Education

M.Sc.: Biology (Ecology) East Carolina University 1992.

B.Sc.: Business (Finance) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983. 

Professional Focus

1.  Distance Education- Development and Facilitation:  I have been involved in the development, review and delivery of online courses in a number of platforms.  Most recently, I have been working with a team from the University of North Carolina's LearnNC program, exploring best practices in online course delivery.  We now believe that the pedagogical models developed for online courses can have tremendous benefit in face-to-face courses, with the potential for revolutionizing the way we create and facilitate the learning experience in any venue.

 2. Environmental Sustainability:  Virtually all solutions to environmental problems are already developed and sequestered in academia.  Unfortunately, this information rarely makes it intact to the general public or policy makers, resulting in misguided efforts for attaining sustainability.  The solution to this problem is an informed public, specifically those students in education and non-science disciplines.

Courses Taught

BIOL 1060 Environmental Biology online.

BIOL 1061 Environmental Biology Lab online.

Sampler of Recent Creative Work:

2010:  Creation of an online version of the course BIOL 2250, Ecology, to be piloted Spring 2011.

2010:  Creation of the course Workplace Sustainability, a one-day course for business owners and employees.

2009:  Creation of the course Introduction to Weatherization, a 30-hour course on home energy efficiency for homeowners, related small business owners, and employees. 

2009:  Development of a peer-reviewed online Environmental Biology Laboratory course, sponsored by the UNC- General Administration through LearnNC.  

2008:  Creation of learning module The Population-Poverty-Environment Connection.http://www.unc.edu/world/CC_IntCourses/UNC-Worldview%20Activity.pdf.  A module of online activities to increase international content in environmental science courses system-wide.  Project sponsored by the Worldview program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

2008:  Less Can Be More: Time Management Strategies for Facilitating Online Courses.Learn NC Online. http://www.learnnc.org/search?tag=science&area=learning+materials

2008:  Presentation of "The Seventh Generation" a three-day course in EnvironmentalSustainability, November, 2008.  Sponsored by the international aid organization Heifer International, LittleRock, Arkansas.