Nine chosen for chancellor’s innovation program
October 21, 2014
Nine UAF faculty members have been chosen as fellows in the Chancellor’s Innovation
in Technology and Elearning program, which supports innovative faculty who teach online
courses and-or use improved technological tools in their classrooms.
The 2014-15 CITE fellows are:
- Nicole Cundiff, business administration
- Daryl Farmer, English
- Joanne Healy, special education
- Doug Haugen, political science
- Sarah Hayes, chemistry and biochemistry
- Christopher Iceman, chemistry and biochemistry
- Sean McGee, homeland security and emergency management
- Roy Roehl, secondary education
- Sabine Siekmann, linguistics
The CITE fellows began the program with a daylong Innovation Lab on Oct. 18, during which they began investigating the process of innovation and brainstorming potential projects with UAF eLearning’s instructional designers. UAF eLearning facilitates the CITE program.
During the year, CITE fellows will break ground in their discipline, present to other faculty, share their findings and ideas, and improve the quality of education offered at UAF.
“Innovation is already occurring at the hands of a small group of UAF faculty, but it often comes at the expense of their own time, money and sanity,” says Madara Mason, UAF eLearning's faculty development coordinator. “We hope to offset some of those sacrifices by providing much needed support and, more importantly, by providing a limelight in which these faculty can share what they’re doing (and learning) with other faculty.”
Last year’s CITE Fellows explored topics including augmented reality, crowdsourcing, gamification and smart plug-ins for cold weather climates. You can learn more about their projects and the CITE fellows program at cite.community.uaf.edu.
CITE fellows are chosen every October. The nomination period for 2015-16 CITE Fellows will open in February. Deans, department heads and previous CITE fellows can nominate faculty for this prestigious program.
