Will Diehl

The projects

Ideas are better together.

Work made with students, colleagues, communities, and readers—across classrooms, books, film sets, and the spaces in between.

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Film · education

Arapaho Truths

A PBS-aired, eight-award film made with St. Stephens students, who learned green screen, shadow puppetry, and stop animation while retelling traditional Native stories.

02

Research · writing

Learning at a distance

Books, chapters, and teaching focused on the people and ideas that shaped online, open, distance, and adult education.

03

Editing · publishing

Beyond the Science

An editorial project about the business of drug development, bringing strategy and analysis into conversation with biotechnology practice.

In the archive

A practice built to be shared.

Will's academic work includes the Handbook of Distance Education, 4th Edition, contributions to the SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, and research on the history and future of learning beyond the classroom.

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