Faculty Profile

Sarah Lohnes Watulak

Adjunct Faculty

sarah.lohneswatulak@franklin.edu

Profile

Over the past 25 years, I have worked in higher education as a teacher, researcher, leader, and mentor in the field of educational technology and instructional design. For more information, please visit https://sarahlw.middcreate.net/

Education

2008
Columbia University
Doctor of Education, Communication and Education
2006
Columbia University
Master of Arts, Communication and Education
2000
Connecticut College (Connecticut)
Bachelor of Arts, French

Work Experience

2025 - Present
Franklin University, Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Faculty Advisor
2018 - Present
Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry, Middlebury College, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media
2008 - 2018
Department of Educational Technology and Literacy, Towson University, Assistant & Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
2000 - 2003
Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, Technical Instruction & Support Specialist

Publications & Presentations

Collier, A., & Lohnes Watulak, S. (2026, Oct. 27). Making intentional assessment decisions: A faculty institute for assignment (re)design in the age of AI. AAC&U 2026 Conference on AI and Higher Education.
Lohnes Watulak, S. (2025, Jul. 23). Strategic benefits of online course development as faculty professional learning. UPCEA Summit for Online Leadership and Administration 2025.
Payne, S., Mockler, S., Lohnes Watulak, S., & Collier, A. (2025). Cryptoparties as sites of feminist pedagogy. Feminist pedagogy for teaching online. Athabasca University Press.
Wehr, K., Singh, R., Lohnes Watulak, S., Harlap, A., Collier, A., & Archambault, A. (2024). Co-designing an action-oriented instructional design community: Applying the Design Justice Network principles to shape and inform our collaborative practices. Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 13 (1)
Lohnes Watulak, S., & Collier, A. (2023, Mar. 13). Staff-student partnerships as a pathway for institutional change: The case of the Inclusive Design Studio. Notre Dame Digital Learning Summit.
Collier, A., & Lohnes Watulak, S. (2023). Critical digital pedagogy across learning ecologies: The NOW project. Critical digital pedagogy in higher education: Broadening horizons, bridging theory and practice. Athabasca University Press.
Phillips, N., Smith, A., Woodard, R., Gierhart, A., Johnson, L., Lohnes Watulak, S., & Wargo, K. (2022, Apr. 18). A decade of cultivation: A citation context literature review of connected learning research. American Educational Research Association.
Collier, A., Lohnes Watulak, S., & Henrickson, J. (2022). Centering the margins through critical instructional design. Toward a critical instructional design. Hybrid Pedagogy, Inc.
McQuitty, V., Lohnes Watulak, S., & Runciman, J. (2021). Teacher professional learning in a writing-as-making MOOC. Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, 10 (1)
Collier, A., & Lohnes Watulak, S. (2020, Jun. 15). Mind the gap: Exploring and establishing criticality within a “service” organization. OLC Innovate.
Shaheen, N., & Lohnes Watulak, S. (2019). Bringing disability into the discussion: Examining technology accessibility as an equity concern in the field of instructional technology. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 51 (2)
Lohnes Watulak, S. (2018, Apr. 13). Instructors as brokers of digital learning opportunity: Exploring brokering practices in connected teacher education classrooms. American Educational Research Association.
Lohnes Watulak, S. (2018). Making space for preservice teacher agency through connected learning in preservice educational technology courses. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 34 (3)
Lohnes Watulak, S., Johnson, L., Phillips, N., Smith, A., Wargo, K., & Woodard, R. (2018). Connected teaching and learning in K-16+ contexts: An annotated bibliography. Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education, 18 (2)
Lohnes Watulak, S., & Whitfield, D. (2016). Examining college students’ uptake of Facebook through the lens of domestication theory. E-Learning and Digital Media, 13 (5-6)
Lohnes Watulak, S. (2016). Reflection in action: Using inquiry groups to explore critical digital literacy with pre-service teachers. Educational Action Research, 24 (4)
Smith, A., Phillips, N., Woodard, R., Johnson, L., Wargo, K., Lohnes Watulak, S., Gierhart, A., & Fitzgerald, J. An equity agenda at work: A citation context analysis of connected learning research. Review of Research in Education American Educational Research Association.

Professional Service

2016
Associate Editor
International Journal of Information and Learning Technology
End Date: 2021
2015
Editorial Review Board
Journal of Technology in Teacher Education

Memberships

2021
Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education Network
2018
UPCEA
2003
American Educational Research Association