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Teaching in Higher Ed · 2026-05-28 · 39 min · 7,105 words

How to Engage Learners in Online Courses, with Denise Maduli Williams

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Today on episode number 624 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, How to Engage Learners in Online Courses with Denise Madouly Williams. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even.

more present for our students. In today's episode, I'm joined by Denise Medouli Williams, professor of English and ELAC at San Diego Miramar College. Denise's teaching journey, as you'll hear in the interview, spans from the Peace Corps in Botswana to classrooms in prisons and public schools all of which inform her deeply human and relational approach to teaching in general and online learning specifically. We look at how to design engaging, inclusive online courses that really meet students where they are, both in their own learning and also in their unique contexts.

And Denise shares practical strategies grounded in universal design for learning, accessibility, and connection. Denise Maddouly Williams, welcome to Teaching in Higher Ed. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to have this conversation.

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