On this week’s episode, Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students. Guest: Doug Grove Associate Provost and Vice President for Enrollment Management and Program Development, Concordia University Doug Grove is the Associate Provost and Vice President for Enrollment Management and Program Development. As Associate Provost, he plays a significant administrative role in the development of online and blended programs and courses, faculty development in online teaching, and coordinating efforts between the business office, marketing, adult and graduate admissions and the Office of the Provost. More Quotes We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility. -Doug Grove One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students. -Doug Grove Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made was we just took our existing structure and placed it on any new program. -Doug Grove Education Technology Tools Adobe Connect web conferencing software Dragon Naturally Speaking for speech-to-text Recommendations Bonni: Batch processing on the computer. Do “like work” all at one time. Doug: Book: Start with Why by Simon Sinek Coaching for Leaders Episode 223: Start with Why Featuring Simon Sinek Simon Sinek’s TED talk Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.