Kari Frisch Bio (Copy from a D2L Conference Request)

Kari Frisch is an online Communication Instructor at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN. She was hired in 2001 and quickly became one of the first instructors to teach online at the campus. She has been highly involved in online development ever since. She helped develop an online course peer-review process for her school, ran the school’s Center for Teaching & Learning, chairs the Online Instruction & Technology Committee, and works as a campus representative for the System Office Campus Academic Technology Team (CATT). She is very involved at the state and international level.  She was appointed to the Minnesota State College (MnSCU) Faculty’s State Technology & eLearning Committee and the MnSCU State Captioning Assessment Project Ad Hoc group after working with her campus Disabilities Coordinator and LMS Coordinator in designing and developing a closed-captioning process for her campus. Besides having a Quality Matters certified course, she has also completed the course to be a national reviewer. For the last 5 years she has also served on the international Steering Committee for D2L Brightspace’s Global Fusion Conference and was appointed this year to the Instructional Technology Council’s (ITC) eLearning Conference Committee. In July of 2016, she was named the eLearning Coordinator for the CLC campus.

Kari has been a keynote presenter, has done several featured presentations across the United States and has conducted several webinars for both ITC and D2L Brightspace. Her most popular presentation topics are digital storytelling, digital footprints/citizenship, and of course student success and eLearning tips on her high retention. For several years her retention rate has averaged around 95%. That sparked some media recognition including an article on her in a special edition on technology and online education published by the Diverse Issues in Higher Education Journal.  In 2009 she was awarded the MnSCU Outstanding Educator Award. Desire2Learn appointed her to their EduFan Council for distinguished eLearning innovators/pioneers. And she was awarded the 2015 ITC Distinguished eLearning Educator award and the Award for Excellence in eLearning: Outstanding eLearning Faculty.  

For more information see her eLearning interactive portfolio poster at: http://kfrisch.edu.glogster.com/elearning-portfolio