Presenters: Bill McCarthy, Glenn Ellis, Jeannette Riley, Rosemary Karr, Tracey McKenzie, Kurt Fischer
Run Time: 41 minutes
This course is worth 2 hours (0.2 CEU) of professional development. A certificate of completion can be printed once the program has been completed.
About this Course
the classroom and online.
Presenters Include:
Bill McCarthy, Professor of Criminal Justice; Quinsigamond Community College
Bill McCarthy is a graduate of Anna Maria College, Clark University, and Louisiana State University. His interests include white-collar crime, cybercrime, and terrorism with a special focus on instructional methodologies and learning styles, which helped earned him the Sloan Consortium Excellence in Online Teaching Award in 2006. He was also honored with NISOD Excellence Award in 2007. He teaches both in the classroom and online and continues to advocate for student access to quality academic experiences, the promotion of intellectual freedom, and to utilize learning style methodologies in the delivery of course content to students who possess a variety of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Glenn Ellis, Associate Professor of Engineering; Smith College
Glenn Ellis teaches courses in engineering mechanics, artificial intelligence, and educational methods for teaching science and engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University. The winner of numerous teaching awards, Dr. Ellis received the 2007 U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Baccalaureate Colleges from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. His research focuses on applying the findings from the learning sciences to encourage deep, intentional learning in K-16 engineering classrooms.
Jeannette Riley, Professor of English and Women's Studies; UMass Dartmouth
With a Ph.D. in English from the University of New Mexico, Jeannette Riley is currently a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UMass Dartmouth. Her research interests focus on women’s literature, with an emphasis on contemporary women writers and feminist theory. She publishes in the area of feminist and online pedagogy and recently co-authored a composition textbook, Writer/ Citizen (2010). In 2008, Riley received the Sloan-C award for Excellence in Online Teaching. Through an innovative blend of instructional technologies, she seeks to create learner-centered courses that strive to deepen student interactions and reflection so that they are actively involved in constructing knowledge and learning how to work effectively within an engaged discursive community.
Rosemary Karr, Professor of Developmental Mathematics; Collin College
With a B.S and M.A. from Eastern Kentucky University, Rosemary Karr earned her Ph. D from the University of North Texas. A professor at Collin College since 1990, Professor Karr has written three textbooks, more than 10 solutions manuals, presented numerous papers and has been an active member in multiple educational associations. She has been honored as Outstanding Professor four times by Collin College, and has received national and state recognitions as U.S. Professor of the Year (2007), Outstanding Service to Developmental Education Students (NADE, 2007), Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning (1996), and the 2008 Texas Minnie Stevens Piper Professor.
Tracey McKenzie, Professor of Sociology; Collin College
Tracey McKenzie received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas, where she also earned an M.S. degree in Sociology, a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and a B.A. in English Literature. She joined Collin College as a full-time professor of sociology in 1999 and has taught Introduction to Sociology, Human Sexuality, Social Problems, Minority Studies, and Student Leadership courses. Recently honored as U.S. Professor of the Year in 2009, she has developed the curriculum and taught several interdisciplinary learning community classes integrating sociology with American History, Computer Science, Spanish, Statistics, and American Government.
Kurt Fischer, Professor and Director of Mind, Brain and Education; Harvard University
Dr. Kurt Fischer leads an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to education and is founding editor of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education (Blackwell), which received the award for Best New Journal by the Association of American Publishers. As Director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program and Charles Bigelow Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he does research on cognition, emotion, and learning and their relation to biological development and educational assessment. In his research, he has discovered a general scale that provides tools for assessing learning and development in any domain. His most recent books include The Educated Brain and Mind, Brain, and Education in Reading Disorders.
