ILTE News and Features
Faculty Innovator: Sumreen Asim
January 21, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Beliefs. They frame our identity and shape our horizon. They can limit, imprison, defeat us. Or they can give form to our dreams and motivate us to pursue them. A pre-occupation with beliefs figures strongly in the life and work of Sumreen Asim, assistant professor of elementary science and technology ...
Faculty Innovator: Kent Edmonds
December 6, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—It’s urinalysis day in the Physiology 215 Lab, taught by Professor of Biology Dr. Kent Edmonds. Over the course of the two-hour lab, students consume specified amounts of water, saline and bicarbonate solutions, and then, every half hour, collect their own personal urine specimen in the nearby restroom. They subject ...
Faculty Innovators: Alan Zollman, Bradford Griggs, David Sullivan-Losey
November 5, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–If teaching and learning were jazz, it would look and feel a lot like the classroom of Alan Zollman, Bradford Griggs and David Sullivan-Losey. The three colleagues in the School of Education teach general methods, a class that is accepted grimly as part of the teacher prep territory—like earthquakes and ...
Faculty Innovator: Omar Attum
October 8, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Dune 45 in Swakopumund, Namibia is a towering lump of sand. The small group of IU Southeast students and instructors have been hiking for nearly an hour in near darkness to scale the summit before dawn, and experience the magic of a desert sunrise. It comes on slowly but irrevocably, ...
Dr. Suparna Mukhopadhyay is 2019 Faculty Innovator of the Year
April 29, 2019
Dr. Suparna Mukhopadhyay, lecturer in biology, has been recognized as 2019 Faculty Innovator of the Year by the Institute of Learning and Teaching Excellence (ILTE). “Dr. M,” as she is known to her students, was chosen from among a field of eight colleagues from across the disciplines, each of whom was the subject of an ...
Faculty Innovator: Charlotte Tresa Reynolds
April 5, 2019
By Steven Krolak Who am I? The question lurks inchoate in every classroom on campus. That is the nature of college, a place where so many people take their first big steps toward what they have chosen to be, or change direction to pursue a different path from the one they may have once plotted ...
Faculty Innovator: David Treves
March 5, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—A life-size bronze statue of a woolly mammoth stands in front of the Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Inside the Museum, in a room colloquially known as Elephant Hall, mammoth and mastodon skeletons tower over visitors, giving a sense of the size and strength of the large mammals that ...
18 and counting: IU Southeast builds momentum in Quality Matters-certified online courses
February 27, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Last week Dr. Robin Morgan, professor of psychology, earned official Quality Matters certification for her online course, Behavioral Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence (PSY-P 425). That means IU Southeast now boasts 18 QM-certified online courses. QM is the gold standard of quality assurance for online education. During the certification process, ...
