FDU Rothman Center, Metropolitan Campus of FDU
Keynote Speaker
Jason A. Scorza
Do Online Students Dream of Electronic Professors?
Drawing upon his experience developing and teaching on-line courses at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Scorza describes an approach to online teaching that favors empathy over efficiency in the hope of achieving both.Jason A. Scorza is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has been a major contributor to Fairleigh Dickinson’s global education and distance learning initiatives and is co-recipient of the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) award for Outstanding Online Course and recipient of the Sloan Consortium award for Excellence in Online Teaching. His work in the area of distance learning has been featured in The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University and is author of numerous papers and articles on citizenship and civic education, as well as a book, Strong Liberalism: Habits of Mind for Democratic Citizenship (Tufts University Press, 2007).
