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Jennifer Smith is an instructional Designer with the center for Instructional Technology and Training. Formerly, she taught costume technology in the Department of Theatre and Dance as a tenured associate professor.

Dr. James Zimmerman - is the Director of the Christian A. Johnson Institute for Effective Teaching at Rollins College. A nuclear chemist with a long interest in learning and teaching issues, James has participated in faculty professional development activities at the local, national, and international level. These activities have included developing a Teaching Fellowship program that supports faculty interested in SoTL studies, designing assessment protocols for multi-campus projects, the mentoring of university and college faculty team projects designed to improve college learning environments with an emphasis on addressing issues that often discourage women and minorities from pursuing study in the sciences or mathematics, and presenting the NSF-sponsored Multi-Initiative Dissemination (MID) project curriculum to cohorts of science faculty from a wide-range of academic institutions. Dr. Zimmerman has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in general, nuclear, and physical chemistry and has won several university awards for his teaching. His scholarly agenda currently includes program, project, and classroom assessment, integrative learning theory, and traditional faculty development. He comes to Rollins from Montclair State University where he served as the Associate Director of the Research Academy for University Learning where he worked with the Academy’s founding director, Ken Bain, author of the best selling book What the Best College Teachers Do.

1111 Mercer Dr

Instructional Designer in Online and Distance Education at the University of Florida

I have been in higher education for 12 years, most of which was in a public community college setting. I also worked in a public university and am now with a private, non-profit university. My experience has been primarily in administration. My current role is advising departments in creating assessment plans, helping locate tools, creating support materials, etc.