Platinum Award

Faculty are listed in Alphabetical Order by last name.  Their names are followed by the title of their project.  

2024-2025 Recipients

• Sarah Andreas: Present about Ungrading Gamification at Lilly Conference in Asheville
• Rachael Blasiman: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mixed-Methods Approach
• Pratim Datta: Using Industry Teaching Cases for Teaching Best Practices Dissemination
• Sheren Farag: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mixed-Methods Approach
• Kristine Harrington: Student and Instructor Perspectives of Hyflex Courses: A Multidisciplinary Mix-Methods Approach

Faculty are listed in alphabetical order by their last name.  Their names are followed by the title of the their Platinum Teaching Award Project Title

2023-2024 Recipients

• Hussein Abu-Rayyash: Multimodal Subtitle Learning: An Evaluation of Language Acquisition Impacts
• Sabrina Badali: Can Successive Relearning Enhance Performance on Application-Based Exam Questions?
• Tracy Dodson: Exploring Undergraduate Nursing Students' Ineffective Communication Behaviors in Simulation: A Thematic Analysis
• Jill Kawalec: The Effect of Incentives on the Use of Successive Relearning Statistics Concepts
• Chia-Ling Kuo: Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course
• Sara Koopman: Teaching Peace by Using Nonviolent Communication for Difficult Conversations in the College Classroom
• Elena Novak: Creative Computing in an Undergraduate Educational Technology Course
• Janet Reed: Exploriig Undergraduate Nursing Students' Ineffective Communication Behaviors in Simulation
• Michelle Souza: Collaborative Technology in the Costume Classroom: Miro

2022-2023 Recipients

• Enrico Gandolfi: Crafting Preservice Teachers Engagement: The Potential of Minecraft.edu for Multimodal Literacy in Higher Education
• Maren Greve: Can Successive Relearning Enhance performance on Application-Based Exam Questions
• Paul Hurley: Re-Assessing Participation in the Acting Classroom
• Grace Keenan:  Costume History:  New Strategies in Teaching
• Daniela Popescu:  Enhancing Active Learning of Anatomy and Physiology

Previous Award Recipients

• Tracy Dodson:  Understanding nursing student choice in completion of pre-simulation activities
• Richard Ferdig:  Collaborative Gaming as An Agent of Motivation to Increase Retention in Online Learning
• Richard Ferdig:  Gaming and anxiety in the nursing simulation lab: A pilot study of an escape room
• Richard Ferdig:  Understanding Nursing Student
• Richard Ferdig:  Teaching the Game, Volumes 1 and 2
• Enrico Gandolfi:  Collaborative Gaming as An Agent of Motivation to Increase Retention in Online Learning
• Enrico Gandolfi:  Teaching the Game, Volumes 1 and 2
• Jill Kawalec:  Effect of the Jigsaw Method in Enhancing Learning of Biostatistics in a Medical School Curriculum
• Jessica Leveto:  Career Pathways in Sociology, Criminology and Justice Studies
• Barbara George:  Applying Linguistic Diversity - Multilingual Students
• Mary Parr:  Critical Pedagogy and the "Diversity Course:" Preparing for Change
• Janet Reed:  Gaming and anxiety in the nursing simulation lab: A pilot study of an escape room
• Rekha Sharma:  Building Stronger Classroom Communities by Encouraging Cultural Humility
• Ana Wetzl: Addressing Erasure - Networking Language Justice Advocacy for Multilingual Students in the Rustbelt  
• Haithem Zourrig:  Smartphone-Based Virtual Reality as an Immersive Tool for Teaching Marketing Concepts