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I Can Do That! Learning to Make Your Online Courses More Engaging

Therese Atjum-Roberts
Dr. Therese Ajtum-Roberts is the Director of the Office for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at Becker College.  Dr. Ajtum-Roberts is passionate about training and supporting educators in K–12 and college classrooms, with specialties in areas of: online teaching, curriculum development, differentiated instruction, educational technology, learning theory, and culturally responsive teaching strategies for teaching diverse learners. She has an extensive background in teaching, which includes online, hybrid, blended, and traditional classroom learning environments. Dr. Ajtum-Roberts integrates project-based learning activities into her course design, which requires student use of educational, multimodal technology tools such as blogs, wikis, voice threads, online presentation tools, Google Docs, social media tools, and online web authoring tools such as WordPress.


Paul Brydges
Paul Brydges is the Instructional Technology Specialist with the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Becker College. In this role, he administrates Canvas for Becker and supports faculty in areas such as professional development, improving accessibility in online course content, and implementing instructional technology. Paul has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He entered the field of higher education technology in 2015. He currently lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with his wife and two cats and enjoys reading, gaming, and local restaurants.

Jennifer Wojick
Jennifer Wojcik has more than two decades of K12 classroom teaching experience and over fifteen years of teaching online, hybrid and face to face classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is an advocate of meeting the needs of all learners through the use of Universal Design for Learning and continually works to ensure that the diverse needs of all learners. Dr. Wojcik is a part-time lecturer in music education at Boston University and in digital media literacy at Northeastern University. She is an associate faculty member at Becker College, Post University and University of Bridgeport and teaches music to elementary school students in the City of Waterbury, CT.


Ana Maria Young
Ana Maria Young is the Assistant Director with the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Becker College. Her passion is learning, and her purpose is teaching. Ana Maria has expertise in teaching in a variety of learning environments including K - 12 public schools and at the college-level. She is particularly interested in student-centered and active learning activities that deepen understanding and increase engagement. Ana Maria has a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus and a Master of Arts in Diplomacy from Norwich University, and is currently pursuing her EdD from St. Thomas University in Educational Leadership & Innovation.

 

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