Advisory Coaches | Course Developers/Facilitators | Management & Program Directors | Emeritus
Advisory Coaches
English Faculty
Course Facilitators
Kim Grewe, PhD
Course Developer, OFAR
Instructional Designer, Northern Virginia Community College
Kim Grewe, PhD is an educator, scholar, online learning enthusiast, community college leader, and champion of open education. Kim serves as an Instructional Designer at Northern Virginia Community College Online (NOVA Online), where she collaborates with peers to create inclusive and equitable online learning experiences for students. Based on solid research, the design work she does employs strategies for increasing student access, engagement, and interaction in online courses. As an advocate for open, her design strategies empower students to participate in their own learning and encourage real-world and authentic applications of the learning. She also serves on the DEI Council at NOVA and is working with a team of English professors on the college’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), which seeks to use culturally responsive teaching practices to create more equitable and inclusive learning experiences for students. Outside of work, Kim enjoys yoga, hiking, reading, and birdwatching.
Joy Shoemate
Course Developer, OFAR
Director of Online Learning, College of the Canyons
Joy Shoemate serves as the Director of Online Education at College of the Canyons where she supports instructors’ successful integration of technology and equitable teaching practices to promote student success, persistence, and completion in online courses. She also oversees the development and adoption of Open Educational Resources and implements training on best practices in online teaching and learning. In addition to her role at COC, Joy is a course facilitator for @ONE, and serves as the co-developer and co-facilitator of the Open for Antiracism Program. She is a former member of the Executive Council of CCCOER, and is a current board member of DET/CHE.
Maritez Apigo
Course Facilitator, OFAR
OER & Distance Education Coordinator, English Professor, Contra Costa College
For two and a half decades, Maritez Apigo has had the honor of teaching English and ESL in community colleges, high schools, and middle schools in the Bay Area, California, and in Hawaii. She has been teaching online since earning her M.A. in English and TESOL from SFSU in 2012, and she holds an Online Network of Educators (@ONE) Certificate in Online Teaching and Design and an @ONE Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles. She is an online and hybrid English Professor at Contra Costa College who has served as Distance Education Coordinator, Open Educational Resources (OER) Coordinator, and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Coordinator. As a leader in online education, OER, and ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost), she trains and mentors faculty at the college, district, and state levels. She is an @ONE Online Course Facilitator of professional development courses in online teaching pedagogy. On the leadership team of Open for Antiracism (OFAR), she serves as a Course Facilitator and the Lead Advisory Coach. For the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office ZTC Technical Assistance Program, she serves as a Curriculum Developer, Training Coordinator, and Course Facilitator. Her passions for social justice, equity, innovation, and student success are illuminated in her work. When she’s not teaching, you might discover her behind the turntables DJing, in the dance studio working on her dance technique, or at a soccer field cheering on her two young children.
Management & Co-Directors
James Glapa-Grossklag
Co-director
James.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu
James is Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons. He serves as Technical Assistance Provider for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office for the ZTC Grant Program and co-leads the Open for Antiracism Program with CCCOER. He is past Board President of Open Education Global, CCCOER, and DETCHE. He is currently OER Fellow for the Michelson 20MM Foundation and a faculty member in the AAC&U Institute on OER. He earned tenure as a faculty member in history.
Dr. Laura M. Dunn
Co-director
In addition to co-directing Open for Antiracism, Laura oversees assessment and the academic writing program Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dharma Studies, a scholarly publication focused on Asian and Transcultural Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics. Laura’s current research examines how indigenous knowledge systems intersect with cross cultural contemplative practices as a means to reclaim identity in post- and neo-colonial contexts. She is an award-winning writer with numerous accolades, such as the Chan Writing Award and the Borsch-Rast Dissertation Award. She is a Newhall Fellow, Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow, and recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Association for Asian Studies Publication Grant. She is an animal advocate, enjoys meditation, fitness, photography, and nature, and lives in the Bay Area.
Liz Yata
Manager of CCCOER Communities, Open Education Global
Liz has been working for OEGlobal since 2017. She manages, coordinates, and supports the activities of OEGlobal’s regional node for US community colleges, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), which includes membership, online events, workshops, webinars, and social media. Liz also provides support for major global events such as the annual Open Education Global Conference and Open Education Week.
After earning her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California Davis, Liz worked at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA as Lab Safety Intern and as a web administrator at College Open Textbooks where she first learned and became interested in open textbooks.
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