As the Associate Director of Faculty Development, Kate Johnson ensures that professional development supports faculty success by pushing a continuous engagement with literature on teaching and learning and partnership with faculty and a broad set of institutional stakeholders, whose work defines curricular, instructional, and student support expectations. Her scholarly agenda deals with articulating a research-based definition of caring online instruction and identifying improvements to core teaching practices – specifically leveraging formative assessment to support students – that bring it to fruition.
After spending a decade working in sales, training, and product management in the corporate environment, Kate has served in higher education with a focus on adult learners since 2009. Kate holds a BA in Business and an MA in Public Administration. Her combination of management, instructional design, and teaching experience makes her passionate about increasing educators’ professional competence with effective pedagogy in the online environment.