Qualitative Research
September 2015
Ed.D. Dissertation
Literacy Through Photography: Third-Year and Beyond, First-Generation College Student Experience with Culture and Academic Discourse
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Featured a comprehensive view of first-generation, millennial struggles through candid accounts facilitated by interpretive, narrative, and qualitative action-based research. The framework of the study was informed by education, literacy and psychology [Online HTML]
December 2012
Ethnographic Photo Study
Sudden Disability in a World of Creativity
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Featured the lived experience through a qualitative journey of a non-traditional college student who suffered neurological symptoms from Lyme Disease. View
Conference Presentation and Publication
May 2020
Conference Presentation - The Download /xAPI Party
xAPI: LRS to LMS for Beginners
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Utilize xAPI tracking and reports in an LMS
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Explore the path (cycle) from Learning Media to SCORM Cloud (LRS) to Moodle (LMS) View
April 2018
Conference Paper and Presentation – Partners for Connections in Education Conference
Your Students as Agents of Change: Experiential, Project-based, Interdisciplinary, and Inquiry-driven Curriculum Serving Clients from the Local Community
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How to empower students with a bottom-up approach to community building through education
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Communicating with and guiding students and colleagues, managing non-profits and leading and motivating external volunteers for positive, action-packed, community-based learning experiences
April 2017
Presentation Kings College - Identity at a Crossroads: Third-Wave Feminism and Intersectionality Conference
I've Talked with Women: A Qualitative Journey, Growth, Understanding and Pain Points in Establishment of Volunteer Programs Serving Disadvantaged Individuals
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Case study
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Service learning project that led to a community organization
March 2016
Conference Presentation - Eastern Communication Association
(selected by blind peer review)
Our [R]evolutionary Role in the Academic Curriculum: A Two-Part Roundtable Discussion on Bridging Academic Cultures While Teaching Communication in Other Disciplines
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Presentation on interdisciplinary teaching in higher education
April 2012
Women and Gender Studies Conference Presentation, Wilkes University
Problem Based Learning and Information Communication Technology: a Millennial Transition to Higher Education
Research-based Service
2014-Present
NIH Certification for research ethics
August May 2015-May 2017
Wilkes University IRB Committee Member
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Reviewed continuous body of institutional research to advocate for all human subjects