Biography

Jody Ondich teaches Philosophy at  LSC.  She is one of the two faculty development leaders in the college's Program for Online Excellence in Teaching  (POET), serving as the peer review coordinator for LSC.  She is one of four faculty development leaders with LSC's Center for Faculty Innovation. She has been active in the state-wide initiative towards Z degrees, teaching a MinnState system course facilitating the use of OERs and the tool called Pressbooks. She has written three Open Educational Resource texts, one in 2018 called Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy opens in new window a second in 2021 called World Religions: the Spirit Searching, opens in new window and a third  Reading the Bible as Literature: a Journey opens in new window in the fall of 2022.  She designed and teaches two accessibility courses for LSC, and was one of two designers, and teaches, for the Accessibility courses in the Minnesota State College system. When not working, she reads voraciously, plays the piano, sings in a choir, knits and designs knitting patterns, and plays with her 2 orange cats and the family's pup, Rigoletto.