Center for Teaching & Learning: Get Support

Instructional Support

Mary Soojian

Executive Director

mary.soojian@mcphs.edu
508-373-5899

Overseeing the Instructional Support team, Mary works to ensure that faculty and staff are able to develop and deliver engaging and effective instruction.  With a technical background and extensive online learning experience from a student's perspective, she hopes to demystify the bits and bytes and help faculty embrace opportunities to reach their students in a variety of ways to meet both the learning objectives of their course and the needs of the learners.

Instructional Technology

Paul Brydges

Instructional Technology Specialist

paul.brydges@mcphs.edu

Do you have a question on how to incorporate technology into your classroom teaching, or is there an aspect of Blackboard you were curious about? Paul, our Instructional Technology Specialist, will be happy to help you brainstorm how to make the maximum impact with your students' learning experience by integrating technologies to support teaching and learning!

Research Support

Shanti Freundlich

Assistant Director for Library Assessment & Online Learning

shanti.freundlich@mcphs.edu
617-735-1088

Instructional Design

Reena Lederman Gerard

Senior Instructional Designer / Project Manager

reena.ledermangerard@mcphs.edu
508-373-5892

Are you interested in active learning, flipped classrooms, assessment options, hybrid course design, linking your course objectives with your assessments? Contact Reena to learn more about course design grounded in teaching and learning theory.

Instructional Design

Kathryn Link

Instructional Designer

kathryn.link@mcphs.edu

With interests in Open Education Resources (OER) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Kathy is happy to assist faculty with creating and editing courses to serve students and their quest to learn course material.

Faculty Development

Lisa Irish

Director of Faculty Development and Academic Affairs

lisa.irish@mcphs.edu
508-373-5878

As a key member of the Academic Affairs/Provost Office, Lisa oversees all aspects of faculty development and academic affairs.  She provides strategic leadership for the Office of Faculty Development, collaborating with faculty and staff to support faculty development and teaching and learning excellence.