Professional Organization: ISSOTL
Alice Macpherson
Instructional Skills Workshop as a Transformative Learning Experience, Transformative Dialogues (ejournal), Communities of Practice Implementation Practices
Educational Development, Teaching and Learning, Cooperative Learning, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Alice Macpherson holds an PhD in Education combining Education and Leadership through an organizational development lens. She has worked with many facets of post-secondary and adult education in curriculum development and the development and delivery of professional development educational opportunities. Alice is the Professional Development and Prior Learning Assessment Coordinator at Kwantlen, where she works with employees at all levels to increase their strengths and harness their creativity to work with students and improve learning. Alice has worked with many facets of post-secondary and adult education in curriculum development, instructional design, and the development and delivery of professional development educational opportunities. She is a senior trainer in the International Instructional Skills Workshop Network (http://www.iswnetwork.ca/) and works with other trainers and facilitators from around the world to support the development of evidence based good teaching practices to promote positive learning environments.
Anthony Ciccone
Exploring the impact of the scholarship of teaching and learning on institutional priorities, Student reflection and its relationship to student learning
Anthony Ciccone (Tony) is past Director of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He directs the Center for Instructional and Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Nancy Chick
literary studies, signature pedagogies, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), disciplinary learning, feminist pedagogy
Nancy Chick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Barron County and a member of the ISSOTL Board of Directors.
Taimi Olsen
Faculty development on teaching and learning and assessment, Greek Religion (participating in ACA-Mellon three-year grant for faculty development), research on E. E. Cummings and on George Herriman (20th century cartoonist), use of Sakai project pages for course review, assessment, and departmental business.
Dr. Taimi Olsen is a Professor of English at Tusculum College. She obtained her doctorate from UNC-CH and is the author of Transcending Space: Architectural Places in the Works of Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings, and John Barth. She is also author of several articles on E. E. Cummings, has done presentations on African American cartoonist George Herriman, and regularly conducts faculty development workshops on teaching and learning at the annual Appalachian College Association Summit.
