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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 Nugent joined the CTE in 2004 and currently serves in the role of Associate Director. Jeff provides leadership for the CTE’s effort to develop programs and workshops that support teaching and learning with technology. He holds an EdS in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia where he was a graduate research fellow at the Center for Technology and Teacher Education, a MAEd in Science Education from East Carolina University, and a BA in Philosophy and Anthropology from Binghamton University. Jeff has over a decade of experience teaching at the secondary and college level. Prior to joining the CTE he was an instructor at the University of Virginia’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 overseas at an international school in Shanghai, China. Jeff has published articles in several science education related journals, and most recently was a contributing author to a National Educational Technology Standards for Students curriculum series publication. He is passionate about the role technology can play in creating meaningful learning environments and transforming teaching.

I blog at http://techne.edublogs.org/

At the CTE you’ll find Jeff engaged in the following areas:

• Emerging technologies and web-based tools for teaching and learning
• Consultations with faculty and departments about the effective use of technology to support teaching and learning
• Course design and development using learning management systems (Blackboard & LON-CAPA)
• Electronic Portfolios
• Learning-Centered Teaching
• Teaching with Technology Faculty Institutes
• CTE Faculty Learning Community Program (Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning)
• Exploring Tablet PCs in the Classroom
• Web conferencing technology to support virtual classrooms
• Instructional uses of personal response system technology
• Exploring social computing tools to support learning
• Try to make sense of Web 2.0

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