Five faculty take on innovative projects as CITE fellows
November 7, 2017
Five UAF faculty have been selected for the Chancellor’s Innovation in Technology
and E-learning (CITE) 2017-2018 program. Over the next year, they will work closely
with instructional designers at UAF eLearning on projects that will add value to their
discipline as well as students and community members.Rich Collins, professor of atmospheric science, is expanding the scope of the course Weather and Climate of Alaska (ATM F101X) to engage students around the state, country and potentially internationally in experience- and place-based learning.
Cindy Fabbri, assistant professor of elementary education, is developing a digital platform that gives Alaskans a tool to request assistance on community-driven projects and helps students, faculty and community members locate others working on topics of mutual interest.
Stefanie Ickert-Bond, professor of botany, will enable students to use high-resolution video microscopy while dissecting flowers, empowering them to explore the flora in their area and contribute to the iNaturalist platform and Arctos database.
Danà Sheppard, associate professor of psychology, is investigating quality educational practices in large-scale online courses with the goal of determining the characteristics and factors that impact quality and attainment of learning objectives.
Derek Sikes, associate professor of entomology, is creating a web-based tool that allows online access to the specimen drawers in the Kenelm W. Philip Lepidoptera collection. The historical contextualization of this collection will be unique in the field of lepidoptery.
Discover more about their projects at https://iteachu.uaf.edu/cite/.