Opened Practices Users with the Title: Associate Professor

University of Delaware
524 Ewing Hall

My favorite topics to teach involve flavors of numerical analysis, differential equations, calculus and modeling. I believe students learn best when they have strong basic skills, make use of all the available resources, and engage in large scale problem solving drawn from either contemporary issues or current research. I measure my success by how well my students retain what they have learned in the long term.

History Department, Indiana University
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue

I am a mid-career, associate professor of History at Indiana University, where I have taught for twenty years, after a three-year stint at Southwest Texas State University. I have been involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning for the past eight years and I also teach in our graduate pedagogy program.

I am an associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in the history of medieval Europe. My disciplinary research considers medieval historical writing. I have published a monograph on historical writing in Normandy in the central Middle Ages and a translation of the History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, an early thirteenth-century dynastic history from the Artois. I am currently working on an edition, translation, and study of the Chronicon Andrense, from the same region of France. My involvement with SoTL began with a course portfolio for the Peer Review of Teaching project. I have been a fellow of the Freshman Learning Project, which produced the material for a joint article in Decoding the Disciplines: helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking (New Directions in Teaching and Learning, Summer 2004), written with David Pace and Valerie Grim. With Vicky Gunn, I wrote “Doing SotL: A Cross Atlantic Dialogue Reflecting upon the Nature of Teaching and Learning in Medieval Studies,” which has appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. I am currently a principal investigator (with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and David Pace) in the Indiana University History Department Study of Student Learning in History. We have recently published an article in the Journal of American History, "The History Learning Project: A Department "Decodes" its Students."

601 University Dr

I became interested in implementing and developing more effective learning strategies for juniors and seniors in the biochemistry major in 2002. I began using Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) techniques and soon began to explore ways to incorporate technology into the classroom.

Alan Belcher is associate professor of information technology at the University of Charleston.

Alan Belcher is associate professor of information technology at the University of Charleston. He also holds the position of Assistant Provost for Curriculum and Instruction for the Title III project which allows him the opportunity to work with faculty on improving their classroom practice and for ensuring the University’s on-going change to an outcomes-based environment. Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, he also assumed the position of Registrar. He has an undergraduate degree in French/Spanish with an MA in educational administration and an MS in information systems. He completed his doctoral studies in higher education with emphases in instructional design and assessment. Alan directs professional development activities at the University of Charleston including work on classroom and institutional assessment, increasing faculty and student use of technology in class, and the improvement of in-class practices with faculty. He presents regularly at national conferences on teaching, learning, assessment, and institutional change. Alan has a total of 30 years of teaching experience from elementary school through graduate level.

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Dr. Banister is conducting research in local K-12 schools, focusing on the impact of computer technology on teaching and learning. The multimedia reports coming out of this research have been funded, in part, through Project PICT, a national PT3 grant. She has also received funding through the Ohio Learning Network for her work in online course development and from the National Council for Community and Educational Partnerships.

Chair of Theatre Arts, Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina.

I am an Associate Professor and Director of Mentor Programs in University Studies, Portland State University's interdisciplinary general education program. After working as the Director of Teaching and Learning in the Center for Academic Excellence, I'm returning in the fall to my first love, teaching, and will continue to focus my scholarship on reflection and the impact of e-portfolio construction on student learning and efficacy.