Dr. Boettcher is an expert consultant for ACUE’s “Online Teaching Essentials” course. She is also a contributor to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice:

• “3 Ways to Enhance Your Online Instruction”

Boettcher is a consultant at Designing for Learning and the author of many seminal books, features, and columns in higher education magazines and journals. Most notably, she coauthored The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips (2010, 2016) and Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web (1999, 2004). Boettcher is also the editor and coeditor of books on planning, design, and implementation issues of higher education technology and distance and online learning. She was on the editorial team for two editions of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Distance Learning (2005/2009, Idea Group). Additionally, she edited the book 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education: The Joe Wyatt Challenge (1993).

Boettcher was the Executive Director of CREN from 1997 to 2003. CREN is a nonprofit higher education member organization that founded Bitnet in 1981 and provided IT knowledge services and certificate authority services supporting research and educational institutions. The CREN TechTalks series, launched in 1997, was the first audio webcast served over the web. Boettcher served as the Program Director and Cohost of this audio webcast series with Howard Strauss of Princeton. Before joining CREN, Boettcher was a faculty member in Educational Research in the College of Education and the Director of the Office of Interactive Distance Learning at Florida State University.

Boettcher holds a PhD in Education and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in English from Marquette University. She also earned her BA in English, Spanish, and Secondary Education from Marquette University.

Dr. Stevens’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• The Most Important Audience in Writing a Teaching Philosophy: You

Stevens is a full professor at Portland State University. Her interest in rubrics and assessment comes from her desire to help faculty save time in grading and engage students in learning. She co-authored Introduction To Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback and Promote Student Learning, that is in its second edition. She has also co-authored two other books, Tenure in the Sacred Grove and Journal Keeping as well as numerous articles on teaching and learning in higher education.

At Portland State University, Stevens was the Faculty-in-Residence for Assessment. Currently, she is the Faculty-in-Residence for Academic Writing and is working on her next sole-authored book, Write More! Publish More! Stress Less! Her research revolves around ways to assist faculty to manage and succeed in their complex roles as teachers and researchers. She regularly consults nationally and internationally with university faculty on ways to effectively assess student learning through rubrics and to improve programs.

Stevens received her PhD in Educational Psychology from Michigan State University.

Dr. Nilson’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• Linda Nilson Talks Teaching and Learning With ACUE
• Linda Nilson: Leading the First Day of Class
• Change Magazine: “ACUE Makes the Link”

Her recent publications include:

• Creating Engaging Discussions: Strategies for “Avoiding Crickets” in Any Size Classroom and Online (Stylus 2018)
• Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research (Jossey-Bass 2017)

Nilson is Founding Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University. She has held leadership positions in the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network, Toastmasters International, Mensa, and the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium.

In her career as a full-time faculty development director, she authored publications including Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course, Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness and Learning Skills, and Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time. Nilson co-edited Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom and Volumes 25 through 28 of To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development. To Improve the Academy is the major publication of the POD Network in Higher Education.

In addition, Nilson has published many articles and book chapters and has given well over 400 keynotes, webinars, and live workshops at conferences, colleges, and universities both nationally and internationally. She has spoken on dozens of topics related to course design, best teaching practices, assessment, scholarly productivity, and academic career matters. Most popular among her current presentation topics are critical thinking, self-regulated learning, specifications grading, and the effectiveness of various instructional technologies. In her recent articles, she documents the instability of faculty development careers, raises serious questions about the validity of student ratings, and describes instructor-friendly ways to measure learning at the course level.

Before coming to Clemson University, Nilson directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside and taught graduate courses on college teaching. She entered the area of educational development while she was on the sociology faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. After distinguishing herself as an excellent instructor, her department selected her to establish and supervise its Teaching Assistant Training Program. In sociology, her research focused on occupations and work, social stratification, political sociology, and disaster behavior.

Nilson was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she earned her MS and PhD in Sociology. She completed her undergraduate work in three years at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Howard’s recent publications include:

• Discussion in the College Classroom: Getting Your Students Engaged and Participating in Person and Online (Wiley 2015)
• First Contact: Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology (Rowman & Littlefield 2011)

Howard is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University in Indianapolis where he teaches classes on Sociology. He is a Fellow of the P.A. Mack Center at Indiana University for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning.

Previously, Dr. Howard served as Interim Vice Chancellor and Dean, Assistant Dean for Budget and Planning, Head of the Division of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. He also served as Deputy Editor of the American Sociological Association Journal: Teaching Sociology. He served as the 2006-07 President of the North Central Sociological Association and as an elected member of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation Board of Trustees.

Howard earned his BA in Sociology from Indiana University South Bend. He holds an MA and PhD in Sociology from University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Frey is the Instructional Design Manager for Pitt Online where she provides support to instructional designers and faculty on a variety of teaching and learning topics. As a mentor and project manager, she has collaborated with faculty, instructional technologists, graphic designers, librarians, and videographers to develop dozens of online and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Frey has over 25 years of teaching experience from K-12 to higher education classrooms. She is co-author of the book, Distinctive Distance Education Design: Models for Differentiated Instruction (IGI Global, 2011). In addition, she is a Facilitator and Master Reviewer for the non-profit organization Quality Matters™. Her research interests include classroom civility, online learning, instructional design and technology, and human resource development.

Frey holds an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and a DEd from Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Bruff’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• Connecting the Dots: Visual Learning in an Election Year
• Video: Derek Bruff Talks Visual Learning Tools

Bruff is director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. As director, he oversees the Center’s programming and offerings for faculty and graduate students, helping them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching and learning.

Seeking to foster a university culture that supports effective teaching, Bruff consults regularly with campus leaders about pedagogical issues. His research interests include educational technology, visual thinking, and social pedagogies. He blogs on these topics and his book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2009.

Bruff holds a PhD in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. He previously taught at Harvard University.

Dr. Bowen’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• José Bowen: Using Feedback From Students to Improve Your Teaching
• Change Magazine: “ACUE Makes the Link”

His recent publications include:

• Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes (Jossey-Bass 2017)

Bowen is the 11th President of Goucher College. He began his teaching career at Stanford University in 1982 as the Director of Jazz Ensembles. In 1994, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at the University of Southampton, England. Bowen returned to America in 1999 as the first holder of the endowed Caestecker Chair of Music at Georgetown University where he created and directed the Program (now Department) in Performing Arts. He was Dean of Fine Arts at Miami University, before moving to SMU in Dallas in 2006 to become Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair for eight years ending with a number one ranking for the School of Music in USA Today in 2014.

Bowen has written over 100 scholarly articles for the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of the Society for American Music, The Journal of Musicological Research, Performance Practice Review, 19th-century Music, Notes, Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Royal Musical Associations, Studi Musicali, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and in books from Oxford and Princeton University Presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He contributed to Discover Jazz (Pearson, 2011) and is an editor (along with David Baker, Dan Morgenstern, John Hasse, and Alyn Shipton) of the six-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates.

Bowen has also been a pioneer in active learning and the use of technology in the classroom, including podcasts and online games, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR for his book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2012; winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education 2013 from the American Association of Colleges and Universities). He is currently working on Transforming the University: Learning for Change (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass), a comprehensive approach to integrating campus life with massively better classrooms and using the latest research on learning and adolescent development to focus college on opening minds in the post-technology era. Bowen has been honored by students and colleagues for his teaching at SMU, Miami, and Georgetown and he received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990. He is currently serving on the Digital Working Group of the Association of American Colleges & Universities General Education Maps and Markers program.

In over 35 years as a jazz performer, he has appeared in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions, conducting and playing are featured on numerous recordings and he currently performs with the jazz collective, Jampact. His latest CD, Uncrowded Night, features his playing with the José Bowen Quartet. He has written a Pulitzer Prize-nominated symphony, a film score, and music for Hubert Laws, Jerry Garcia, and many others. His Jewish music is also widely performed and includes a Jazz Shabbat Service. Other awards for his compositions include the Hubbell, Popular, and Standard Awards, the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Bell T. Richie Prize, and the Koret Israel Prize.

He has served on the Editorial Boards for Jazz Research Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Per Musi: Revista Acadêmica de Música. He is also on the Advisory Board for The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and is a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress. In 1996, Bowen was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England.

Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University: a BS in Chemistry, an MA in Music Composition, an MA in Humanities, and a joint PhD in Musicology and Humanities. In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar.

Dr. Barkley’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

• The Importance of Checking for Student Understanding

Her recent publications include:

• Interactive Lecturing: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass 2018)
• Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass 2016)

Barkley is a Professor of Music at Foothill College, Los Altos, California and Executive Director of the K. Patricia Cross Academy, a non-profit online platform that provides college faculty with access to free instructional modules that focus on improving college-level teaching and learning. In addition to her work with student engagement, Dr. Barkley is a classically trained pianist and studies American music from a multicultural perspective.

An author, scholar, musician, and educator, she has spent her career researching and writing about classroom teaching practices that transform both face-to-face and online classes so that instructors can meet the needs of diverse learners (https://www.collegeteachingtechniques.net). She is also a popular keynote speaker and workshop presenter (https://faculty2faculty.com).

Barkley earned her BA and MA from the University of California, Riverside. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked closely with Berkeley’s Center for the Study of American Cultures in pioneering the study of American music from a multicultural perspective. For her work in this area, Dr. Barkley has received numerous awards, including being selected as a Carnegie Scholar in the discipline of Music and the California Professor of the Year.