Harmonize Learning Webinar: Authentic Work, Real Interaction – Designing Anti-Bot, Pro-RSI Courses
Join Los Angeles Community College District and Harmonize Learning for a one-hour practical session on the intersection of Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI) and anti-bot course design. We’ll show how shifting from text-only tasks to multimedia activities, short video/audio reflections, screen-recorded demos, image annotations, and rubric-guided peer review, both hardens courses against AI-bot enrollment/participation and sparks richer instructor to student exchanges.
During the webinar, speakers will compare the time tradeoffs of grading-heavy workflows vs. reallocating that time to higher-value engagement that gets you back to the core of teaching. The session will also cover how to embed these strategies into your online faculty training/prof-dev so instructors can adopt them quickly and confidently. Perfect for deans, instructional designers, and online faculty and distance education leaders.
Speakers
Dr. Wendy Bass-Keer
Distance Education Coordinator at Los Angeles Pierce College
Dr. Wendy Bass is the Distance Education Coordinator and Project Director of Title V grant at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. She obtained her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of California-Los Angeles. Her early research and publications explore early literacy, identifying and supporting children with special needs, and the importance of parent and professional support in helping children with cancer return to school. Wendy has been a passionate instructor of both traditional and online courses in psychology, education and child development since 1998, teaching in both 2-year and 4-year schools in California. As Pierce College’s Distance Education Coordinator, Wendy teaches online courses while establishing campus-wide pedagogical standards.
Jessica Drawbond
Distance Education Coordinator at Los Angeles Community College District
Jessica Drawbond is an Associate Professor of English at LA Southwest College and the Distance Education Coordinator for the Educational Service Center of the Los Angeles Community College District. In this role, she coordinates the distance education training courses and webinars for the nine colleges of the LACCD. She also helps coordinate the distance education efforts and policies of the district colleges.
