FARAH L. VALLERA, PHD
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do good. be kind.


​I am a seasoned faculty member, educational researcher, ​instructional designer, and instructional technologist.
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Research Interests
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Integrated STEM
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Design Thinking, Making, & Play (even for adults!)
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Instructional and Learning Design
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Instructional Technology (and dressing like Harry Potter)

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Using design thinking practices to create technology-driven adult professional development programs
2019

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Understanding and employing design thinking and combining tools with technologies can prepare instructors to develop skills of tomorrow’s workforce, innovators, and future leaders. Best practices and examples of such PD are offered. 
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Integrating STEM with AgLIT: The efficacy of a project-based agricultural literacy curriculum for upper-primary students
2019

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Agriculture can serve as a unifying and contextualizing topic that connects science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects through similar knowledge, skills, and attitudes/beliefs (KSABs) exhibited in each.
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Durkheim said what?: Creating talking textbooks with augmented reality and project-based activities
2019

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This study explored utilizing augmented reality (AR) and project-based learning (PBL) strategies to increase students’ understandings of sociological paradigms and the theorists’ motivations behind their development. ​
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Andragogical design considerations for online multicultural education

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2019

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Online education is expanding in higher education as a means of cost effective, accessible, convenient, and flexible environments for learning.
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