#Carol ann drive ed plus
All four courses aim to engage students in the learning process, eliminating the need for rote learning, and none have a final exam.Ĭarol is a PLuS Alliance Fellow, in which she engages with colleagues at Arizona State University and King's College London to explore reimagining online education.
Her four fully online courses (all electives) are BEES2741 Introduction to Astrobiology BEES2680 Introduction to Science Communication BEES6741 Astrobiology: Life in the Universe and BEES6800 The Science of Science Communication.
She is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant between a small group of UNSW researchers - led by Prof Dennis Del Favero - and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.Ĭarol concentrates on creating and delivering fully online courses at UNSW with the aim of exploring the medium to reimagine online learning and teaching approaches - the latter of which has been reinforced in new approaches to online learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The third grant helped to transfer technology-enabled adaptive e-learning from the university environment into the high school environment. The Mars Lab was a self-funding national and international project in which students could plan Mars missions and drive experimental Mars rovers in the Mars Yard from their classrooms. Two of the grants raised the Mars Lab project at the Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences in two stages as an education project for high school students and a research facility, forming a living lab in the museum. Between 20 she won a total of $5.5m in three grants for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). She is also one of two Education Focussed Champions for the Faculty of Science. Carol is currently Online Learning Lead and Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator in BEES and co-Lead of the UNSW Online Learning and Innovation Community of Practice. Four have graduated. Carol also has considerable industry experience as a journalist in print, radio, and television in the first third of her career. She has supervised six PhD students, all but one as a primary supervisor. She is an Associate Professor with in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) in the Faculty of Science. As an outspoken advocate for underserved and vulnerable populations, she strongly promotes the concept that health, mental health, human rights and human dignity are inextricably linked.A/Prof Carol Oliver is a nationally and internationally known expert in evidence-based science communication, with a strong interest in education innovation in online learning and teaching and interests in astrobiology and space science. As a retired professor emerita, she continues to teach classes in the University and the Medical Center, mentoring students in community health Initiatives and carrying out projects within Nashville that relate to refugees/immigrants, domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. She has carried out diverse types of assessments in Kenya, China, Mozambique, Guatemala, Bosnia and and Cuba. Etherington worked with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, teaching and mentoring interdisciplinary graduate students pursuing projects and careers in community health, global health, disaster response and caring for victims of violence. She has served on the Metro Nashville/Davidson County Board of Health since 2009.įrom 2008 to 2014, Ms. She has been honored with the International Red Cross’ Florence Nightingale Medal (1997/98), received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of New Hampshire in 2004 and was named Distinguished Alumna of the Year by the Vanderbilt Alumni Association in 2007 and inducted into the Tennessee Healthcare Hall of Fame in 2018. In 2013 she worked from Jordan and Lebanon to evaluate an MSF mental health program in Iraq.Ī member of MSF/USA Board of Directors from 1998 to 2004, she served the last two years of her tenure as President of that Board. In the early 90s, she completed four missions in war-torn Bosnia and since 1996, has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Bosnia, Poland, Honduras, Tajikistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Angola and in the Darfur refugee camps of Eastern Chad. Etherington first served on an international emergency medical team in the aftermath of the Pol Pot genocide. during times of natural and man-made disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, school shootings and New York City post 9/11.
She established one of the first police-based counseling programs in the nation within the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department.
Carol Etherington is a nurse who has worked with traumatized populations in urban and rural areas around the globe.