Angela Elkordy, Ph.D.

Dr. Elkordy currently teaches students at all levels, but primarily in graduate and doctoral courses in technology and learning sciences, educational research and foundations, educational leadership and teacher preparation:

EDL 526   Realizing Vision through Technology, Human and Financial Resources

ESR 505    Educational Inquiry and Assessment

ESR 514   Research in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers

ESR 612   Empirical/ Analytical Research

LSE 500   Introduction to Learning Sciences and Technology

EPS 513   Frameworks for Data-Driven Instruction

EPS 541   Cognition and Learning

TIE 300   Introduction to Technology in Education

TIE 525   Designing Digital Age Learning Environments

TIE 535   Instructional Design Foundations for Digital Age Learning Environments

TIE 542   Digital Tools for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

TIE 575   Leading Learning Technologies and Instructional Design with Shared Vision

TIE 592   Portfolio Seminar to Advance Content Knowledge, Professional Growth and Leadership

TIE 593   Research Seminar: Emerging Technologies

Special Topic Workshops: 

TIE 585   Digital Games and Learning (Workshop)

TIE 585   Introduction to Makerspaces and STEAM

TIE 585   Introduction to Design Thinking for Elementary Grades

Areas of Expertise:

Learning Sciences, teaching and learning in digitally-mediated contexts, digital badges, teacher and principal leadership, STEM/STEAM/ MakerEd.

Select Recent Publications: 

• Forthcoming: Plugged into Learning (ISTE, 2016/7), Community and Competition: Strategies for Game-based Learning for Educator Preparation (Game-based Learning: Theories, Strategies and Outcomes, 2017, edited by Young Baek)
• Elkordy, A. (2016). Development and implementation of digital badges for learning STEM practices in secondary contexts: A pedagogical approach with empirical evidence.  In D. Ifenthaler (Ed.), Foundations of digital badges and micro-credentials. New York: Springer
• * Fontichiaro, K. & Elkordy, A.(2015). From stars to constellations: Digital badging can chart Growth. ISTE: Entrsckt
• Fontichiaro, K. & Elkordy, A.(2013). Getting started with digital badges. MACUL Journal, 34:1, pp. 30-31: http://www.macul.org/downloads/journals/macul_journal_fall_2013_20130730_122011_1.pdf
• Fontichiaro, K. & Elkordy, A. (2016). Transparency and purpose in professional learning outcomes. In D. Ifenthaler (Ed.), Foundations of digital badges and micro-credentials. New York: Springer
• *Elkordy, A. (2012). The future is now: Unpacking digital badging and micro-credentialing for K-20 educators. Talking Points: Blog of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA):http://goo.gl/dw8Fd

Select Recent Presentations:

•  Annual MSU College of Education Technology Conference, November, 2016. “Coding and Computational Thinking for Every Kid (and Teacher!),” Michigan State University, Center for Teaching and Technology, Lansing, MI
• ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), “Engaged: Teaching Teachers Engineering with Design Challenges in MakerSpaces,” June 2016, Denver, CO
• Illinois Computing Educators (ICE),  “Engagement by Design: MakerSpaces & Engineering in the Classroom,” February, 2016, St. Charles, IL
• ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), “Learning by Design with Digital Badges,” June 2015, Philadelphia, PA
• MACUL (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning), ”iSpaces: Leverage Learning with Digital Badges,” March, 2015, Detroit, MI
• Illinois Computing Educators (ICE),  “Designed for Success: Professional Development and Digital Badges,” February, 2015, St. Charles, IL
• Annual MSU College of Education Technology Conference, November, 2014. “Workshop: Digital Badges for Learning,” Michigan State University, Center for Teaching and Technology, Lansing, MI
• Digital Media and Learning Conference, March, 2014, “ Digital Badging in K-12 Environments,” DML Café, Boston, MA
• MAPEA Michigan Association of Professors of Educational Administration, Virtual Symposium, March 2014, “Digital Badges for STEM Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Participant Outcomes.”
• MACUL (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning), March 2014. “What Do You Know? Professional Learning Possibilities Using Digital Badging,” Grand Rapids, MI

Biography:

Dr. Elkordy has always been interested in teaching and learning, educational leadership,  knowledge construction, storage and retrieval and learning technologies. Before transitioning to academia, she worked in the fields of education, information science and technology as a teacher, school administrator, librarian, programmer, researcher and school principal. She has extensive experience working with under-resourced schools with student populations which are linguistically, culturally and economically diverse. 

Education:

Eastern Michigan University, MI, Doctorate in Educational Leadership  (cognate: Instructional Technology)

Eastern Michigan University, MI, Educational Specialist

University at Buffalo, NY,  M.L.S. in Library and Information Science

SUNY College atBuffalo, NY,  B.A. in Art History

Research and Interests:

Digital badges for STEM learning in secondary contexts, design thinking and Makerspaces, characteristics of 21st-century learning, innovation, creativity and cultural responsive education, digital badges for teacher professional development. 

Contact Information:

Angela Elkordy
National College of Education
National Louis University 
Wheeling, IL 60090
aelkordy@nl.edu
Ph: (847) 947-5339

Twitter: @elkorda

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/angela-elkordy/8/5b2/837