Dr. Evrim Baran (School of Education) and Dr. Boris Jovanovic (Natural Resource and Ecology Management) received the Miller Open Education Mini-Grant to create the first “Open Wikibook for the Aquatic Toxicology Graduate Course”. The project aimed to create and integrate an Aquatic Toxicology Wikibook as a major course component to the Aquatic Toxicology graduate course offered in Spring 2019 in the Department of Natural Resource and Ecology Management. The wikibook project is expected to impact student learning by creating a space for collaboration, connection, diversity, and critical assessment of educational content.

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Dr. Baran’s chapter on “professional development for online and mobile learning” is now published at the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education. The chapter examines how professional development can be delivered effectively by looking at strategies to support teachers’ effective online and mobile teaching. The following models are illustrated in this chapter with their focus on teacher transformation and teacher change in professional development programs for online and mobile learning: Mentoring, professional learning communities, and design based learning. Several recommendations are presented to enhance teacher professional development programs for mobile and online learning.

Reference to the chapter: Baran, E. (2018). Professional development for online and mobile learning: Promoting teachers’ pedagogical inquiry. In J. Voogt, G. Knezek, R. Christensen, K. Lai (Eds). International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education. Springer.