I strive to improve instruction in all its forms, whether in face-to-face, fully online, or blended environments. My main focus is the creation and implementation of instructional modules that promote higher order thinking and have real-world applications.
As a member of the Experiential Education and Learning (ExEL) team at the HCNSO, I collaborate with the ExEL Initiative presented to the class of 2020 and all undergraduate classes moving forward. The ExEL initiative represents a larger cultural shift at NSU, as a component of a university-wide effort to strengthen experiential education in undergraduate curricula. ExEL is designed to expose students to a world of hands-on opportunities that enrich their academic life while helping them reach their professional and personal goals. It provides students with the opportunity of gaining diverse, meaningful experiences, through learning activities designed to enhance the undergraduate experience and benefit undergraduate students both personally and professionally, by providing them with real world, hands on educational opportunities. This initiative is strengthened by the added focus of adapting experiential learning strategies to online course delivery.
My work also involves Online Learning Management Systems, Instructional Technology and Teacher Education, and website management, among others. On any typical day my activities may include any -or all- of the following: working on instructional design projects, teaching a workshop for faculty, helping a professor plan instruction for a course, producing, filming and/or editing an instructional video, conducting program evaluations, organizing faculty meetings, presenting at national or international conferences, collaborating with administration in needs assessment, program development, implementation, and evaluation, and/or publishing in a variety of media. Those are the main ones, but there are many more! Now, if you asked me what I enjoy the most? The answer would definitely be helping educators discover a variety of instructional strategies to make each course the best it can be.
In a nutshell, I believe that all the tools in the world, from a pencil to an I-pad, can never replace a well-trained teacher.
OK! Now that I shared some of my main activities, below please find a collage of present and past adventures, with faculty, students, friends, and colleagues over the years. Good times :)
As a member of the Experiential Education and Learning (ExEL) team at the HCNSO, I collaborate with the ExEL Initiative presented to the class of 2020 and all undergraduate classes moving forward. The ExEL initiative represents a larger cultural shift at NSU, as a component of a university-wide effort to strengthen experiential education in undergraduate curricula. ExEL is designed to expose students to a world of hands-on opportunities that enrich their academic life while helping them reach their professional and personal goals. It provides students with the opportunity of gaining diverse, meaningful experiences, through learning activities designed to enhance the undergraduate experience and benefit undergraduate students both personally and professionally, by providing them with real world, hands on educational opportunities. This initiative is strengthened by the added focus of adapting experiential learning strategies to online course delivery.
My work also involves Online Learning Management Systems, Instructional Technology and Teacher Education, and website management, among others. On any typical day my activities may include any -or all- of the following: working on instructional design projects, teaching a workshop for faculty, helping a professor plan instruction for a course, producing, filming and/or editing an instructional video, conducting program evaluations, organizing faculty meetings, presenting at national or international conferences, collaborating with administration in needs assessment, program development, implementation, and evaluation, and/or publishing in a variety of media. Those are the main ones, but there are many more! Now, if you asked me what I enjoy the most? The answer would definitely be helping educators discover a variety of instructional strategies to make each course the best it can be.
In a nutshell, I believe that all the tools in the world, from a pencil to an I-pad, can never replace a well-trained teacher.
OK! Now that I shared some of my main activities, below please find a collage of present and past adventures, with faculty, students, friends, and colleagues over the years. Good times :)
ExEL -Experiential Education & Learning-, FYE -First Year Experience-, Instructional Technology & Distance Education; Faculty Development
Conference Presentations
In The Classroom: Teacher Education Program & Experiential Education
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"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people"
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"To improve is to change; to perfect is to change often" - Winston Churchill
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