A creative, resourceful, and experienced tech-savvy online educator and curriculum developer with significant experience in LMS administration and multimedia design. He has a longstanding concern for the effective alignment of course objectives and assessments with program and institutional outcomes, a scholarly passion for the effective use of multimedia and instructional technology in online instruction, including dialogic learning in teaching, skill at communicating complex technical processes and challenges in an effective and positive way, and experience managing and migrating multiple LMS platforms. Swisher has been in higher education for 21 years, the vast majority of which was in classroom technology and/or developing high-quality online courses with multimedia and technology integrations, and he has held leadership roles with the regional Colleague 2 Colleague organization as Chair, Vice-Chair, Steering Committee, and several ad hoc committees, including by-laws revision, website, and communications. A recipient of the organization's Outstanding Technical Support award, he also led the efforts for the group's first multi-site and virtual conference in 2020, reaching 836 attendees from 211 institutions in 4 countries.He teaches adjunct in several programs:- Graphic Design for Digital Communication (IWU)- Intro to Integrative Studies (IWU)- Technology for Ministry (Tabor)- Ministry Technology in Cultural Context (Tabor)- Enhancing PowerPoint With Multimedia & Interactivity (Tabor)- Discipleship & Ethics (Tabor)- The Sermon on the Mount (Tabor)- Future Studies, co-taught with Len Sweet (Tabor)Prior to his work at IWU, Swisher was the Director of Learning Management Technology at Tabor College (serving as LMS coordinator and director of online learning) and a Classroom Technology specialist at Kansas State Polytechnic. Swisher has an even more unique background. Answering an early call to ministry at age 16, he is an ordained Wesleyan minister in the Crossroads District with 30 years’ ministry experience. Also, he is an expert on copyright & digital media, with over 500 published answers on the subject on the vetted Q&A site Quora. He currently serves in several consulting roles, including Consulting ID for Kingswood University and Digital Church Architect for the Church Multiplication Collective of The Wesleyan Church.