Studio e Backstage is the course that over 125 faculty members at UWF have taken in the past two years. In the course, faculty design and implement a fully online course with the assistance of ATC instructional designers, graphic artists and programmers. There have been many outstanding courses developed using this process!

The goal of Studio e is to provide the tools needed to develop a fully online course using Desire2Learn (D2L). Major course outcomes include:

• Develop a pedagogical framework for a fully online course.
• Incorporate engaging online teaching and learning strategies aligned to specific course learning outcomes.
• Design an assessment strategy aligning to course learning outcomes
• Promote an interaction and student engagement strategy through communications and course management.

Join a Studio e Course

Studio e is offered three times a year once in Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. If you are interested in participating in Studio e courses, please work through your college distance learning contact. Courses are selected based on college priorities. Contacts are as follows:

• College of Arts & Sciences - Karen Goldschmidt
• College of Business - Dr. Tim O'Keefe
• College of Professsional Studies - Dr. Tom Kramer, Dr. Karen Rasmussen

Meet our Instructors

Dr. Pam Northrup joined the faculty at UWF in 1993 and began teaching her first online course in 1994. She has worked extensively in the area of online learning for most of her career doing research on areas of interaction and online learning, distance learning macro-systems, learning objects for instruction, and overarching performance support for online learners. As well, she has spent several years working with the military exploring emerging teaching and learning models to best serve our service personnel. She has assisted in the development of performance support systems, elearning, and for the past three years the role of mobile learning for deployed service personnel. Her most recent efforts include defining parameters of quality in online learning and student engagement across the generations. She is the editor of a new book entitled Learning Objects for Instruction.

Dr. Karen Rasmussen joined the UWF faculty in 1994 and began teaching her first online course shortly thereafter (when HTML was king and bandwidth was 2400 baud). She has worked extensively in the area of web-based learning environments for most of her career, conducting research in areas of individual differences, design and development of distance learning environments and systems, series gaming for instruction, and learning objects for instruction. She has spent several years working to design, develop, and implement instruction with the focus on access, especially with the military, exploring best practices that serve our service personnel. She and a co-author have published a book: E-learning: Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Meet our Designers

Cindy Mersereau has been with UWF since 1999.  She began as a UWF student facilitator in the DL labs and in the Director’s office at the OWC/UWF Joint Campus in FWB.  She earned her B.S.B.A. in Management in 2002 and continued working in FWB as a graduate student at the HAAS center and as secretary to the director, until the ATC was formed in 2003.  Cindy received her Masters Degree in Educational Leadership/Education and Training Management/IT in 2005 and is currently working as lead instructional designer on UWF’s Anytime…Anywhere Mobile Learning Partnership with the Navy.  Now located at the Emerald Coast Combs Campus, she serves as the ATC contact and coordinator for faculty development and support, providing training sessions and consultations for online course development and implementation to faculty at the EC locations. Prior to coming to UWF, she worked in the restaurant business for 15 years and owned/managed a small landscaping business for five years. 

Kassy Tyler first came to UWF in 1995 as the Director of Audience and Member Services for WUWF Public Media after earning a B.A. in Psychology at the university. She earned her Master’s in Psychology and Counseling from Troy State in 1997 and then in 2000 left the campus to  accompany her husband on an overseas civil service assignment on the Greek island of Crete. Kassy was appointed as the Education Services Officer – Director of Navy College for NSA Souda Bay, Chania, Crete in May of 2001 and served in this capacity until they departed the island in the fall of 2005. Returning to the Pensacola area, Kassy entered the Ed. S. program in Instructional Technology and served as the Major Giving Director for WUWF until transferring in 2007 to the Academic Technology Center. Kassy graduated with her Ed.S. in spring 2008 and is now a doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction/Instructional Technology. She consults with faculty in designing engaging online courses and is part of the instructional design team creating mobile learning courses for the Navy.

For more information about Studio e, contact Sharon Cobb (scobb@uwf.edu) at 473-7468 in the Academic Technology Center.