Opened Practices Users Working at: Indiana University
506 Eigenmann Hall
I study participatory approaches to instruction, assessment, and motivation, mostly in e-learning, videogaming, and new media contexts.
I use design-based research methods and situative theories of cognition to improve instruction. I focus on assessment and motivation, and work in a range of digital environments. Now I am mostly focusing on a comprehensive model called Designing for Participation (DFP). DFP is a design-based model for directly fostering participation that also leads to enduring understanding and increased achievement. I also teach graduate courses in the Learning Sciences program.
Geology Department
10th Street
Indiana University
Jeremy Dunning is a professor of geophysics at Indiana University. Dunning was one of the early adopters of technology in education in the late 1980’s. He was coauthor of the first interactive textbook, the award winning In TerraActive. He has won a number of awards for his work in this arena including the 2006 Ernest Boyer Award. This award “honors the world's highly creative men and women who have contributed significantly to teaching, learning and technology in higher education. Nominees for the award are chosen in institution-wide searches and have contributed in highly creative ways to teaching, learning and technology.” Dunning has previously won the 2006 innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology from Teach-Learn.org, the Alfred Sloan Foundation Sloan-C Best Practices Award (2003), the ACHE Novel Use of Technology Award (2004), the ICI Gold Medal (2003), three Envisage New Media finalist awards for his CDROM In-Terra Active (1995), the distinguished course award from the University Continuing Education Association (1997). He has won three best paper awards at international conferences on teaching and learning, was the 1996 Distinguished Fellow at the Agency for Instructional Technology, and was the 1986 Hearst Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. Dunning is also the developer of the award winning TALON repurposeable learning object templates, which are used by four of the five largest publishers in the world, 83 universities and several ministries of education around the world. He is also the founder and president of Arjuna Multimedia and has active teaching and research programs at Indiana University, where he won this year’s Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award. Dunning is the author of over 120 articles, eight CDROM textbooks, and five books.
1021 E Third street
Alwiya Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Dr. Omar is from Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Alwiya S. Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University,
Bloomington. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Her recent publications include a co-authored advanced Kiswahili text book Tuwasilianae kwa Kiswahili ‘Let’s Communicate in Kiswahili’ with L. Rushubirwa, National African Language Resource Center, 2007; and two articles on Kiswahili Pragmatics: “Kiswahili requests: Performance of Native Speakers and learners” in K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Felix-Brasdefer, A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Hawaii Press, 2006; and “Kanga Captions: Social and Political Communication with Application to Kiswahili Language Teaching and Learning,” in L. Moshi and A. Ojo (Eds.), Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2009. She has also participated in several web based resources for Kiswahili language teaching and learning. Some of these resources can be found at:
http://www.africa.uga.edu/Kiswahili/doe/index.html and
http://www.indiana.edu/~afritalk/ (to access the different language sites on this project email aomar@indiana.edu for username and password)
