Formadores - Susan M. Zvacek

Dr. Susan M. Zvacek (CollegeTeachingCoach.com) is an independent consultant, speaker, and online teacher, focused on cultivating learning-centered teaching in higher education. Her disciplinary interests include online learning, engineering education, and instructional design. Susan’s speaking experience is diverse, with keynote addresses and workshops in the Czech Republic, Austria, Costa Rica, Estonia, Slovakia, Cyprus, England, Portugal, China, Germany, and throughout the United States. She has had two Fulbright appointments (Prague, CZ and Porto, PT) and served as an NSF reviewer for grants in graduate STEM education. Her 25+ years of experience in higher education included teaching, dissertation advising, and administration. She has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Distinguished Speaker for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Her publications are on topics such as course design, online learning, remote labs, and higher order thinking, including co-authoring Teaching and Learning at a Distance (currently in its 8th edition) and the original Blackboard for Dummies, as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and newsletter columns.