Brad Cohen
Assistant Director, Manager of Faculty Development Programs and Consultation Services
I joined the Digital Media Center in 2001 and became assistant director in early 2006. With expertise in faculty development and instructional design, I enjoy collaborating with members of the DMC team to develop services and programs that serve faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota.
As an experienced professor concerned with excellence in teaching, I understand first-hand the challenge of creating an effective learning environment and the ways in which technology might prove useful. After earning my M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I landed a tenure-track position at the University of Evansville in Southern Indiana. While there, I enjoyed my first foray into using technology in education (creating the Cultural Perspectives in Evolution site). I've learned a great deal about Web design since then, but even that relatively crude Web site had a substantial positive impact upon how I and other professors approached the topic of evolution in a general humanities course required of all students. Evolution and its broader cultural implications remains a keen interest of mine.
I am actively engaged in evaluating the impact of technology on teaching and learning in higher education, and in exploring effective models of support to help instructors use technology to enhance student learning. Some of my recent scholarships in these areas include the following:
Walker, J.D., Paul Baepler, and Bradley Alan Cohen. “The SoTL Paradox: Results without Rewards,” College Teaching, forthcoming.
Greenhow, Christine, J.D. Walker, Dan Donnelly, and Bradley A. Cohen. “The Fair Use Analysis Tool: Empowering ECT Professionals to Make Fair Use Decisions.” TechTrends, forthcoming.
Greenhow, Christine, J.D. Walker, Dan Donnelly, and Bradley A. Cohen. “Fair Use Education for the Twenty-first Century: A Comparative Study of the Use of an Interactive Tool to Guide Decision Making,” Innovate, forthcoming.
Cohen, Bradley A. “2006 ISSOTL Conference Review,” Transform, Vol. 1 No. 2, February 2007.
Walker, J.D., and Bradley A. Cohen. “21st Century Faculty and Students: How to Use What We Know." Paper presented at Midwest Educause, March 2008.
Cohen, Bradley A., Linda Jorn and J.D. Walker. “Faculty Development for a New Millenium,” pre-conference half-day workshop for Educause 2007, October 2007.
Cohen, Bradley A. “Faculty Development and the Net Savvy Student,” invited presentation for ELI Fall Focus Session, August 2007.
Jorn, Linda, and Bradley A. Cohen. Aligning Faculty Development with the Needs of Today's Students: A Case Study,” invited synchronous web seminar presentation for Academic Impressions, June 2007.
Avery, Melissa D., J.D. Walker, and Bradley A. Cohen. “Program Evaluation.” Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Best Practices Institute: Excellence in Health Professions Education, University of Minnesota, May 2007.
Cohen, Bradley A. “Interactive teaching with WebCT: Beyond RAC,” invited presentation and panel moderator for Department of Surgery Education Retreat, January, 2007.
Zuiker, Virginia, Bradley A. Cohen, and Megan Lundberg. "A Collaborative Approach to Redesigning a Large Enrollment Course Using Case Studies." Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., United States, November 9-12, 2006.
Cohen, Bradley A. “Lessons in Large Course Redesign,” CIC-LT conference, University of Minnesota, November 2006
Baepler, Paul, J.D. Walker, and Bradley A. Cohen. “Engaging Large Lectures: Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technology.” Poster presented at the annual conference of Campus Technology, Boston, MA, United States, July 31-August 3, 2006.
Contact Information
| E-mail: | cohenb@umn.edu |
| Telephone: | (612) 626-0282 |
| Office: | 216 Walter Library |
