Adding Interactivity to Your Courses

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This Spring, we are offering a professional development course for faculty entitled Adding Interactivity to Your Courses. Consider applying if you’re interested in:

  • creating more purposeful interactions in your courses (in-person, online or hybrid)
  • redesigning your current activities/assignments
  • viewing successful sample interactive activities

This 10-12 hour course is asynchronous and self-paced with one in-person kick-off session in February.

In order to receive a $500 stipend, all course work must be completed within Spring 2026.

More details coming soon! Please check back for more on how to apply!

Name Role
 Jennifer Redd  Program Coordinator
 Sara Bakalian  Program Designer & Facilitator
 Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts  Faculty Mentor

List of Adding Interactivity to your Courses Program certificate awardees according to semesters:

Spring 2022
Name Department College
Julian Vogel Accounting and Finance College of Business
Ferdinand Rivera Math and Statistics College of Sciences
Kezban Yagci Sokat Marketing and Business Analytics College of Business
Tara Duffy Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Mary Hall Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging College of Health and Human Sciences
Jane Dodge University Library University Library
Yinghua Huang Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management College of Business
Elisa Mattarelli School of Management College of Business
Jessica Fraser Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Janet Tan School of Innovation and Leadership College of Business
Amy Ip Meteorology and Climate Science College of Sciences
Karthika Sasikumar Political Science College of Social Science
H. Gilchrist Film and Theater College of Humanities and the Arts
Brian Chavez Bolanos World Languages and Literature College of Humanities and the Arts
Cornelia Finkbeiner The Valley Foundation School of Nursing College of Health and Human Science
Eva Campo Sahagun Chemistry College of Sciences
Vishnu Pendyala Applied Data Science College of Professional and Global Education
Katey DeSanti Public Health and Recreation  College of Health and Human Science
David Wagner Chemical and Materials Engineering College of Engineering
Aaron Romanowsky Physics and Astronomy College of Sciences
Spring 2023
Name Department College
Jie Gao Hospitality College of Business
Dina Izenstark Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Krissy Connell-Hassett Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Zachary McNiece Counselor Education College of Education
Soumya De Computer Engineering College of Engineering
Albert Wong Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering
Marcelle Dougan Public Health and Recreation College of Health and Human Science
Laura Senn Nursing College of Health and Human Science
Riana Betzler Philosophy College of Humanities and the Arts
Noah Friedman-Biglin Philosophy College of Humanities and the Arts
Erik Johnson Humanities College of Humanities and the Arts
Marianne Kabir Humanities College of Humanities and the Arts
Rosemary Hardin Biological Sciences College of Sciences
Jae Chung Biological Sciences College of Sciences
Andrew Totah-McCarty Physics and Astronomy College of Sciences
Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts Environmental Studies College of Social Sciences
Christine Ma-Kellams Psychology College of Social Sciences
Jody Ulate Communication Studies College of Social Sciences
Spring 2024
Name Department College
Singmay Chou School of Management College of Business
Yu Chen School of Information Systems College of Business
Nathan Lupton School of Global Innovation College of Business
Danielle Mead Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Joy Foster Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Kim Tsai Child and Adolescent Development College of Education
Erin Nokes Communication Sciences College of Education
Sravani Vadlamani Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering
Christopher Lew Chemical and Materials Engineering College of Engineering
Wendy Hales Mora Avation and Technology College of Engineering
Jennifer Bean Interdisciplinary Engineering College of Engineering
Tridha Chatterjee Computer Engineering College of Engineering
Courtney Boitano Occupational Therapy College of Health and Human Science
Anji Buckner Public Health and Recreation College of Health and Human Science
Gabriela Swamy Nutrition, Food Science and Packaging College of Health and Human Science
Jordan Liz Philosophy College of Humanities and the Arts
Janet Kitajima Linguistics and Language Development College of Humanities and the Arts
Vanessa Fernandez World Languages and Literature College of Humanities and the Arts
Alayna Mills English College of Humanities and the Arts
Vakini Santhanakrishnan Physics and Astronomy College of Sciences
Fredrick Larabee Biological Sciences  College of Sciences
Hamed Mouseghy Biological Sciences College of Sciences
Christine Vega Chicana/o Studies College of Social Sciences
Jennifer Diehl Teacher Education College of Education

Testimonials

“The Spring 2024 Adding interactivity to Your Courses was incredibly beneficial to increase variability into my course assignments. Feedback from students reflected how much they valued the use of video announcements, the integration of Adobe Express modalities into assignments, as well as learning about the Hypothesis tool for article annotation. These small changes in assignments and content delivery resulted in large increases in student engagement."

Courtney Boitano, Occupational Therapy Department

 

"The asynchronous Adding Interactivity to Your Course program was fantastic. Led by Sara Bakalian and Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts, the well-designed curriculum covered a wide range of topics, from the benefits of adding interactivity to how to use a variety of different interactivity tools. The Overview, Resources, and sample Activities provided an excellent foundation for building multiple interactive lessons, reviewed by Sara or Rachel to use in our own courses.  I highly suggest participating in any program Ecampus provides - participation has long-term and lasting benefits for not only yourself as an instructor but, more importantly, your students!"

Wendy Hales Mora, Aviation and Technology Department