
• Developing department surveys for the course feedback system
• Teaching consultations for social science and interdisciplinary courses

Please contact me for:

• Individual or department-specific writing or language support 
• Inclusive teaching practices for supporting international and multilingual students
• The Conversation Partners Program

Please contact me for:

• STEM course consultations
• Problem-solving/assignment design
• Undergraduate lab course design
• STEM graduate student teaching development
• Developing equity-minded learning experiences in STEM

Please contact me for:

• Planning curricular assessment (e.g. concentration reviews, self-studies)
• Designing evaluation plans for post-secondary education grants
• Developing department surveys for the course feedback system
• Teaching consultations for social science and interdisciplinary courses

Please contact me for:

• Facilitate integration of data science curricula
• Conduct the Data Science Course Design Institute
• Recruit faculty and students for the Data Science Fellows Program

Please contact me for: 

• Teaching consultations for social science and interdisciplinary courses
• Consultations around student learning assessment 
• Program evaluation 

Please contact me for: 

• A challenge or idea that may benefit from digital tools or cross campus collaboration
• Improvements to classrooms and other teaching and learning spaces at Brown. 
• Data visualizations to provide insight into digital tool use within your course. 
• Removing barriers to introduce programming in non-computer science courses.

Please contact me for:

• Launching an online course or program
• Departmental partnerships and initiatives
• Digital usability, privacy, and compliance

Please contact me for:

• Incorporating media into an online course or program
• Consultation and training on self-produced media 
• Exploring departmental partnerships and initiatives with media

Please contact me for:

• Strategizing the design and development of new online degree programs
• Questions relating to learning experience design in fully-online environments
• Inclusive teaching practices for supporting online student learning

Please contact me for:

• Coordinating course design resources and support with DLD
• To request assistance for online, hybrid, and face-to-face course design
• Program Support

Please contact me for:

• Brainstorming the relationship between pedagogy & technology
• Game design
• Classroom innovation
   

Please contact me for:

• Online, blended, hybrid, and face-to-face course design and development
• Gamification design for learning and story-based design for learning
• Student-centered, creative, and engaging learning experiences that align with course outcomes
• Making the technology used to support learning as seamless and invisible as possible

Please contact me for:

• Online or hybrid course design and development
• Undergraduate, pre-college, executive education, or MOOC course design
• Student-centered active learning design using creative, authentic, media-rich activities aligned with learning outcomes
   

Please contact me for help with:

• Online course design 
• Fostering student engagement and community online
• Digital pedagogy
   

Please contact me for:

• Researching and evaluating new learning tools
• Digital accessibility and inclusive tech practices
• Interactive media and information design 
   

Please contact me for:

• Medical School Canvas Courses
• Medical School Panopto Questions
• Zoom Support for Med School Courses
• ExamSoft/Examplify Support
• Oasis Support 

Please contact me for:

• Consulting and training on Sheridan’s supported learning technology tools 
• Review the effectiveness of your current integrated technology in Canvas
• Researching and evaluating new learning tools

Please contact me for:

• Coordinate media productions for courses
• Capture educational video/audio stories
• Consult and train instructors to self-produce media 
   

Contact me for:

• Creative ways to build community in online courses
• Facilitating student agency through open educational practices
• Utilizing a critical pedagogy approach in the context of online, blended, hybrid and in-person courses.

Please contact me for:

• Media creation for courses
• Visual storytelling
• Video editing, motion graphics and animation

Please contact me for:

• Course design
• Incorporating educational technology into courses
• Educational technology best practices
• Consultations for education

Please Contact me for:

• Learner-centered design aligned to learning outcomes for online and hybrid courses
• Digital accessibility of Canvas course materials (Canvas tools and files such as PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets)
• Open Education Resources (OER) adoption into Canvas

Please contact me for:

• Media creation for new, fully-online courses & programs
• Video Editing and Motion Graphics
• Visual Storytelling

Please contact me for:

• Course design and development
• Using active learning strategies
• Promoting students’ critical thinking
• Creating inclusive, psychologically safe learning environments
• Enhancing learners’ transfer of knowledge

David Harrisville holds a BA from Carleton College and a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also taught, tutored, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship.  He conducted historical research in Germany and Israel, culminating in the book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 (Cornell University Press, 2021).  From 2018-2019, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Furman University.  Before joining the staff at Brown, he served as Information Technology Learning Specialist at Legal Services Corporation, where he designed and delivered training programs for adult learners, both online and in person.

Please contact me for:

• 3D design and fabrication
• Integrating interactive media and VR into learning
• Developing tools to visualize and support learning

Please contact me for:

• Support with student multimedia assignments
• Consultations on creative emerging technologies
• Questions about Google sites

Please contact me for:

• STEM course consultations
• Problem-solving/assignment design
• Undergraduate lab course design
• STEM graduate student teaching development

Please contact me for:

• Problem Solving Fellows Program
• New Scientist Collective and Catalyst Programs
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Orientation
• Undergraduate teaching and learning development

Please contact me for:

• Academic Advising
• Academic Tutoring 
• Midyear Completion Celebration

Please contact me for:

• STEM graduate student teaching development
• Postdoc teaching development
• Teaching statements and teaching portfolios

Please contact me for:

• Individual or department-specific writing or language support 
• Inclusive teaching practices for supporting international and multilingual students
• The Conversation Partners Program

Please contact me for:

• Designing formal and informal writing assignments which support your course’s learning objectives.
• How to teach students to write within your course.
• How to get students excited about writing in your course.
• Questions regarding the Sheridan-RISD Museum Collaborative Workshop Series, or about using the RISD Museum for your course.

Please contact me for:

• individual language appointments for graduate students, or self-schedule here
• language and culture workshop offerings such as the Academic Writing series or weekly Brown Bag News conversation group
• summer English Language Program for incoming international and multilingual graduate students

Please contact me for:

• Guidance on affiliating your course with the Writing Fellows program
• Support for students within the Writing Fellows program
• Questions related to [email protected]
• Strategies for integrating writing into your courses

Please contact me for:

• Event and program information
• Student Employment
• Finance/budget