Educational Technology
Educational Technology has been a surging through the education system for a little over two decades now with most of the emphasis placed in providing new and exciting ways to bring technology into the classroom both at the K-12 and higher educational levels.
Education
My education consists of a Master's degree in Educational Technology with a focus on Web and Instructional Design, a Teaching Certification, several Technical and Leadership Certifications, and a Certificate of Advance Graduate Studies. I am currently pursuing a Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Education with a double concentration in Higher Education Research & Institutional Planning and also Distance Education. Please review my resume for a full listing of my education and certifications.
Experience
The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) provided guidelines I use when using and implementing educational technology with my instructional design projects. View current AECT guidelines and examples of how each of these guidelines were met.
Research
Virtual Environments in Higher Education: An examination
and analysis of the use of virtual environments for learner engagement
and skill building in online distance education programs.
Web 2.0 and other Emerging Technologies in Education: An
examination and analysis of the use of emerging technologies for learner
engagement and skill building in online distance education programs.
Accessibility in Higher Education: Examination of higher
education policies and practices when developing university websites
and online programs for access by individuals with physical disabilities.
ePortfolios in an Online Doctorate Program: An examination
of the use of an ePortfolio component in an online distance education
program in counselor supervision. Using an ePortfolio system built upon
an Apache web server running in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) mode, students
are able access and edit their ePortfolios from anywhere in the world
and faculty are able to provide advice.
Effective Communication and Practices by Chesapeake Virginia’s
Adult Education Continuing Education (AECE) Department: Collection
and analysis of internal, personal, and Web communication, training,
and marketing practices for recommendation of improvements.
Social Learning Theory and Literacy Development in Children
from Economically Disadvantaged Families: Examination of literacy
programs to increase children’s skill development.
Human
Motivation and Learning: Analysis
of Piaget, Freud, and Erikson’s theories in relation to human motivation
to learn.
Adding ePortfolios to a Distance Education Program - This research
specifically addressed adding an ePortfolio component to a doctorate program
offered online.
Intergrating
Video in Electronic Portfolios - The terminal objective for this
research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional module
in teaching users to create and added video to their electronic portfolios.
Electronic Portfolios: Improving the Assessment of
Learning -
The objective of this research was to investigate and discuss the value
of ePortfolios in preparation for designing an instructional module.
The result of the research was an explanation of the need and advantages
for using electronic portfolios in the classroom to increase student
involvement in the learning process and providing a method of documenting
the students' learning process throughout the school year.