User:Smythe

Formerly an LMS administrator and currently an online mathematics instructor, I am Austin Peay State University's 2010 Innovative Professor, an honor given by the Center for Extended and Distance Education. In the summer of 2011, I received a summer research fellowship for exploratory work in open courseware.

I had three articles published in 2011 by Faculty Focus: 1) Solving the Problem of Online Problem Solving, 2) What a Student Wants: Characteristics of Effective Teachers from the Students' Perspective, and 3) How to Win Students and Influence Learning. The second article was identified by Faculty Focus as their second most popular article of 2011.

My conference presentations for 2011 include 1) What Students Want Most from Faculty: Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor at the 17th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning; 2) Getting Online Students Plugged-In at the Innovative Professor Conference; 3) Looking at Class Through the Looking Glass at the 2011 Regional Meeting for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in St. Louis; 4) A Hunting We Will Go at the 27th Annual Distance Teaching & Learning Conference; 5) I Capture the Classroom at the 2011 Teaching Professor Conference; 6) Making Math Move at the 2011 Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Southeastern Section Conference; and 7) Teaching with the Tube: Calculator & Instructional Videos at the 10th Annual Tennessee Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (TMATYC) Conference. (My new year's resolution is that I not make the mistake of presenting at seven conferences in one year, again, at least not while teaching a full course load.)

I have given one invited webinar, What Students Want, through Strayer University's Center for Teaching and Learning. I am presenting on open educational resources and open courseware next week (January 12, 2012) as part of Austin Peay State University's Provost Lecture Series.