Dr. Moon-Heum Cho is New Consultant/Designer

After an exhaustive regional and national search, CELT welcomes Dr. Moon-Heum Cho as the center’s new Instructional/Consultant Designer. Dr. Cho will join designer-consultants Sam Birk and Darlene Miller on Feb. 1.

“Moon-Heum enthusiastically brings a new dynamic to our design team,” commented CELT director Gail Rathbun. A 2000 graduate of Andong National University in Andong, South Korea, with a Master’s Degree from there in 2003, Dr. Cho will complete his Ph.D at the University of Missouri School of Information Science and Learning Technologies this December. He was selected from a large pool of candidates after telephone interviews and a presentation to the faculty here in September.

Dr. Cho has a broad background in both teaching and instructional design, having taught graduate level courses in Digital Communications, Using Technology to Enhance Learning, and Learning with the Internet. He has worked with faculty to redesign courses and develop curriculum in a variety of disciplines, including biology, engineering, technology, health and education. His journal publications include co-authorship of “Exploring the relationships between students’ academic motivation and social ability in online learning environments,” published in 2006 in The Internet & Higher Education.

Dr. Cho said he is looking forward to contributing to the IPFW faculty’s research activities in learning and teaching processes. “Particularly, I am excited to support faculty who are interested in students’ learning strategies, self-regulated learning, conceptual change in science, epistemological beliefs, and motivation,” he reported. Towards those ends, he is currently working on and testing a theoretical model of online self-regulated learning.

Upon his arrival in February, he hopes to get immediately involved with conducting task analysis for course design and development as well as conducting needs assessment and formative or summative evaluation for researching students’ learning processes and their satisfaction with the courses or learning systems (e.g., Blackboard). “I am immensely pleased to have been honored with this position,” he informed. “And I’m greatly looking forward to interacting with IPFW’s faculty staff and students.”

Dr. Cho’s portfolio can be viewed at http://web.missouri.edu/~mckr7/.