Speakers
Steve Sherwood, Ph.D.
Director, William L. Adams Center for Writing
Texas Christian University
Academic Writing Workshop – Getting Back to Basics for Publishing Success
Friday, November 6, 2020, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Dr. Steve Sherwood is the director of the W.L. Adams Center for Writing at TCU, where he has taught writing and literature courses since 1988. In addition to having published short stories, articles, and essays in a number of journals, his publications include five books: the St. Martin´s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors, 4th edition (2011), with Christina Murphy), Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (1996, with Murphy and Joe Law), the mystery novel Hardwater (2005), awarded the Garrett Prize for fiction, Field Guide: Essays and Stories (2014), and his latest mystery-suspense novel No Asylum (2014). He is secretary of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers and has served as president of the South Central Writing Centers Association and the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE), which presented him with the Frances Hernández Teacher-Scholar Award in 2020. His research and teaching interests include writing centers, classical and contemporary rhetoric, humor theories, composition theory and pedagogy, and the modern American West. Dr. Sherwood regularly teaches courses in humor, nature writing, novel writing, and creative nonfiction in the Master of Liberal Arts program at TCU.
Wayne Thomas, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Innovation
University of Oklahoma
Developing and Organized Learning Framework
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wayne Thomas is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Innovation at the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his PhD at Oklahoma State University.
The best part of his job is teaching students. His primary teaching responsibilities include financial accounting, intermediate accounting, and capital markets. While at OU, he has taught more than 12,000 students. He enjoys the challenge of helping students become problem solvers and think more critically about the role of accounting in society. He co-authors Intermediate Accounting 10e with David Spiceland and Mark Nelson (McGraw-Hill). He also co-authors Financial Accounting 5e with David Spiceland and Don Herrmann (McGraw-Hill).
His research includes the study of accounting information in capital markets, techniques used by managers to manipulate earnings, the importance of financial disclosures, and financial statement analysis. He has served as an editor for The Accounting Review and an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research. He holds the David C. Steed Chair in Accounting and OU’s designation as a George Lynn Cross Research Professor.
William Torres, M.A.
Director, Teaching & Learning Center
Midland College
Active Learning – Engaging GenZ to Infinity and Beyond (even Online)
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
William Torres is a dedicated and passionate professional with over a decade of experience helping organizations grow and achieve their goals. He has served as speech and communication faculty in higher education since 2011, and for the past 6 years has served as an Instructional Design Specialist at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, TX developing and running faculty engagement programs including the Active Learning Academy, First Year Faculty Experience, and the Integrative Learning Fellows program. William recently started in his new role as Director of the Teaching & Learning Center at Midland College in Midland, TX, where he will build faculty development offerings to support full-time and adjunct faculty and enhance instruction across the college. He is currently a doctoral student seeking an Ed.D. in educational leadership at Tarleton State University.
Douglas A. Wilson, Ph.D.
Distance Learning Instructional Designer
Dallas College, Eastfield Campus
Backward Design: Focus on What Students Need to Learn, and The Teaching Will Follow
Friday, November 6, 2020, 11:15 am -12:30 pm
Douglas A. Wilson is an instructional designer in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Distance Education at Dallas College’s Eastfield Campus and an Adjunct Professor of Higher Education and Learning Technologies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He is also a senior instructional designer at LXD Technology, a consulting firm specializing in instructional design and design thinking, a hands-on approach to innovation for student learning in higher education. Dr Wilson has designed online courses in fields as diverse as cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, journalism, history, and basic writing for disadvantaged students. His writings appear in peer-reviewed journals such as Systemic Practice and Action Research and The Community College Journal of Research and Practice, and he has presented to national and international groups such as the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Dr Wilson earned a doctorate in Learning, Design, and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University and taught full-time for a decade as faculty in journalism and developmental writing at Richland College. Prior to becoming a teacher, he worked as a television news reporter for more than 10-years in major markets including Baltimore, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. Dr Wilson holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.