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Bring energy and clarity to your campus or conference.

Dr. E delivers keynotes, faculty development sessions, and hands-on workshops on online teaching, flipped learning, AI in education, and student engagement — designed for real classrooms.

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See Dr. E live at OTC 2025 in Long Beach

Watch the full keynote presented to a ballroom of California educators and professors at the Online Teaching Conference 2025 — a real look at how Dr. E teaches the room to teach like a YouTuber.

Engage Like a YouTuber: Transforming Online Teaching with Video

Peter Esperanza · Faculty, Barstow Community College · Online Teaching Conference (OTC 2025) · Long Beach, CA

In the rapidly evolving landscape of online education, instructors must embrace creativity and innovation to foster genuine student engagement and connection. This session provides community college faculty with practical strategies for adopting a content creator mindset to elevate their virtual teaching. Drawing from over a decade of experience as a YouTube content creator with over 340,000 YouTube subscribers, Dr. E shares affordable tools and techniques to help educators create professional-quality videos that not only enhance course content but also establish a consistent, relatable presence in the online classroom.

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Speaking topics

Sessions Dr. E delivers

Each topic can be delivered as a keynote, half-day workshop, or full faculty development series.

Teach It Like You Stream It

How educators can borrow from creator culture to teach online with presence, energy, and clarity.

Camera presence and on-screen energy
The 3-layer rule for engagement
Studio-style Zoom workflows

Flipped Learning That Actually Works

Practical strategies for designing flipped classrooms that students actually engage with — beyond just "watch this video."

Designing pre-class video that lands
Making in-class time count
Accountability without busywork

AI in Education

How instructors can integrate AI tools into prep, grading, content creation, and student support — ethically and effectively.

AI for lesson and assessment design
Workflow automation for educators
Teaching students to use AI well

Student Engagement Online

Concrete techniques for boosting participation, attendance, and learning outcomes in online and hybrid courses.

Regular and substantive interaction (RSI)
Discussion design that drives thinking
Building community at a distance

Three ways to bring Dr. E in

Pick the format that fits your school, district, or event.

Every engagement is tailored to your audience — K-12, higher ed, conference, or faculty development.

Workshops

Hands-on, interactive training where every participant leaves with something they recorded, drafted, or planned during the session.

Audience: Teacher teams, departments, college faculty, and PD-day cohorts (10–80 people)
Format: 2–4 hour live sessions, on-site or virtual. Bring your laptop, leave with work in progress.
Outcome: Participants walk away with a recorded sample lesson, a refined Zoom workflow, or a flipped lesson plan they can use immediately.

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Keynotes & Speaking

Big-room talks built around story, energy, and a clear takeaway. The kind of opening session that sets the tone for the whole event.

Audience: Conferences, district kickoffs, college all-faculty events, EdTech summits (50–2,000+ attendees)
Format: 30–60 minute keynote, in-person or virtual, with optional Q&A or panel.
Outcome: The room leaves energized, aligned around a clear idea (AI in education, flipped learning, online presence), and ready to act.

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Ongoing PD & Faculty Development

A multi-session program across a semester or year. The right fit when one workshop isn't enough and your institution wants real change.

Audience: Schools, colleges, and districts ready to invest in sustained instructional growth
Format: 4–8 sessions over a semester or year, with coaching, deliverables between sessions, and ongoing access to Dr. E.
Outcome: Faculty build a shared online-teaching toolkit, ship real lessons, and shift institutional culture around online and hybrid instruction.

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