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Platinum Award

DISSEMINATE & LEAD

The Platinum Award in Teaching Development recognizes scholarly dissemination and leadership in the area of teaching and learning.

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Faculty are listed in Alphabetical Order by last name.  Their names are followed by the title of their project.  

2024-2025 Recipients

  • Sarah Andreas: Present about Ungrading Gamification at Lilly Conference in Asheville
  • Rachael Blasiman: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mixed-Methods Approach
  • Pratim Datta: Using Industry Teaching Cases for Teaching Best Practices Dissemination
  • Sheren Farag: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mixed-Methods Approach
  • Kristine Harrington: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mix-Methods Approach

Faculty are listed in alphabetical order by their last name.  Their names are followed by the title of the their Platinum Teaching Award Project Title

2023-2024 Recipients

  • Hussein Abu-Rayyash: Multimodal Subtitle Learning: An Evaluation of Language Acquisition Impacts
  • Sabrina Badali: Can Successive Relearning Enhance Performance on Application-Based Exam Questions?
  • Tracy Dodson: Exploring Undergraduate Nursing Students' Ineffective Communication Behaviors in Simulation: A Thematic Analysis
  • Jill Kawalec: The Effect of Incentives on the Use of Successive Relearning Statistics Concepts
  • Chia-Ling Kuo: Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course
  • Sara Koopman: Teaching Peace by Using Nonviolent Communication for Difficult Conversations in the College Classroom
  • Elena Novak: Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course
  • Janet Reed: Exploriig Undergraduate Nursing Students' Ineffective Communication Behaviors in Simulation
  • Michelle Souza: Collaborative Technology in the Costume Classroom: Miro

2022-2023 Recipients

  • Enrico Gandolfi: Crafting Preservice Teachers Engagement: The Potential of Minecraft.edu for Multimodal Literacy in Higher Education
  • Maren Greve: Can Successive Relearning Enhance performance on Application-Based Exam Questions
  • Paul Hurley: Re-Assessing Participation in the Acting Classroom
  • Grace Keenan:  Costume History:  New Strategies in Teaching
  • Daniela Popescu:  Enhancing Active Learning of Anatomy and Physiology

Previous Award Recipients

  • Tracy Dodson:  Understanding nursing student choice in completion of pre-simulation activities
  • Richard Ferdig:  Collaborative Gaming as An Agent of Motivation to Increase Retention in Online Learning
  • Richard Ferdig:  Gaming and anxiety in the nursing simulation lab: A pilot study of an escape room
  • Richard Ferdig:  Understanding Nursing Student
  • Richard Ferdig:  Teaching the Game, Volumes 1 and 2
  • Enrico Gandolfi:  Collaborative Gaming as An Agent of Motivation to Increase Retention in Online Learning
  • Enrico Gandolfi:  Teaching the Game, Volumes 1 and 2
  • Jill Kawalec:  Effect of the Jigsaw Method in Enhancing Learning of Biostatistics in a Medical School Curriculum
  • Jessica Leveto:  Career Pathways in Sociology, Criminology and Justice Studies
  • Barbara George:  Applying Linguistic Diversity - Multilingual Students
  • Mary Parr:  Critical Pedagogy and the "Diversity Course:" Preparing for Change
  • Janet Reed:  Gaming and anxiety in the nursing simulation lab: A pilot study of an escape room
  • Rekha Sharma:  Building Stronger Classroom Communities by Encouraging Cultural Humility
  • Ana Wetzl: Addressing Erasure - Networking Language Justice Advocacy for Multilingual Students in the Rustbelt  
  • Haithem Zourrig:  Smartphone-Based Virtual Reality as an Immersive Tool for Teaching Marketing Concepts