Help IT Students Stay on an Effective Learning Path
Join Alan Shapiro of Pearson and Professor Lisa Troxler of St. Louis Community College to discuss one of our newest features in MyLab® IT – Sequential Modules.
In this webinar, we share one of our newest features in MyLab® IT – Sequential Modules. We discuss how Sequential Modules allow you to create a learning path of prerequisites for your students that require students to pass the mastery threshold before moving onto the next assignment in the module.
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Alan Shapiro, Pearson
Alan has worked at St. Petersburg College (SPC) in Florida for 18 years before coming to Pearson as the IT Faculty Advisor. Over his years at SPC, he has taught a variety of courses including Advanced Web Page Creation, Oracle, and Office Applications. When the college decided to adopt MyLab IT, Alan coordinated the school’s implementation to the tune of 5,000 students annually. Courses are taught in all modalities; online, blended, and face-to-face.
Alan also served as an Instructional Technology Specialist, supporting faculty with their D2L integrations with publisher content and developed numerous courses for SPC’s award-winning eCampus online learning program. He holds a MS in Computer Science Education from Nova Southeastern University. As the IT Faculty Advisor, Alan works in partnership with local sales teams to consult on critical and complex MyLab IT course setups, content and assessment strategies, offer pedagogical guidance in the selection of simulation assignments, grader projects, and the project creation tool.
Professor Lisa Troxler, St. Louis Community College
Lisa has a Master's degree in MIS and International Business. She has worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), IBM, and Dell. Her favorite job was at IBM as Technical Support at McDonnell Douglas/Boeing where she served the client deskside and rotated into the call center and briefly assisted the hardware team. Lisa was chosen for a special assignment on the Tiger Team to assist tech support in Long Beach/Huntington Beach, California for three months during their transition from Macs to PCs, working their ticket backlog and training their techs. Lisa also won an award for working on a manual for management at IBM. Her manager selected her to represent their team as Microsoft Subject Matter Expert (SME).
Lisa has taught at John A. Logan College, University of Phoenix, St. Charles Community College in Continuing Education, St. Charles School District in Adult Education, Webster University (XHTML and Desktop Publishing/Marketing/Adobe) for more than 30 years and still enjoys the challenge. Challenge, she says, because IT is always changing.
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