Opened Practices Users with the Title: Assistant Professor

I am an Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences program at Indiana University.

The overarching theme in my program of research is an examination of how people learn through activity. Learning through activity involves interacting with other people, physical objects, and ideas. Physical objects can range from actual flowers and drawings that label their parts to computer simulations. Similarly, ideas include individual beliefs and preferences, the rules that groups such as classrooms follow, and historically developed concepts that span generations. My research examines how individuals coordinate their actions and ideas within these complex settings, and how this can lead to learning.

A major focus of my work has been examining how young students (5-7 years old) create representations while learning about complex science concepts.

To unpack the process through which individual students engage in and learn through activity, my work is driven by empirical studies that examine:

* The process through which students create and use material representational tools such as drawings, graphs, and computer simulations when they are learning new concepts.
* The reciprocal way in which individual students contribute their own ideas to complex activity systems and appropriate knowledge from those systems.
* The design of new activities and computational tools to support learning while also revealing theoretical and practical insights into how learning ocurrs.

601 University Dr.
Department of Criminal Justice

I am an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Texas State University -- San Marcos

1501 West Bradley Avenue

I graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a doctorate in chemistry and went to work for Monsanto Company as a chemist for more than 20 years. I rose through the ranks to be come a Fellow in Corporate Research. My position was eliminated in a corporate downsizing in 1999. I then spent the following three years at Washington University in St. Louis as a Research Scientist in the Dept. of Chemistry and returned to the industrial world for another 6 years before assuming my present position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bradley University.

During my time as an industrial scientist I was continuously teaching and training junior scientists in order to increase their on-the-job effectiveness. I enjoyed this responsibility and made it a personal goal to one day make a career change and take a full-time teaching position at a college or university. My first formal college teaching experience came in 2007 at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I taught an advanced analytical chemistry course to graduate students. This experience was actually a part-time assignment I did while still employed full-time in industry. The experience solidified my career goal to do full-time college teach and the opportunity to do so came in 2009 in the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bradley University. My primary teaching responsibility at Bradley is the Analytical Chemistry sequence which is required of all chemistry and biochemistry majors. My main teaching interest in this position is provide students the knowledge they will need to do "real-world" science in the private companies where many of them will find employment. A critical element of doing science in industry is developing a high level of skill with electronic acquisition, reduction and archiving systems for managing research information. My students need exposure to modern research data management techniques and the Wiki tool is Sakai has provided me with the means to develop an electronic laboratory notebook for students to use in performing laboratory experiments which are part of the courses I teach. It is my desire to institutionalize this approach across in the university's science departments, starting with other upper-division chemistry courses. I believe the experiences gained using electronic laboratory notebooks will give Bradley students a competitive edge early in their professional careers and launch them towards long-term career success.

612 McBryde Hall
Department of Engineering Education
Virginia Tech

Christopher B. Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he directs the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments reflects his diverse research interests which include layered manufacturing, design methodology, and design education. As a member of an instructional team that orchestrated a service-learning design project for the first-year engineering program, Professor Williams has been recently awarded the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Outreach Excellence Award. Dr. Williams is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

601 University Dr.
214 Centennial Hall
TX State University

I am an assistant professor of Spanish at Texas State University, having received my PhD from Emory University in 2006. In addition to Spanish classes ranging from second year language to grad courses, I have taught in the Honor's Program and with University Seminar.

Zhuque Avenue

I am Wnag JIeyi,Engilsh name Ben., teaching in Chang'an University. With this book, I could have a further understanding of Community College in U.S.A..

6832 Convent Blvd.

*3 years as Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Lourdes College
*Ph.D. in British and American Literature from the University of Utah
*10 years experience with distance learning/eLearning teaching
*6 years experience as an instructional designer/technology specialist

401 Sunset Ave

See http://www.uwindsor.ca/rangan

3209 Harrison Ave., NW #143

Instructor, Family and Consumer Sciences, Zayed University (1999-2002)
Instructor, Human Development and Family Sciences (2002-2008)
Assistant Professor, Adult Basic Education Garrett Heyns Education Center, Centralia Community College

33 nebhena street

I'm born in Tunis in 1980.I was graduted of english language and literature of Higher in Institute of modern languages in 2004.I got my master degree in transcultural studies in 2006.Now,I am preparing my PHD .

Indiana University East
Middlefork Hall 362
2325 Chester Boulevard

Victoria Simpson Beck is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University East. Her published works have appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Juvenile and Family Court Journal, the Journal of Psychiatry and Law, the Journal of Violence and Victims, Youth Violence: Delinquency Monsters and Myths, and the International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice. She engages in community service work with prisoners in the federal system. Her research interests include juvenile diversion programs, sex-offender notification policies, corrections and online learning.

2700 Lake Pine Path #102

Research interests include online learning, service learning and technology integration into PK12

I'm a math teacher working in educational computing subjects.

I am a university of minnesota faculty member in medical education that teaches other how to use portfolios (electronic. I would like to demonstrate a platform that is not institution specific and that is portable, thus my interest here.

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