Digital Media and Learning Research Area:
The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information for learning opportunities
Published Faculty:
Clark J. Hickman, Ed.D.
Emeritus Associate Dean And Emeritus Associate Research Professor
Dr. Clark Hickman earned his doctorate from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1993. He studies self-efficacy theory as it relates to motivation to learn, as well as student and instructor behaviors.
Shea Kerkhoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kerkhoff utilizes mixed methods to investigate critical, digital, and global literacies. For her dissertation study, she was named an International Literacy Association Outstanding Dissertation Finalist. Her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Reading Research Quarterly. She taught high school English for seven years, including North Carolina and District of Columbia Public Schools. In 2018 she was named a Longview Foundation Global Teacher Educator fellow.
Kim Song, Ed.D.
Professor
Kim H. Song, Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, received her Ed.D in Instructional Processes from Southern Illinois University –Edwardsville in 1991. Kim is a bilingual in Korean and English, and her main research interests include:
- Backward Instructional Design and Assessment
- Immigrant Family Literacy Development, and Their Identity within School Community
- Rededefining Creativity in Technology-Mediated Online Courses
- Intersectionality of Racism and Linguicism for Immigrant and Refugee Learners
- Technology-Mediated Online Teaching and Learning
- Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Content/Math Teaching f...