Category: Faculty Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight – Alma Mintu-Wimsatt

Dr. Alma Mintu-Wimsatt, Marketing & Management Creating Effective and Personalized Courses I have long been involved with technology mediated learning since its introduction at A & M- Commerce. More than 15 years, the College of Business & Technology used ITV (interactive television) to deliver our courses to multiple campuses in the Northeast TX area. Today, …

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Faculty Spotlight – Jiaming Sun

Dr. Jiaming Sun, Sociology & Criminal Justice Fundamental, Innovative, and Effective Use of Instructional Strategies in eCollege I have been using eCollege to facilitate my teaching for both online courses and face-to-face courses (web-enhanced) for several years. I felt that, by using eCollege, its beneficial not only to the professor to organize course materials, incorporate …

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Faculty Spotlight – Hasan Coskun

Dr. Hasan Coskun, Mathematics Using Adobe Connect to Record Lectures My main objective in distance education classes as far as content delivery is considered has been to closely simulate traditional lecture style while I integrate computer mathematics software into classroom instruction. I make use of mathematics and statistics software such as Mathematica, MATLAB, Geometer’s Sketchpad …

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Faculty Spotlight – Sherri Colby

Dr. Sherri Colby, Curriculum & Instruction Instructor Authored Films and Active Learning For my web enhanced courses, I create films on course material using my own digital photography.  My films integrate the famous “Ken Burns approach” for documentary film making. In his historical documentaries, Ken Burns created interest through zooming, panning, and scanning still images …

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Faculty Spotlight – Rusty Waller

Dr. Rusty Waller, Educational Leadership Using YouTube in Online Courses To facilitate student mastery of the content, the course is divided into 10 modules ranging from introductory material to the chi-squared distribution. In the last month, short lectures (4-10 minutes) for each of the first five modules have been uploaded to YouTube for broader dissemination …

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