Buffalo State College
Buffalo State College
Loretta Driskel is senior instructional designer at Clarkson, partnering with faculty and staff to create engaging, diverse teaching and learning experiences for students and faculty. Although New York State certified to teach secondary education at the 7-12 level in 2000, her passion has been teaching, along with instructional design and development, in higher education and her mission is to help faculty to balance student success with efficient class management.
In addition to working in higher education, Loretta has used her entrepreneurial skills to start several small businesses, most recently, Mobile Tech Mentor, which included consulting with clients on their various personal and educational technology needs.
Loretta lives in Colorado with her husband and cat family, and they have a son and daughter-in-law within a few hours drive. Loretta enjoys reading fictional novels and spending time in the wilderness.
Certifications
2022 - Editor, MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board
2017 - Quality Matters Master Reviewer (current)
2015 – MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board (current)
2015 - Open SUNY Fellow Expert Online Instructional Designer (current)
2009 - Quality Matters Peer Reviewer (current)
2004 - SUNY Learning Network (SLN) Campus Instructional Designer
2000 - New York State Certification in Business Education - Provisional
- 2021 US Distance Learning Association Excellence in Teaching/Training Award for the development, management, and facilitation of the RISE: Reframing Instruction for Success Everywhere workshop for instructors
- Phalanx Distinguished Service Award, 2021 (As Clarkson TLC staff)
- MERLOT Peer Reviewers Extraordinaire 2021
- 2021 Effective Practice Award from the Online Learning Consortium for the development, management, and facilitation of the RISE: Reframing Instruction for Success Everywhere workshop for instructors
Presentations
- Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Innovate
- Just Sit Right Back And You’ll Hear A Tale: Development Of An Interactive, Baseline Professional Development Initiative (OLC Effective Practice Award Winner! 2021)
- Building a Bridge to Success: Meeting Your Students Where They Are (2020)
- OLC Accelerate
- Templates: Who, What, When, Where, Why, And How! (2018)
- Quality Matters Connect Conference
- Poster: Templates: Who, What, When, Where, Why, And How! (2018)
- Association for Distance Education and Independent Learning (ADEIL)
- Enhance Your Online Course and Engage Your Students with Video (2016)
- Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference
- Add Zest to the Final Project!/Technology Test Kitchen (2015)
- Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference
- Adventures in Energy Course Redesign: Can You Say Solar Photovoltaic? (2014)
- eLearning Consortium of Colorado Conference
- Online Course Quality Task Force (2014)
- Sloan-C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning/Merlot
- Opening the Gate: How You and Your Students Will Benefit from Open Educational Resources (2014)
- Great Tools That We Use (2014)
- Sloan-C International Online Learning
- Anytime, Anywhere: Enhance Your Online Course and Engage Your Students with Video (2013)
- Faculty Focus
- Extra Credit in Education (Seminar 2011)
- NCCC Teacher Academy’s Summer Institute (2010)
- Niagara’s Exploration of Technology in Teaching (NETT)
- Breaking the Ice; Web 2.0 Applications - Cool Tool’s…– (2009, 2010)
- Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT)
- Course Redesign Made Easy w/SoftChalk (2010)
- ANGEL Tips & Tricks: Student Engagement for More Effective Management (2009)
- Using LORs and Groups in ANGEL (2008)
- Enhance Your Teaching With MERLOT (2007)
- Using ANGEL to Support Groups and Clubs (2006)
- SUNY Online Learning Summit (SOL) ( DOODLE)
- Small Business Development - Online Environment; Program Level Quality (2008)
- Quality at NCCC (2007)
- SUNY Professional Development Webinar Series
- Organizing Groups & Clubs with ANGEL Learning Object Repository Templates (2008)
- Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference (TLT)
- Using Macromedia Captivate to Create Online Tutorials (2005)