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The winner of the 2024 Quality Impact Award is Charlotte Jones-Roberts. Since joining the instructional design team in 2018, she has completed more than 60 reviews as a primary and secondary reviewer (an average of 8.5 reviews per year for the past seven years). As illustrated in her submission narrative, throughout this time she has…

As a university, we strive to do our best for our students and provide them with quality courses. The Knights’ Choice Award – a student nominated award – recognizes a faculty member that has been selected by a student(s) for not only their use of affordable course materials, but also how their course materials affected…

You don’t need to squint into a microscope to see how a department has worked to help students succeed. The Biology department implemented Open Educational Resources (OER) across the department through the adoption of OpenStax. Their department was selected to receive the 2024 AIM High Impact Group award because of their large-scale impact on thousands…

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree.” ~ Erza Pound Christian Beck, an Associate Lecturer in the College of Arts and Humanities in the department of English, has made a significant and steady effort to reduce course material costs for students at UCF and has created two Open Educational Resource…

Student voices are what we strive to hear and listen to. The Knights’ Choice Award – a student nominated award – recognizes a faculty member that has been selected by a student for not only their use of affordable course materials, but also how this affected the student financially and academically. Dr. David Rozek, an…

The winner of the 2023 Quality Impact Award is Dr. Roslyn Miller. Since March 2019, she has completed 38 total course reviews (an average of 9.5 reviews per year for the last four years), particularly in the STEM discipline. Dr. Miller provided an exemplary narrative that illustrated how she has been dedicated to quality course…

You don’t have to dig too far to find a group of faculty members dedicated to student learning and savings. The Anthropology department was selected to receive the 2023 AIM High Impact Group Award because of their large-scale efforts to implement open educational resources (OER) and library-sourced materials across the department. The department’s decision to…

When two things combine, a beautiful chemical reaction can occur. Such is the case for this year’s individual award recipient. Dr. Nicole Lapeyrouse, a lecturer in the College of Sciences in the department of Chemistry, was selected to receive the 2023 AIM High Impact Individual Award for her significant and steady effort to reduce course…

Overview Instructor: Dr. Marino Nader Instructional Designer: Jim Paradiso College/Department: CECS, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course Numbers & Titles: EML3701: Fluid Mechanics, EML3262: Kinematics of Mechanisms, EGN3343: Thermodynamics Large class loads and a lack of resources. Instructors and professors have long been faced with similar challenges at large universities. Dr. Marino Nader is one such…

Overview Instructor: Martha Hubertz Instructional Designer: Joseph Lloyd College/Department: COS, Psychology Course Numbers & Titles: SOP3004: Social Psychology, SOP3742: Psychology of Women Universal design: usable, accessible, inclusive. These are the guiding principles Martha Hubertz abided by when she redesigned her courses to level the proverbial playing field. Doing so ensures that all students are not…