{"id":5498,"date":"2023-03-03T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitallearning.ucf.edu\/ilab\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:51:45","slug":"aim-nicole-lapeyrouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitallearning.ucf.edu\/ilab\/aim-nicole-lapeyrouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nicole Lapeyrouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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<\/a> Impact Individual Award for her significant and steady effort to reduce course material costs to students at UCF. She created multimedia content and adopted open educational resources (OER) to be made available to not only the UCF community but beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These free open access educational videos were made to replace paid published content, and OER textbooks were submitted for two STEM undergraduate courses: geology and chemistry. Creating an environment to emulate students’ social culture has proven an effective method of enhancing retention among students and by decreasing students’ costs for educational resources. Doing so has made the courses more equitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine sitting down in a coffee shop enjoying a cup of coffee discussing concepts you learned in class, or a subject you have general interest in. This is the image I wanted to convey for my courses.<\/p>\n