Conferences & Publications

Conference Presentations

Impactful Interactions in Instructional Design Mentorship - Florida ID Network Webinar - March 2026
Mentor Programs That Work: Evidence-Based Practices for Higher Education - Lancaster Learns - February 2026
Designing Recorded Lecture Experiences That Inspire Learning - Lancaster Learns - February 2025
Nourishing and Sustainable Feedback for Students - Lancaster Learns - February 2024
Universal Design for Learning Roundtable - Eli Lilly Bethesda - May 2019
UDL: Playing to Everyone's Strengths - Lancaster Learns - February 2019
Group Work That Works - Harrisburg Area Community College Cite Symposium - January 2019
Making the Case for ePortfolios - Lancaster Learns - February 2016
Empowering Students with ePortfolios - Montgomery County Community College Technology in Education - October 2016

Publications

Dietrich, M. (2024). Impactful Interactions in a Career-Oriented Formal Mentor Program: A Qualitative Descriptive Case Study (Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University).
Dietrich, M. (In press.) Impactful interactions in instructional design mentorship. In R. Mancilla & B. Frey (Eds.), Mentoring instructional designers: Professional development in higher education. Routledge.

Conference Co-Founder

In 2013, I co-founded a local annual higher education conference. The Center for Innovative Teaching Excellence coordinator and I scheduled a meeting with two representatives of a nearby university to discuss ways in which we could collaborate. During the meeting, I mentioned how expensive many of the national professional development conferences are, and how it might be beneficial to consider creating a regional conference where our own talented faculty could share and learn from one another. It was in that moment that "Lancaster Learns" was born!

Lancaster Learns is now in its 11th year and is sponsored by 12 regional colleges and universities. It typically draws an audience of nearly 200 for a day of professional growth, learning, and collegiality. I served on the Lancaster Learns planning committee from 2013-2019.

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