Karen Skibba, Ph.D., specializes in online and blended faculty development and developing quality online and blended courses. She is an inaugural member of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in July 2021. From 2014 to 2022, she was the program manager of a faculty learning community called TeachOnline@UW which helped nearly 450 instructors learn how to design and teach quality online courses. She also develops and facilitates a variety of learning communities and workshops and develops resources to help all instructors enhance teaching and learning.  One of these resources is the Course Success Self-Review, a unique survey tool leads instructors through a self-directed course analysis. The self-review provides targeted feedback, based on a research-based framework of high-impact recommendations. The corresponding Course Success website offers instructors detailed explanations, rationale, and links to relevant resources that support instruction in different modalities. The Course Success Self Review has achieved impact nationally, through presentations in multiple professional conferences and as an exemplar project in the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report. Karen has authored book chapters on educational technologies and online and blended teaching and faculty development. Book chapters include topics on the adult learning influence on the faculty learning cycle: individual and shared reflections while learning to teach online lead to pedagogical transformations. She authored and co-authored three chapters on blended learning found in in the Blended Learning: Research Perspectives book series published by the Sloan-Consortium. and co-authored a chapter on experiential learning activities for leisure and enrichment travel education.

She presents her award-winning research at international conferences, including EDUCAUSE, Online Learning Consortium, Professional and Organizational Development, and the Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison. Karen received her doctoral degree in Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her dissertation focused on how faculty members learn to teach adult learners in a blended program. Karen received a Master's Degree in Communication Studies from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. She has taught college-level communication and online/blended course development courses and seminars.