Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowlin, PhD, former instructional designer at HNU, for their proposal, “Exploring Polar Opposite Worlds in Criminology Through Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.”
The award-winning project connects students and instructors at Gävle University (HIG), in Sweden, and HNU in an online learning experience. The project is an extension of previous work that Gallo did with social work collaboration with U.S. students and students from Stockholm University.
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