Dr. Wendy Howard is the director of the Pegasus Innovation Lab. Her diverse background is in both corporate training and higher education. She completed her undergraduate honors thesis on math and physics and was hired by Full Sail University to design a new degree program and published a textbook. After six years in that program, she transitioned to the corporate world as a technical trainer, and eventually supervisor. She continued on to teach at Rollins College as an adjunct professor in both the IT and Communications departments and developed online courses for the School of Technology and Design at Rasmussen College. Returning to higher education at UCF in 2011, she joined the Instructional Design team at the Center for Distributed Learning and taught as an adjunct for the Nicholson School of Communication.
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- Transferring Field-Based Experiences into Multiple Sources of Online ContentFinding and/or gathering course content can be a great challenge for faculty and course designers. By taking advantage of the time to acquire media content while out in the field, this can provide a great opportunity to turn those resources into multiple types of online content for students.
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- Reach More Students with Targeted Office HoursDescription One of the biggest challenges instructors face with large class sizes is connecting with students individually. Often students will make use of…
- Manage Student Interaction with Sign Up SheetsDescription In a distance learning environment, Moore (1989) suggests there are 3 different interaction types: student to student, student to instructor, and student…
- Keep Students Engaged/Successful with Intervention MessagesDescription Intervening with Students It is important to contact students when their observed behaviors within the course indicate cause for concern (e.g., disengaged…