TARGET Recipients
We have had a very impressive response for our first three rounds of the Teaching Advancement and Research Grants in Educational Technology (TARGET) awards. Over the past two years, we have received more than 40 strong proposals from across the University, and the TARGET Review Committee has selected eleven projects for funding. The Library and the Center for Educational Technology and Curricular Innovation would like to recognize and thank President Lesley Hallick and Provost John Miller for their support and vision for TARGET, which has enabled the program to get off to such a great beginning.
The TARGET program was initiated in the Fall of 2012 to encourage faculty to pursue the thoughtful integration of technology into teaching and learning and to explore course delivery in online and blended formats. Our next round of TARGET will be in the Fall of 2015 and we will be sending out more information later this year. Please contact Alfred Weiss (alweiss@pacificu.edu, 503-352-1417) if you would like to discuss a future project or if you have any questions about the program.
Target Recipients for Spring 2016
Paige Baugher | Biology
Baugher will be combing team based learning with a flipped methodology to create engaging and active class-sessions in cellular biology. This project will provide an excellent model for using an online curriculum to enrich a face-to-face course.
Rebecca Concepcion and Brian Jackson | Exercise Science
Concepcion and Jackson will develop online resources to develop an online curriculum to enhance their traditionally delivered foundations of exercises class. The online resources will bring active learning to a large enrollment class and help keep students engaged in sports and other extracurricular activities current with their coursework despite scheduling challenges.
Tracy Doll and Amiee Ho | Optometry
Doll and Ho will create open educational resources for scleral indentation and common ocular pathologies that can then be used to support numerous classes in the College of Optometry. These resources would also be made freely available and would aid other optometric programs as well as clinicians.
June Dressler, Career Development Center, and Jaye Cee Whitehead | Sociology
Dressler and Whitehead will integrate an innovative e-portfolio based activities into a career decision class for anthropology and sociology majors. This course will provide students with tangible career resources and digital literacy skills to help them translate their Pacific experience into professional success.
Nancy Ann Neudauer | Math
Neudauer will create multifunctional online resources that she will develop an online curriculum for her advanced Math classes to facilitate inquiry-based activities both in and outside the classroom. These materials would also be the basis for University courses delivered in West Africa.
Sigrid Roberts, Brendan Stamper, John Harrelson, Ashim Malhotra, Sarah Jane Faro, & Marina Suzuki | Pharmacy
Roberts, Stamper, Harrelson, Malhorta, Faro, and Suzuki will develop, implement, and evaluate the application of personalized online pharmacogenomics testing to enhance student learning in a pharmacogenomics course.
Anita Zijdemans Boudreau | School of Learning and Teaching
Zijdemans Boudreau will create online open educational resources that will be the foundation for EDU606 and 648. Because this course is offered over multiple campuses and sections, these resources will help integrate the curriculum of these courses and provide a means for faculty and students to “engage meaningful learning and teaching across physical place, time, and virtual space.”
Target Recipients for Spring 2015
Katie Dolphin | Department of Exercise Science
Dolphin will use her TARGET grant to increase the amount student interaction and to facilitate activity-based learning in the face-to-face sessions of her nutrition course—a required course for all Exercise Science majors—by using a flipped classroom model. To free up the class time for these activities, Dolphin will move material she has formerly presented during in-class lectures to an online format.
Jennifer Hardacker | Department of Media Arts
Hardacker will use teaching strategies and methods derived from video and online game environments—gamification—to increase student engagement and learning in her film history and analysis course. In her gamified class, students will have multiple pathways to achieve course objectives and Hardacker will smartly apply technology to facilitate both learning activities and assessment.
Lynda Irons | Libraries and Robbie Pock | College of Arts and Sciences
Lynda Irons and Robbie Pock will create an e-book on library and information literacy for new undergraduate students that can be used across courses and disciplines. After the grant is completed, this e-book will be freely available to both the Pacific Community and the world at large.
Moria McSharry McGrath and Tiffany Fieken | Department of Public Health
Students majoring in Public Health often work directly with health professionals in non-academic environments while they are conducting their senior-year practicum and capstone projects. Because these sites are remote from Forest Grove, McGrath and Fieken will use their TARGET grant to design an online environment that will help guide and contextualize the students’ off campus work while facilitating the students’ interaction with their peers and faculty mentors back at Pacific.
Sandra Rogers | School of Occupational Therapy, Nancy Cicirello | School of Physical Therapy & Chris Macfarlane, School of Learning and Teaching
Rogers, Cicirello, and Macfarlane are developing two blended courses—courses where instruction is conducted both online and on site—for professional therapists in China. These courses will provide Chinese practitioners with training in the most current therapy skills and methods and will serve as a pilot for further international efforts in occupational and physical therapy.
Shun-nan Yang, John Hayes, and James Kundart | College of Optometry
In a variation of the flipped classroom model, Yang, Hayes, and Kundart will combine well-structured and engaging in-class activities with a compelling online curriculum. They propose that this model will help develop the critical thinking skills of Optometry students while increasing student engagement.
Target Recipients for Spring 2014
Mary Von | School of Physician Assistant Studies, Shahana Koslowsky | School of Professional Psychology, CHP
Von and Koslowsky proposed creating collaborative case-based and interactive online activities for the Interprofessional Competence Course. These activities will have multiple outcomes and pathways—allowing students to explore different aspects of an interprofessional problem while being introduced to a particular concept. These activities will take the place of one hour of in-class lecture. Following their completion, students will engage in small group discussion with faculty for the second hour of class.
Len Koh | Optometry
Koh proposed developing a blended curriculum for his series of optometric pharmacology courses. In these courses, Koh will move lecture content online as a series of short videos. Koh will then use face-to-face class time for problem-based lessons and other active learning activities. Hua is basing the development of this course on experimentation he has conducted in previous courses where he has successfully applied blended and flipped classroom models.
Mike Geraci | Department of Media Arts
Geraci proposed creating a flipped classroom for his CS 205 class—a computer coding class for non-programmers in Media Arts. Geraci proposed to make a series of online video resources available to his students, including screencasts of his own lectures, existing educational material, and commercial video, which would take the place of in-class lectures. Class time will then be spent on actual coding exercises tailored to his students individual abilities and interests.
Catherine Kim | School of Learning and Teaching
Kim proposed adding an extensive collection of videos to her online ESOL courses. Following the innovation of “flipped classrooms” for traditional courses, these videos will be used in place of synchronous lectures—freeing up that time for synchronous active learning exercises. In addition, Kim also proposed to increase the multimedia content of this course to create a more engaging online environment.
Target Recipients for Spring 2013
Brian Jackson | Department of Exercise Science
Jackson proposes using a flipped classroom model to teach an exercise science class. He will translate his lecture material into short online videos and other internet-based activities and use the face-to-face class time he previously devoted to lecturing for active learning exercises.
Terry O’Day and Stephanie Stokamer | Department of Art and the Center for Civic Engagement
This project will create a vigorous online component for a permaculture design course. The course will be redesigned around a flipped classroom model, in which lecture-type instruction will be conducted online and face-to-face time will be used for interactive activities. In addition to watching videos, students will also do extensive academic work online, including creating electronic portfolios that will frame the Civic Engagement portions of the course.
John Suroviak | Department of Business Administration
Suroviak will redesign his face-to-face introductory accounting class into a blended format. By moving basic bookkeeping instruction online, Suroviak can use class time to focus on creative and critical problem-solving skills which are necessary for practicing accountants but which are not developed in traditional accounting classes.
Brendan Stamper | School of Pharmacy
Stamper proposes creating an online curriculum that will provide students with either a review of or instruction in the fundamental science and math skills necessary for success in the Pharmacy program. This program would underlie the entire first-year curriculum and would help ensure that Pharmacy students had the prerequisite skills to excel in all areas of the program.
Rik Lemoncello and Amanda Stead | School of Communication Science and Disorders
Lemoncello and Stead propose creating a series of video tutorials and lectures that will serve as the basis for blended and flipped classes across the Communication Sciences and Disorders curriculum. In addition to providing course content, Lemoncello and Stead will make these videos freely available online so that they can be used both by alumni of Pacific’s program as well as by audiology speech-language pathology students and professionals world-wide.
Ann Matschiner | College of Education
Matschiner will develop a fully online program for the Talented and Gifted Program. Matschiner will use the grant to help her develop the core courses for the program.
Anita Zijdemans Boudreau and Nancy Krusen | College of Education and School of Occupational Therapy
Therapy Zijdemans Boudreau and Krusen will create an interdisciplinary, fully online course on teaching in higher education for those who wish to pursue an academic career in the health professions.