Curriculum Vitae
Nargas Oskui
 

Office Tel: 541-346-1688

 

Email: not At uoregon edu

 

EDUCATION

 


Doctorate of Education (D.Ed.) – University of Oregon - Educational Leadership - Learning, Assessment and System Performance - emphasis in Educational Technology (ABD Spring 2010)

 

M.S. – University of Oregon – Educational Leadership - Policy Management and Organization - emphasis in Educational Technology (Class of 2005) 

Thesis Topic – Educational Technology in Higher Education

 

B.S. – University of Oregon – Sociology

Minor: Computer Information Technology (Class of 2003)

 

EMPLOYMENT

 


Manager - University of Oregon Libraries – Center for Media and Educational Technologies (CMET) Consulting – name change Spring 2009 from Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support – organizational name change effective May 1, 2008 from Center for Educational Technologies

(October 31st 2007- Present)

  • Continues duties as listed in previous position
  • Blackboard Administrator
  • Clicker implementation / support
  • Provides pedagogical advice to faculty regarding their instructional technology needs and objectives
  • Educates member of the UO community on educational technologies
  • Develops training programs and materials
  • Budget authority: approves student staffing expenditures along with establishing budget and recommending additional expenditures.
  • Designs, implements and assesses new consulting services.
  • Teaches workshops and credit courses as appropriate
  • Reviews, analyzes and evaluated current UO technology training services.
  • Keeps up to date on educational literature and emerging educational technologies; assesses their possible applicability at the UO
  • Plans and assists in deployment of new high-leverage technologies
  • Represents the UO at on-campus and off-campus meetings and conferences
  • Technical support with UMI ETD Administrator for the Graduate School – LaTeX and Word format troubleshooting

 (Promotion effective September 15, 2008)

  • Provides educational technology expertise and leadership in organizational development and training (ODT) department within Human Resources (HR) domain.
  • Assists director of ODT in conceptualizing use of e-learning, instructional design and professional development management system consultation.
  • Collaborates with and provides services for ODT on e-learning, instructional technology planning, implementation, coaching, consulting and provide expertise in HR-sponsored organization development and training initiatives.
  • Involved with RFP process
  • Content Analysis with a Grounded Theory approach
  • Leads LMS/LCMS selection, evaluation & implementation
  • Creates learning tracks for LMS
  • Assists in marketing LMS and learning tracks
  • Trains all UO faculty/staff on optimal use of e-learning
  • Coordinates electronic evaluation of UO training and professional development programs
  • Oversees the registration and tracking function of LMS

·         Researches tools to provide a comprehensive calendar of all training at the UO for ease in advertising and registration

  • Automates a quarterly reporting function on training and professional activities at the UO for presentation to the director
  • Automates and integrates functions related to training, professional and organizational development services
  • Partners with other ODT support staff to integrate efforts and provide seamless support to customers and ODT office operations.
  • Revamps/maintains/updates ODT and New Employee Orientation websites.

 

Technology Coordinator & Consultant – University of Oregon Libraries - Center for Educational Technologies (August 2005 - October 30th 2007 / PROMOTED)

  • Provides a larger support base for Educational Technology
  • Works closely with library staff and IT specialists and directors across campus in order to collaborate with different departments by doing outreach to faculty
  • Hires, trains, evaluates, monitors and supervises the student consultants
  • Provides Blackboard end-user support & administration
  • Manages, schedules and maintains lab software and hardware setup
  • Gives workshops/in-office consultations on various technologies across campus for professional development
  • Web Publishing (updates/maintains center’s website)

 

Computing Lab Supervisor & Coordinator- University of Oregon Libraries - Information Technology Centers (August 2005 – 2006)

 

Computing Lab Lead Student Help Desk Assistant - University of Oregon Libraries – Information Technology Centers (2000-2005)

 

PROJECTS / initiatives

 

Human Resources - New Employee Orientation / Organizational Development and Training Website Development Team (Summer 2008- Spring 2010)

  • Human Resources - Organization Development and Training department.
  • Create sites using Drupal
  • Banner collage creation with metaphorical message
  • Suggestions for making website interactive to meet multiple learning style needs while assuring ADA compliance.
  • Provide educational technology perspective.
  • Work with Streaming Media specialist to make training videos available

 

Campus-wide Technology Workshops Calendar (Winter 2008 – Spring 2010)

·         Collaborate with Human Resources in evaluating various online learning modules / enterprise level Learning Management System for professional development in software training and soft skills

·         Create Google Calendar of ongoing technology workshops and training

·         Involve stakeholders in the process of a centralized effort in maintaining this union calendar of faculty/staff development events

·         promote information fluency among students, faculty and staff

·         Integrate technology instruction for UO students, faculty, and staff more fully into the curriculum and administrative programs

·         Offer tailored "just in time" technology training

 

Planning Initiative 2008: Improve Faculty Services Website (Spring 2007-Summer 2008)

  • Contributed to faculty productivity by improving the faculty services website.
  • Directed at faculty-oriented services by reflecting the entire library, including all types of technology support, educational media, scholarly communication, etc.

 

Peer Coaching in Computing Labs Pilot Project (2005-2009)

  • Used MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) for Coaching
  • Trained students on the technology and approaches to customer service
  • Collaborate with Library Administration, Library Council and Student Supervisors on details about Library-wide Customer Service Training
  • Lead facilitator for the student training program to provide knowledge and skills that all student assistants need to know in the customer service domain. (Summer 2008- Fall 2009)

 

 

RESEARCH

 


Dissertation Research - IT Infrastructure Program Evaluation (Winter 2008 - Present)

·         My program evaluation explores the specific aspects of the existing instructional technology services functioning within the College of Education and the College of Arts and Allied Administration in comparison to the academic coming logic model I acquired, a proposed 3 way comparison (discrepancy analysis) among the following: an ideal (abstract/robust) model of a campus information technology facility, a minimum model (what is a necessary/baseline for IT to function)

 

Dissertation Research - Instructional Technology in Iran (Fall 2006 – 2008)

·         located research and material on educational technology usage in K-16

·         Study of evaluating Instructional Technology Programs at Universities in Iran

·         Visited Sharif University of Technology and received a presentation on various projects

 

Digital Sketching Research Project for architecture professor

(Fall 2006 – Spring 2008)

·         Creating online learning objects on sketching process

·         Perform construct mapping in order to apply the techniques to data showing progress in sketching performance.

·         Contributing in refining research procedures and instruments (alternative digital formats for presenting model design sketches)

·         Contributing to interpreting and documenting of m-IRT (model Item Response Theory) analysis.

·         Conducting focus groups to receive feedback on learning modules

·         Collecting data, digital sketches using io pen

·         Involved Instructional Design components

·         Meet with the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Technology in Architectural Practice group for presentation and discussion

·         Collaborating with professionals from Georgia Institute of Technology

·         Recommending textbooks for instruction

 

presentationS

 


(OATS) Oregon Academic Technology Society – Information Technology Reading Group – Portland, OR. (May 17, 2011)

 

Unique Approaches to Creating Thematic Images to Enhance a Professional Development site - Online Northwest – Corvallis, OR.  (February 5, 2010)

 

Concept Mapping – Scholarship of Teaching class – University of Oregon (January 13 & 15, 2009)

 

Concept Mapping – Qualitative Research Methods class - University of Oregon (July 7, 2008)

 

Technology and Assessment Group at UC Berkeley – presented on Introduction to Clickers - videoconference from University of Oregon. (May 13, 2008)

 

(ACM SIGUCCS CSMS) Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Management Symposium – Presentation on Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders for Today’s Challenge (Peer Coaching in Computing Labs) - Tucson, AZ. (Spring 2008)

 

(AERA)  American Educational Research Association – Paper presentation on Assessment in E-Learning: Analyzing Architectural Sketching with a Digital Pen - New York City, NY. (Spring 2008)

 

WestEd (CAESL) Center for Assessment and Evaluation in Student Learning - Quality Assessment in Real Classrooms – San Jose, CA. (Spring 2007)

  • eLearning with Digital Pens for Digital Sketching
  • Learning Objects
  • Construct Mapping

 

Basic IT Essential Skills for Applications in Teaching Workshop - University of Oregon – Teaching Effectiveness Program, Academic Learning Services (Summer 2005 - 07)

  • Blackboard & Cross-Platform Considerations
  • Introduction and orientation to Center for Educational Technology services

 

(FLIS) Foreign Language and International Studies day - University of Oregon (Spring 2004 - present)

  • A presentation of Persian language, music, culture, poetry, art, architecture…

 

Low Threshold Applications (LTA) - University of Oregon – Teaching Effectiveness Program, Academic Learning Services (Winter 2007)

  • Concept Mapping Applications  - Inspiration
  • Assisted with planning the 3 sequences for the LTA sessions

 

Course Redesign for Hybrid Learning - University of Oregon (Summer 2006)

  • A display of various software to create learning objects

 

Leadership in Technology – University of Oregon (Winter 2005)

  • Presented on Collaboration, Technology & Leadership for a Group Process course in the College of Education.
  • Incorporated the use of Blackboard as a course management tool.

 

Kish English Institute – Tehran, Iran (Summer 2003)

·         Presented my observations to the administrators and faculty

·         I attended two different English classes, where I took notes on comparisons/contrasts of the instructors’ teaching methods, classroom setting, materials and curriculum.

 

publications

 


Scalise, K., Cheng, N. Y., & Oskui, N. (2009). Rasch Family Models in e-Learning: Analyzing Architectural Sketching with a Digital Pen. Journal of Applied Measurement, 10(3), pp. 281-295.

Scalise, K., Cheng, N. Y., & Oskui, N. (2008). Rasch Family Models in e-Learning: Analyzing Architectural Sketching with a Digital Pen. Advances in Rasch Measurement, 2(1).

Oskui, N., Scalise, K., & Cheng, N. Y. (2008). Assessment in E-Learning: Analyzing Architectural Sketching With a Digital Pen. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

 

conference attendance

 


Bb World 2012 -  New Orleans, LA. (Summer 2012)

 

Bb World 2011 - Las Vegas, NV. (Summer 2011)

 

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference – Interaction, Ideas, Inspiration - Orlando, FL. (Fall 2008)

 

Computational Thinking Throughout the Curriculum Symposium – University of Oregon (Spring 2008)

 

(OSBA) Oregon School Boards Association – Dream Catching – Portland, OR. (Fall 2007)

 

(AECT) Association for Educational Communications and Technology - Learning Within the Kaleidoscope: A Culture of Technology – Anaheim, CA. (Fall 2007)

 

Northwest e-Learning Community Conference – Pacific Northwest/Washington Blackboard Users Group - University of Oregon (Fall 2007)

 

Computers in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Symposium – University of Oregon (Spring 2007)

 

(AERA) American Educational Research Association – The World of Educational Quality – Chicago, IL. (Spring 2007)

 

(OCLC) Online Computer Library Center Western – Practical Emerging Technologies for Libraries Workshop – Eugene, OR. (Summer 2006)

 

(ACM SIGUCCS CSMS) Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Computer Services Management Symposium – San Diego, CA. (Spring 2006)

 

Online Northwest - The Use of Technology within Libraries – Corvallis, OR. (Winter 2006 - present)

 

Blackboard Day – The Blackboard Oregon State Collaborative Workshop – Clackamas, OR. (Fall 2005)

 

(COSA) Confederation of Oregon School Administrators - Gates Symposium Leadership in Technology - Eugene, OR. (Spring 2005)

 

Committee membership / involvement

 


(OATS) Oregon Academic Technology Society (Spring 2011 - Present)

 

UO Sony Scholars Faculty Selection Committee (Summer 2011 - Present)

 

UO Libraries Grants & Awards Committee (Fall 2011- Present)

 

UOBlogs (Edublogs) – formerly UfoliO – WordPress User Group (Spring 2010 – Present)

 

Clickers Group (Spring 2007 – Present) Clicker coordinator (2011-present)

 

Blackboard Advisory Committee (2005 - Present)

 

Library Council (Fall 2010 – 2012)

 

(TAG) Technology and Assessment Group at UC Berkeley - Berkeley Evaluation & Assessment Research Center (2007-2008)

 

Blackboard Connections (2005 - 2008)

 

Faculty Instructional Technology Training Group (2005 - 2010)

 

Podcasting Group (2006 - 2007)

 

E-Portfolio’s Group (2006 - 2010)

 

Excel Mentor Group Facilitator - Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee (2006 – 2010) 

 

Web Mechanics Mentoring Group (2006 - 2010)

 

Campus Computing Training and Professional Development Task Force

(2006 - 2009)

 

Professional membership

 


Blackboard Idea Exchange (Summer 2011 - Present)

 

Blackboard Bug Squad (Spring 2011 - Present)

 

EDUCAUSE – Transforming Education through Information Technologies (2007 - Present)

 

(ELI) EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2007- Present)

 

(AECT) The Association for Educational Communications & Technology

Divisions – Design and Development, International, Management, Training and Performance and Systemic Change (2007-2008)

 

(ICEM) International Council for Educational Media (2007-2008)

 

University of Oregon Library Staff Association (2005 - Present)

 

(AERA) American Educational Research Association (2007- Present)

 

(SIG-IT) Special Interest Group Instructional Technology (2007- Present)

 

(SIG-TACTL) Special Interest Group Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (2007- Present)

 

(ACM) Association for Computing Machinery (2006 -present)

 

(SIGUCCS) Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (2006 - Present)

 

SEIU 503 – Local Workers Union (2005 – October 2007)

 

tEACHING

 

CIS 199 - Managing Social Media for Student Athletes (Summer 2012)

As an introduction to managing social media we took a "personal branding" angle - managing social media for yourself, making good choices, creating a personal social media plan, policies, etc. There were guest speakers from different UO departments sharing their perspectives of social media. Examples include the UO Libraries, UO Student Athletes and Warsaw Sports Marketing Center among others.

 

Language Teacher - University of Oregon Yamada Language Center (2004 – 2006)

  • Tutored/Taught Farsi for the Less Commonly Taught Languages Self Study Program
  • Integrated interactive language lessons via technology

 

Graduate Teaching Fellow - Center for Educational Technologies & Yamada Language Center (Winter & Spring 2005)

  • Co-taught Computer Assisted Language Learning course
  • Trained the tutors at the Yamada Language Center on incorporating technology into their courses

 

CERTIFICATION & AWARDS

 

Library Faculty Professional and Organizational Development Fund Award to attend Bb World 2011 - (Spring 2011)

 

Travel Grant to present at AERA 2008 - Educational Leadership, College of Education, University of Oregon (Winter 2008)

 

Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of valuable contributions to the Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee Mentor Program – University of Oregon - Office of the Vice- President for Administration and Human Resources (2007-2008)

 

Appreciation of service as a Mentor Facilitator for the Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee – University of Oregon - Office of the Vice President for Administration and Human Resources (2005-2006)

 

Supervision Training Certification for Supervisors – University of Oregon - Human Resources (Fall 2005 & Winter 2006)

 

Employee of Year Award - University of Oregon - Career Center (Spring 2003)

 

Technical Skills

 

Desktop Publishing

Trouble Shooting between Windows and Apple operating systems

Multimedia, Document processing, graphics design layout

Communication / Presentation Tools

Personal Response Systems (Clickers) – TurningPoint, iClicker

Course Management Systems (Blackboard) Administration and User-End Support

Digital Video/Audio production: Sony Vegas, QuickTime Pro, Audacity, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Windows Movie Maker

Email clients: Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook, Mac Mail

HTML, JavaScript, C++, XHTML, UNIX, XML, CSS, SQL, PHP

Keyboarding rate of 60 wpm

Software: Adobe Suite, Macromedia Suite, Microsoft Office, iLife Suite, OpenOffice, Keynote, iWorks…

Statistical Applications: SAS, SPSS, Excel, Excel Data Analysis ToolPak, DataMiner XL Miner

Survey software- Qualtrics

Geographic Information Systems

Content Management System: Sitellite, Drupal, WordPress MU

Concept Mapping Software: Inspiration, MindMap, Visio, CMap

Test Management System: Respondus

Web 2.0 Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks, Google Documents/Apps….

Learning object creation software: SoftChalk LessonBuilder, Hot Potatoes

Online tutorial creation software: Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, SnapZ Pro, ScreenFlow

Online training programs – CustomGuide, Lynda.com, ElementK, Skillsoft/Skillport

Learning Management Systems

Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite

Web Conferencing platforms: Wimba, Elluminate, Adobe Connect, Yugma, Skype

RT Trouble Ticketing

 

languages

 

Farsi (Persian) - Bilingual Proficiency

 

French – Elementary Proficiency

 

Arabic - Elementary Proficiency

 

German - Elementary Proficiency

 

profeSsional / educational interests

 

Adaptive Testing, Administration, Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Coaching, Computerized Testing, Computers and Learning, Cognitive Processes/Development, Comparative Education, Cooperative Learning, Cross-cultural studies, Consulting, Differentiated Instruction, Information Systems, Information Processing, Instructional Design/Development, Instructional/Educational Technology, IT infrastructure, International Educational Studies, Language Comprehension/Development, Language Processes, Leadership, Learning Environments, Learning Processes/Strategies, Management, Media, Mentoring, Planning, Problem Solving, Professional Development, Religion, Sociology, Social Context, Staff/Faculty Development, Supervision, Technology, Training/Supervision, Tutoring, Women’s Issues…

http://uoregon.academia.edu/NargasOskui

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nargas-oskui/0/20a/a38

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extracurRicular activities

 

Guest Speaker for REL160 World Religions course – Lane Community College (March 11, 2013)

            A discussion about Islam and Middle-Eastern political culture

 

Guest Speaker on Islamic Perspective on Death Penalty for Prisons, Compassion and Peace Discussion– Knight Law Center (February, 28, 2013)

          “Interreligious Perspectives on the Death Penalty” - UNESCO Chair for Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace.

 

Assisted in putting together a flow chart, presentation and training manual for the Afghan Women's Breast Health Project - California Breast Cancer Research Foundation grant Project for Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women in Northern California  (September 25, 2011)

 

Introduction to Islam lecture series brainstorming session – Lane Community College (April 25, 2011)

 

Panel Speaker for Adult Education Program – 1st United Methodist Church – Eugene, OR (January 23, 2011)

            Being a Woman and Being Muslim

 

Guest Speaker for Non-Violence in Religion course – Lane Community College (May 10, 2010)

            A discussion about Islam and Middle-Eastern political culture

 

Co-presenter on Middle Eastern Muslim Families for Master's students in the Early Intervention Program, College of Education – University of Oregon (February 11, 2010)

Panel speaker on Retaining Multi-cultural Staff and Faculty: A critical aspect of UO units' Diversity Strategic Action Plans - Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity – University of Oregon (May 21, 2009)

 

Panel Presenter on Global Views What is Faith? The impact of religion on students' lives – University of Oregon (February 19, 2009)

Presenter on behalf of Islam for monthly Interfaith Prayer Service at First Christian Church – Eugene, OR. (2008-2010)

           

Guest Speaker for a Career panel - Oregon Young Scholars Program – Office of Professional Outreach and Development – School of Architecture and Allied Arts – University of Oregon (August 4, 2008)

 

Guest Speaker on panel for Diversity Committee at the Department of Human Services – Eugene, OR. (July 17, 2008)

            Talk on Islam and Muslims

 

Volunteer - Avant Assessment - Eugene. OR (Spring & Summer 2008)

·         Assisted in recruiting Target Language Experts in (Arabic, Farsi and Dari) to assist with test development.

·         Provided Farsi content

 

Guest Speaker for Adult Education Program at Central Presbyterian Church – Eugene, OR. (May 18, 2008)

Talk on Islam and Iran

 

Designed an informational pamphlet for the California Breast Cancer Research Foundation grant Project for Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women in Northern California. (March 9, 2008)

 

Guest Speaker at Thurston High School – Springfield, OR. (Fall-Spring 2008 - Present) A presentation on Islam for Sociology & Government class

 

Guest Speaker for Women in Asia course – University of Oregon (July 5, 2007)

            A presentation on Women’s Issues in Iran

 

Guest Speaker at Thurston High School – Springfield, OR. (May 29, 2007)

  • A presentation on Persian language, music, culture, poetry, architecture…

 

Volunteer for the International Resource Center at the University of Oregon

  • Recited Persian poetry for World Poetry Night event (2005-2006)
  • Created flyers for the Muslim Student Association events (2000-2005)

 

Volunteer at the registration table for the Muslim Student Association Persian Speaking Group convention – Los Angeles, CA. (Winter 2006)

 

Guest Speaker and moderator for the post-film discussion on Brothers and Others – Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR. (October 15, 2006)

 

Secretary for Oak Hill School and Lane Community College Math Instructor – Eugene, OR. (2004 - present)