Award highlights.

Darden Fellow, Old Dominion University, 2026

Lura Odland Fund Award for Excellence, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2025

2024 Open Scholarship Award, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute

Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award, ​AECT Research & Theory Division, 2023

Outstanding Publication Award: Book Chapter, ​AECT Culture, Learning, and Technology, 2023

1st Place Mixed Methods Journal Award, ​AECT Division of Distance Learning, 2022

Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact Award, ​AECT Learner Engagement Division, 2020

Immersive Learning Award, AECT Emerging Learning Technologies Division, 2019

Outstanding Service Award, AECT Research & Theory Division, 2018

Outstanding Scholarship & Research Award, University of Tampa CSSME, 2018

Advance Simulation and Training Fellowship, Link Foundation, 2011 – 2012

Alan Mandell Award in Instructional Design & Technology, Old Dominion University, 2011

​​Instructional Design Outstanding Graduate Student, Emporia State University, 2009

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Canadian Social Knowledge Institute, 2024 Open Scholarship Award
• AECT Research & Theory Division, Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award, 2023
• AECT Culture, Learning, & Technology, Outstanding Publication Award: Book Chapter, 2023
• AECT Division of Distance Learning, 1st Place Mixed Methods Journal Award, 2022
• ​​AECT Learner Engagement Division, Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact Award, 2020
• AECT Emerging Learning Technologies Division, 2019 Immersive Learning Award [Non-Linear]
• AECT Research & Theory Division Outstanding Service Award, 2018
• CIEE International Faculty Professional Development Alumni Scholarship, 2016
• AERA New Faculty Mentoring Program, Learning & Instructional Division, 2015
• AECT Early Career Symposium, Research & Theory Division, 2012
• Advance Simulation and Training Fellowship, Link Foundation, 2011 – 2012

UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA

• Sabbatical (Spring Semester), 2019 - 2020
• UT International Faculty Development Award, 2019 – 2020
• CSSME Award for Outstanding Scholarship & Research, 2017 - 2018
• CSSME Special Funds for Teaching Innovation, 2017 – 2018
• CSSME Special Funds for Teaching Innovation, 2016 – 2017
• CSSME Special Funds for Teaching Innovation, 2015 – 2016
• UT Faculty Exchange Award to the Teacher Education University Lucerne, 2015
• UT International Faculty Development Award, 2014 – 2015
• ​CSSME Special Funds for Teaching Innovation, 2013 – 2014

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY: GRADUATE STUDIES

• ​​Darden College Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2012 – 2013
• ​Old Dominion University Credit Union Scholarship, 2010 – 2013
• ​Professional Development Award, Darden College of Education, 2011 & 2012
• ​Alan Mandell Award in Instructional Design & Technology, 2011
• ​Gene Newman Award, Training & Education Track, VMASC Conference, 2011
• Graduate Student Travel Award, 2010
• ​Modeling and Simulation Graduate Assistantship, 2009 – 2011

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY: GRADUATE STUDIES

• ​​Instructional Design Outstanding Graduate Student, 2009
• ​Instructional Design & Technology Assistantship, 2007 – 2008

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY: UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

• Gabriela Mistral Award, Sigma Delta Pi National Hispanic Honor Society, 2007
• Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship, Business Honor Society, 2007 – 2008
• Shepherd Scholar, 2005 – 2006
• Emporia State University Presidential Scholarship, 2004 – 2007