2011-2012 Presidential Teaching Scholar Award

Tricia Mulligan, PhD
Chair, Department of Political Science
Program Coordinator, International Studies and Pre-Law
Associate Professor of Political Science & International Studies

Internationalizing the Curriculum

This project has three goals. First, this project seeks to create a model for faculty who are interested in internationalizing the curriculum in their respective classrooms, traditional and otherwise. It will explore best practices at other colleges and universities to translate aspirations of internationalizing curriculum into concrete curricular and co-curricular practices, a blueprint of sorts.

The second goal of the project is to enrich the content and pedagogical tools of the Political Science and International Studies curriculum. While this proposal is geared toward developing pedagogical techniques that could benefit the larger community, the PS/IS department is a good testing ground for the opportunities and challenges of internationalizing the curriculum.

The third goal of the project is to engage students with a wide array of learning styles and expose them to a range of web-based information and technology via Blackboard, Wimba, webinars, videoconferencing, and other linkages.  More specifically, the use of this technology in new and existing courses, such as International Relations, will create a platform to provide student with an opportunity to participate in active learning with students in other countries, to experience first-hand the issues, challenges and processes involved in national and international politics.  For example, students would be able to enter into on-line or videoconferenced discussions of democratic change in Middle East and northern Africa with students in Jordan or discuss the role of the International Criminal Court with students in South Africa.

This project has the potential to assist and engage instructors in a variety of disciplines. International concerns are found in economics, the hard sciences, sociology, psychology, philosophy, peace and justice, education, computer science, mathematics, literature, history, and religious studies. If this project can increase interest, knowledge, efficacy, and attentiveness to global education, it may be successful in other fields as well. Moreover, if the multiple technologies course design succeeds in utilizing active learning and an increase in knowledge and interest, those findings would be instructive to other courses and disciplines.  This is a first step in internationalizing the curriculum, but an important one.

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2011 CELTIC Excellence in Teaching Awards (CETA)

Interdisciplinary Research Learning Environment: Biology and Computer Science

Chia-Ling Tsai, PhD
Department of Computer Science

Eric Muller, PhD
Department of Biology

 

The Great Work: Video Resources for Ecological Dialogue across the Curriculum

Kathleen Deignan, CND, PhD
Department of Religious Studies

 

Gateway to learning anytime, anywhere: Using iTunesU to enhance and improve learning

Nicholas Beutell, PhD
Department of Management and Business Administration

 

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2011 Faculty Instructional Technology Awards (FITA)

Incorporating Blackboard and WIMBA to Present Realistic e-Health Scenarios to Iona Speech Language Pathology/Audiology Students

The e-health mandate of 2012 has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to secure medical records, assure patient privacy, and to decrease medical mistakes.

Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi, PhD
Department of Speech Communication Studies

 

Fostering Visual/Technological Literacy via Free Internet-Based Technologies

(Applications and Indications for Teaching Where Visuals Can Enhance Instruction/Learning)

Stanley Lapa, MFA
Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Prior Years' Recipients