Staff Directory
Director
Michael R. Meyer
Center Director
Specialties
- Directs and coordinates center activities with those of other campus units
- Holds pedagogical consultations with faculty and staff from all departments
- Promotes new faculty development tools, training, and opportunities
- Coordinates initiatives to support teaching and learning, such as the university testing center
- Holds joint appointment as physics senior lecturer
Staff Listing
Jean Straw DeClerck
Instructional Design & Assessment Specialist
M.S. - Rhetoric & Technical Communications, Michigan Technological University
Specialties
- Designs and delivers workshops in instructional technologies, pedagogical practices and course design
- Provides advanced support for Canvas as well as other learning and collaboration tools
- Assists faculty and programs in assessment plans that enable evidence-based action for meeting learning goals
- Promotes collegial, knowledge-sharing initiatives to improve instructional practices across disciplines
Thomas Freeman
Senior Instructional Designer
MA - Education, The George Washington University
Specialties
- Specializes in the design, development and improvement of online learning courses
- Provides instructional design services for teaching and learning online
- Provides advanced support for the Canvas Learning Management System
- Assists with the development and improvement of online learning degree and certificate programs
Alex Guth
Instructional Support Specialist
PhD - Geology, Michigan Technological University
Specialties
- Works with faculty to help build blended and online course elements in Canvas
- Will be teaching an online course for the Geology Department this fall
Sylvia Matthews
Program Director, International GTA Assistance Program
Specialties
- Directs IGTAAP (International GTA Assistance Program)
- Works with international graduate students to promote communication, teaching, and cultural exchange
- Hires, educates and supervises undergraduate IGTAAP coaches
- Directs General Sciences and Arts Program and serves as the Undeclared Advisor on campus
- Teaches SA 1000--Sciences and Arts Explorations
A. Gay Schultz
Office Assistant 3
Specialties
- Provides clerical support
- Assists with the faculty evaluation system
- Schedules and administers the SPEAK Test
Nancy Seely
Associate Director
Specialties
- Oversees the faculty evaluation system
- Evaluates SPEAK Tests and mini lessons of international GTAs
- Manages the office budget
- Coordinates and conducts classroom visitations
- Manages the teaching awards process and organizes the annual banquet
Jeff Toorongian
Senior Educational Technologist
M.ET. - Boise State University
Specialties
- Specializes in development and production of video content for instructional contexts
- Identifies and leverages technologies in support of course-level and university-wide learning goals
- Develops message design solutions to promote learning outcomes
- Provides advanced support for the Canvas Learning Management System
- Provides instructional design services and promotes pedagogies to support online and blended teaching practices
- Supervises eLearning student academic support team
