Derek ThurberArizona State University | ASU · Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Derek Thurber
Doctor of Education
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Introduction
My current research interests focus on teaching and learning in higher education. My interests include understanding how to envision, design, implement, and evaluate coherent program-level curriculum, including unpacking the mitigating factors of students' construction of knowledge and hidden curriculum on meeting intended outcomes. I am currently working on research that explores how faculty navigate fidelity, structure, and agency in enacting program-level curricula in their courses.
Education
May 2020 - May 2023
September 2014 - December 2015
August 2007 - May 2011
Publications
Publications (5)
The purpose of this action research study was to improve the implementation of a large-scale redesign of teacher preparation programs at Arizona State University. This was a highly complex redesign that impacted over 150 courses across 27 programs, involving more than 200 faculty and 2,500 students annually. As a result, implementing the redesign p...
Background
Most health care professionals get their start in academics without formal teaching training. As such, institutions encourage participation in opportunities to address gaps in faculty’s knowledge of pedagogy and learning theory in order to promote both successful student and patient outcomes. This study aimed to examine the reception of...
Book review of Rachel Gable’s book-length ethnographic study entitled The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities.
While our understanding of how we learn has grown exponentially, our knowledge of how to incorporate these ideas when designing instruction has not. This paper proposes a new framework for designing learning experiences which build on existing instructional design models but also incorporates a deep understanding of humans, how we learn, what motiv...
The purpose of this case study was to examine how a professional graduate program in higher education administration developed seminar-style courses in a blended format. Blended courses involved two extended in-person weekend sessions with synchronous online sessions, and other asynchronous coursework in between. This study explored the importance...
