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Jeff Nugent

Associate Director

Phone: (804) 827-0563 Fax: (804) 827-1393 Office: Center for Teaching Excellence Virginia Commonwealth University Grace E. Harris Hall 1015 Floyd Avenue, Room 5116-B Richmond, VA 23284 Email: jsnugent@vcu.edu CV: Download

Background

Jeff joined the CTE in 2004 and currently serves in the role of Associate Director, providing leadership for the CTE’s effort to develop programs and workshops that support teaching and learning with technology. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Anthropology from Binghamton University, a MAEd from East Carolina University and an Education Specialist degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia where he was a graduate fellow at the Center for Technology and Teacher Education. Jeff has over a decade of experience teaching at the college and secondary level. Prior to joining the CTE he was an instructor at UVa's Curry School of Education, where he taught courses in educational technology and teaching methods to pre-service teachers. He also spent five years teaching middle grades science at Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China. At VCU he teaches courses for the School of Mass Communications (MASC 491 – Learning with Digital Media) and in the Preparing Future Faculty Program in the Graduate School (GRAD 602 – Teaching, Learning and Technology in Higher Education).

Jeff's research interests focus on faculty adoption and effective use of technology to support teaching practices. Current projects include working with faculty to explore the instructional uses of tablet PCs, web-based tools to support collaborative learning, developing resources to support transition to online teaching, and the role of faculty learning communities in sustaining meaningful uses of technology in teaching. In his free time, Jeff trades the wired world for mountain streams where he chases trout with a fly rod.

Current CTE Projects

• Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning Faculty Learning Community: Exploring Smart Phones
• Exploring Tablet PCs in the Classroom
• CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast Series
• Teaching and Learning with Technology Summer Institute
• Learning Technology Research Group

Areas of Interest

• Effective use of instructional technology and web-based tools to support teaching and learning
• Exploring innovative uses of social media to support collaborative learning
• Course design and development using learning management systems (Blackboard & LON-CAPA)
• Instructional uses of personal response system technology (“clickers” and web-based polling)
• Blogging in education
• Mobile learning environments