Judges for Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award 2011
The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee is honored to introduce the distinguished individuals who will serve as judges for the fourth annual competition for this international award.
Dr. Alec Couros - is a professor of educational technology and media and the Coordinator of Information and Communications Technology at the Faculty of Education , University of Regina. Alec also serves as the Assistant Director of the Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit. Alec is scholar and advocate of openness in distributed learning environments. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, social learning, instructional design, digital citizenship and critical media literacy. Alec blogs at http://couros.ca
Noriah Ismail is a senior lecturer at MARA University of Technology Malaysia. Her areas of interest include research in education and technology, CALL and ESL writing. She is currently an editorial board member, associate editor, honorary committee reviewer for a number of leading international conferences, proceedings and journals including IOLC (International Online Language Conference), ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education)conference, JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) international conference proceeding, The Global Studies Journal, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, The International Journal of Learning, TESOL Journal, MERLOT JOLT and ELT Journal (Oxford University Press). In addition, she has served as a panelist and judge for several prestigious international competitions and Awards which include the present World Pulse Voices of Our Future (VOF) 2010 - an exciting Web 2.0, citizen journalism and empowerment training program for emerging female leaders from countries across the globe and also the MEDEA (Media in Education) Awards 2010 currently held in Brussels.
Ken Masters (FDE, PhD) has been involved in education for more than 25 years, and in online education for 15 years, in both support and academic roles. He has published widely in the field of online education, and is co-author of the AMEE Guide to e-Learning in Medical Education. Previously at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, he is now Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Journal of Medical Education.
Dr. Lawrence C. Ragan is the director of instructional design and development for Penn State's World Campus. Dr. Ragan is charged with directing the design and development of learning spaces for PSU online learners. He is responsible for directing the integration of a wide range of electronic media technologies into the instructional process in order to create dynamic, student-centered learning systems. Dr. Ragan coordinates the design and delivery of faculty development seminars and training programs for Penn State’s World Campus. Dr. Ragan has taught for over 6 years online and has designed and managed a variety of learning spaces. Dr. Ragan is a frequent workshop coordinator and has presented internationally on the topics of instructional design, multimedia development, faculty development issues and instructional design for distance education. Dr. Ragan has also served as the co-director of the EDUCAUSE Institute for Learning Technologies Leadership Program
Dr. Laurie Richlin is Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. She previously was the Director of the Claremont Graduate University Preparing Future Faculty and Learning Communities Program. In addition, she is Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - West, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University, and her dissertation research on alternative doctoral scholarship received the national Gratzke award from the American Association of University Administrators. Her most recent publication is the book Blueprint for Learning: Constructing Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning(Stylus, 2006). She has taught the courses "The Academic Career," "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education," "New Orleans: Legacy and Promise," "Journalism," "Career Development," capstone courses in Education, and writing and research methods courses in several disciplines. Richlin developed and implemented the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, was "Educator in Residence" at four small colleges in Kentucky and Indiana under a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, and served as Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Pittsburgh before returning to California.
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.
