Using Your Students’ Voices to Inform Your Learning Ecosystem

Tekoya Boykins

Director of Academic Strategic Planning and Support, Academic Partnerships

Tekoya Boykins, EdD, is a passionate educator who promotes growth and positive change through education. Currently serving as the director of academic strategic planning and support at Academic Partnerships, Tekoya is an advocate for education who has led in various capacities including serving as a business and education faculty, curriculum and instructional designer, assessment writer, and faculty trainer for professional development. Her research focuses on competency-based education.

She has a heart for continuous growth and improvement. She is active in her community promoting education to underserved and underrepresented populations who desire change through quality and innovative education.

Dana Harrison

Chair, Dept. of Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain | Director of MBA Programs, East Tennessee State University

Dana Eckerle Harrison is the chair of Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain and the director of MBA programs at East Tennessee State University. Her passion lies in empowering teams and cultivating a collaborative environment to drive positive impact. During her tenure at ETSU, Dana has served to streamline course scheduling, promote faculty research, enhance acquisition and retention strategies, develop innovative curricula, implement major program initiatives, and promote quality and consistent online course development.

She endeavors to simplify complex topics to make them accessible and understandable to students. In support of this effort, she is a co-author of the Essentials of Marketing Analytics, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2024, Essentials of Marketing Research, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2024, and Analytics Based Selling, 1st edition, Sage 2024.

Lauren Wright

Director of Program Strategy, Academic Partnerships

As the director of program strategy representing Academic Partnerships and Wiley University Services, who have recently combined strengths as a single company, Lauren Wright leads the academic program strategy for university partners, implementing best practices and processes in online learning, including program strategy and design, curriculum mapping, course design and production, and faculty development. She is responsible for shaping the thought leadership strategy and approach that examines how student online learning preferences and faculty online design and teaching preferences have evolved in the post-COVID learning environment. Lauren has been growing the capabilities of organizations through learning design, organizational design, design thinking, management, and leadership for more than two decades.

Robert Griffiths

WCET Steering Committee Vice Chair, WCET Executive Council, Assistant Vice Provost, Online Learning and Innovation, The Ohio State University (Re-elected October 2022)

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Robert Griffiths is assistant vice provost for online learning and innovation at The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs where he has led the university’s online education initiative since 2013. He remains passionate about the affordances and possibilities of technology-empowered learning opportunities.

Robert also guides other initiatives, including those related to state authorization, non-degree student support, and organizational culture. He is a team member for university-level projects related to the curricular redesign for general education, workforce development, and scaling teaching and learning support. Prior to his current role, he created the Office of Distance Education and eLearning grants program and served as principal investigator in a study of how the use of technology can engage students, increase instructor efficiency, and support anytime/anyplace learning. Robert earned his bachelor’s degree from Denison University, and his master’s and doctorate from Ohio State and is the author or co-author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.