Presenter(s)
James Callahan
UH Mānoa SONDH
Honolulu, HI, USA
James Callahan is a Senior Instructional Designer at the Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing at the University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa. He also received his MEd in Educational Technology at UH Mānoa. Has worked in Higher Education Instructional Technology and Online learning for more than 20 years. His research interests are in online learning, online mentoring and technology adoption life cycles.
Avree Ito-Fujita
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI, USA
Avree Ito-Fujita is an instructional designer for the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Office of the Vice President for Community Colleges. As a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, her research interests include online and community writing center pedagogies with a focus on multimodal tutoring and composition methods.
Shayna Katz
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI, USA
Education, course design, and language learning have always been and continue to be Shayna’s passion which she has delved into through teaching, instructional design, research and professional development. She earned an MA in Spanish with a focus on pedagogy at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies in Spanish Applied Linguistics, and a certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Shayna is currently an instructional designer with Hawai'i Pacific University, as well as a PhD student in Learning Design and Technology at the University of Hawai‘i. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal expression and social presence in online courses.