2008–2009 Nominees and Winners
Nominations for the 2009–2010 Gertrude Cox Award will be accepted November 1, 2009 – December 4, 2009
Winner - Transformative Large Scale Projects
Dr. Jeff A. Joines
Textile Engineering Chemistry and Science
Dr. Stephen D. Roberts
Industrial & System Engineering
The Winners in the Transformative Large Scale Projects
category are Dr. Jeffrey A. Joines, an Associate Professor in
Engineering Chemistry and Science, and Dr. Stephen D Roberts, a
Professor of Industrial Engineering. They are honored for their course
TE/ISE 110 - Computer Based Modeling for Engineers, a course that not
only brings a new curricular approach to computational thinking, but is
also defining and demonstrating a revolutionary change in developing
pedagogy that can be employed across a variety of evolving curricula.
They start with computer-based modeling for engineers, and have created
a system that tracks and assesses student growth and learning in this
form of computational thinking throughout their entire time here at NC
State, from freshman through senior year. This impressive advancement
in longitudinal assessment has the potential to enhance teaching and
learning in every corner of our community, region and state.
Honorable Mention - Transformative Large Scale Projects
Dr. Hiller A. Spires
Curriculum, Instruction & Counselor Education
Honorable Mention in this category goes to Dr. Hiller A.
Spires, Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Curriculum, Instruction &
Counselor Education who is recognized for her work in New Literacies and
Design Studio: Teachers Experiencing the Power of Learning Through
Technology (ECI 546, Literacy, Technology, and Media). This work is
particularly consistent with the objectives of NC UNC Tomorrow, in
reaching out to middle school students throughout the state in a way
that will have multi-generational impact on future learners. The course
employs an impressive suite of pedagogical tools and technologies to
address contemporary topics, and introduces the concept of new
literacies, putting the need for creativity and imagination necessary
for success in the 21st century into an outreach environment to meet
today's educational challenges.
Gertrude Cox Award Winner - Innovative Technology Enhanced Courses
Dr. Gabriel Keith Harris
Food, Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences
The Winner of the award for Innovative Technology Enhanced Courses
goes to Dr. Gabriel Keith Harris, an Assistant Professor of Food,
Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences. Dr. Harris is honored for his
course FS 201: Food Science and the Consumer. This Food Science course
is a hybrid, using Moodle and other appropriate technologies to address
both an on-campus and a distance education cohort, giving opportunities
to students in both physical and virtual space to learn and review a
rich variety of course materials. The course deploys its technology
seamlessly and very effectively, not only in bringing guest experts to
both cohorts, but also in using that expertise to demystify high profile
concerns from fad diets to chili peppers and peanut butter. Dr. Harris
takes the science of nutrition and embeds it in the context of the
students' personal experience and current media events to make the
teaching of biology relevant and fascinating to his students.
Gertrude Cox Award Winner - New Instructional Tools & Methods
Laura Ladrie
Institute of Advanced Analytics
John Jernigan
Institute of Advanced Analytics
The winners in this category are Laura Ladrie, the Academic
Program Coordinator at our Institute for Advanced Analytics, and John
Jernigan, the Institute's IT Coordinator, for their project exploring
Google Tools in the Classroom. This experiment provides a valuable
model of selecting tools for courses and curricula that enable much
closer in and out of class collaboration among students and faculty and
outside reviewers, critics and assessors. The exigencies created by
growing ties to the off-campus community demands a suite of tools
commonly available to our community partners. This undertaking
demonstrates that tools like Google's suite can be used to construct an
academic-corporate environment. Ladrie and Jernigan assembled a set of
appropriate tools that are free, accessible to everyone, very flexible
and powerful, and will be as meaningful for our students after
graduation as they are within the academic program.
Gertrude Cox Award Nominees
Louise Antoinette Dolan
Foreign Languages And Literatures
Louise A. Dolan, also a Lecturer in Foreign Languages And
Literatures is nominated for her work with the Distance Education
version of FLS201-601 Intermediate Business Spanish Grammar I. Another
extensive utilization of Elluminate, this course makes excellent use of
online resources to extend language instruction not only to our resident
students in an especially "schedule-friendly" guise, but also to
previously marginalized student cohorts. This course helps fill a more
and more critical need in our university's curriculum, in teaching the
Spanish 210 requirement.
Dr. Ed Gehringer
Computer Science-Engineerig
Dr. Ed Gehringer, an Associate Professor in Computer
Science-Engineering was nominated for his continuing work with
Expertiza. This ground-breaking Web-based system for peer-reviewing
student work has been previously recognized in our Cox award
ceremonies. We are pleased that it continues to be recognized via peer
review publications in collaborative education. Particularly gratifying
is the increasing international adoption of the system showing that the
influence of Expertiza continues to expand.
Karen L. Tharrington
Foreign Languages And Literatures
Lee Ann F. Gillen
Distance Education & Learning Technology Applications
Karen L. Tharrington, Lecturer, in Foreign Languages And
Literatures, and Lee Ann F. Gillen, an Instructional Designer with
DELTA, are nominated for their Distance Education version of FLS 102
(Beginning Spanish II). A wonderful example of the good things that
happen when faculty and instructional designers work closely together,
this course is excellently organized, and demonstrates how tools such as
Elluminate can build bridges between the virtual and the actual,
particularly the realm of conversation and feedback; so vital to the
study of language. The course provides substantial technical assistance
to the distance ed students in recording their oral assignments and in
giving them assessments of their conversational skills.
Dr. Raymond Ting
Curriculum, Instruction & Counselor Education
Dr. Raymond Ting an Associate Professor of Curriculum,
Instruction & Counselor Education was nominated for his work on ECD 530:
Theories and Techniques of Counseling. The course is impressive for its
technological sophistication; it combines multimedia of Elluminate, and
video or audio recording for students submitting some of their
assignments via webcams, etc. But perhaps even more impressive is its
role in broadening NC State's international scope. Dr. Ting has also
developed a website and series of workshops based on this course called
Chinese Career Key. The increasingly popular program is designed to meet
the training needs for professionals offering career guidance and
services in Hong Kong, particularly those working in the schools.
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