Leadership
2023
Recipient, Earl F. Strohbehn Internship, Addie Kinsinger Leadership Development Internship Award, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
2021
Outstanding Program Award, Purdue University. Received on behalf of the Purdue Association for Learning Design and Technology (PALDT). The award was given to PALDT for organizing the most outstanding campus events in 2020-21 during my presidency.
Research
2023
Recipient, Early Career Symposium (ECS) Award, Research & Theory Division, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
2023
Recipient, Frank B. DeBruicker Graduate Award for Educational Technology, Purdue University College of Education ($2,000).
2023
Co-recipient, Best Paper Award for “Community of Inquiry Design Decisions Across Disciplines,” Online Teaching and Learning SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA).
2022
Co-recipient, People’s Choice Award for “Theory of Learning in Micro,” Theory Spotlight Competition, Research and Theory Division, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
Instructional Design
2021
Co-recipient, Excellence in Instructional Design for Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning 2, UPCEA-University Professional & Continuing Education Association Regional Award.
2021
Co-recipient of an Honorable Mention Award, Nova Southeastern University Award for Outstanding Instructional Design by a Graduate Student for a microlearning video “Asynchronous Engagement,” AECT Design & Development Division.
2019
Co-recipient, 1st Place in AECT Distance Education Best Practice Award for the project Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL), Division of Distance Learning, Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
Innovation
2021
Team member of one of the ten finalists in the Ideas and Innovation Challenge, Purdue Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for the project “Personalized learning space for students through the application of machine learning to improve online instruction in the time of COVID-19”
2019
Co-recipient, Runner-up team, University Case Competition, International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Conference.
Teaching
2017
E-teacher scholarship, Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting, US Department of State and FHI 360.