EMERGE 2020 Presenters

Ruth Heisler is a Senior Instructor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs in the Department of Integrative Physiology at CU Boulder. With over 20 years' experience teaching both large and small lectures and labs, she strongly believes that the most important skill she can teach her students is how to adapt their learning to their environment.

Nicole Jobin is an instructor and associate director in CU Boulder’s Sewall Residential Academic Program. She teaches European history and economic history courses to mainly first-year students and is passionate about making the past come alive through access to documents, artifacts, and archives that encourage students to make meaning of the past and their present. She is also a participant in the CAMPP Innovation Incubator initiative.

Amanda McAndrew is the Faculty Services Portfolio Manager in ASSETT (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology). Amanda’s work combines instructional design, education technology, and faculty professional development. Working in both small and large academic institutions, her professional interests have coalesced around faculty learning communities, critical digital pedagogy, open education, and student-centered teaching approaches that encourage agency and active learning. She is the team lead for the CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) project in the Innovation Incubator.

Jacie Moriyama is the Student Services Portfolio Manager at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has over 20 years of faculty development experience in higher education that includes a broad skill set around Instructional Design, Consulting, Program, Project, and Change Management, Program Development, Strategic Planning, and Teaching.  Jacie has a passion for teaching and learning and finding creative solutions to aid in the success of today's learners.