Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005
September 16, 2005, 8:00am - 4:00pm, Mesa Community College
Text & Tech Lunch Panel Members
The following faculty members and one of their students are serving on the lunch time panel discussion:
John Arle
John is serving his 2nd year as Faculty in Residence at the MCLI assigned to Chair the Ocotillo group. Currently a residential biology faculty at Phoenix College, as a thirty year teaching veteran, John has taught nearly all BIO courses offered through the community college system and served for 15 years as the Sciences Faculty Chair at Rio Salado College. Over the past decade he has pioneered online instruction for lab sciences. His current work with anatomy & physiology has brought national attention and resulted in a faculty consultant position with John Wiley & Sons publishing. Within recent years, John successfully experimented with hybridizing his Environmental Biology class resulting in dramatically increased successful completion rates. He is also a current co-chair for the Curriculum and Instruction Committee within the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.
Alisa Cooper
Alisa has been a residential faculty at South Mountain Community College for eight years. She is currently a co-chair of the Ocotillo Action Group on Hybrid Course Sttructures. While on sabbatical this past year, she finished her doctoral dissertation on the effects of hybrid courses on retention and student satisfaction. Before starting her teaching career, she studied communications at Phoenix College and earned her B.A. in English Literature from California State University, Bakersfield. Alisa earned her M.Ed. degree in English Secondary Education from Northern Arizona University and earned her doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. Alisa advocates using technology in the classroom, and is constantly trying new technologies in her classes. She currently uses Blackboard, blogs, instructional videos, student webpages, Flash presentations, and this year will be trying out podcasts and wikis.
Otis White
Otis holds a BA in Human Resources and an MBA in International Business as well as numerous credit hours in psychology (studying cognitive learning processes and statistics, and teaching research methods lab courses). Since 1993, coming to Rio Salado as a counselor in the Small Business Development center, Otis has taught over 170 semester hours across 23 courses from the business curriculum including sections from the GBS, MGT, IBS, SBS, and TQM areas. In addition he teaches the capstone course (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management) for graduating seniors at the Polytechnic campus of ASU in the Business Administration Program. Otis has also started three companies over the years. His early business background was in advertising and marketing and later he moved on to consulting and corporate education. Otis has worked in the corporate education and consulting fields for the past 20 years.
