This grant program aimed to enhance teacher capacity in delivering high-quality STEM experiences by offering them tailored content courses as adult learners.
Collaborating with faculty from the Physics and Engineering departments, I
Developed a program-level strategy for a cutting-edge, 5-course graduate certificate program.
Implemented the Backward by Design approach, similar to ADDIE, to create a comprehensive program that prepares students for real-world challenges.
Led course development for f2f, hybrid, and full online courses on multiple LMS platforms (including Blackboard, Moodle, and Canvas).
Collaborated with SMEs to design courses, co-teach, assess and publish results.
Published findings in peer reviewed journals.
Program and Course Development
ROLE: Adjunct Teaching Professor, Senior Curriculum and Professional Development Specialist
Big ideas
Developed a five course sequence for graduate certificate program in collaboration with physics and engineering faculty using Backward by Design (similar to ADDIE).
Energy surfaced as a focal point and included developing courses in energy production, energy issues and engineering solutions for the future.
These courses were face to face, hybrid online and full online courses using Blackboard, Moodle and Canvas.
Our design was informed by earlier research our organization collected which found that instructors who understood the subject matter better led to more successful students.
e-Learning
Developed a graduate course on understanding global climate change for face to face, hybrid online and full online approaches. The syllabus shows the enduring understandings that I developed using Backward by Design.
Outcomes included:
Peer reviewed publishing an article in Science Scope that outlines an engineering project on heat and temperature.
Collaboration
Designed and co-taught two other graduate courses including a course on engineering solutions to energy systems.
Outcomes included:
Peer reviewed publications and presentations through ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) on barriers and opportunities in teaching systems thinking skills to pre-college instructors.
Peer reviewed publications and presentations on knowledge and confidence gained by students from teaching of vectors in a graduate course.
Collaborations with faculty led to other grant proposals to NSF and NOAA. My contributions included background research on motivation as well as designing the implementation plan.
Engineering Solutions Syllabus
The capstone course for the graduate certificate focused on engineering solutions to energy issues.
I co-taught the course with Dr. Frank Fisher.