Authors

Dr. Ashley Segalla is an Instructor of Mathematics at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Business Administration, both from Southeastern Louisiana University. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction: Mathematics Education from Louisiana State University. Ashley has taught 7 years at the high school and college levels.

Dr. Kiel B. Ellis is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Ellis holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems, both from Southern University at New Orleans. She obtained additional graduate-level math courses from Nicholls State University. Dr. Ellis also holds a Doctorate in Adult Education from Capella University. Dr. Ellis has taught math at the high school level and has taught college-level math and business courses for 14 years.

Renae Broussard is an Instructor of Mathematics at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Renae holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Tarleton State University, a Master’s of Art, Teaching, from Louisiana College, and a Master’s of Science, Mathematical Sciences, from McNeese State University. She is an Ed.D. candidate at University of Louisiana, Monroe, in Curriculum and Instruction. Renae has taught 16 years at the middle school, high school, and college levels.

Toni Spahn is a retired Math Instructor from the University of New Orleans.  After her time at UNO, Ms. Spahn taught for 8 years at the University of Holy Cross. She holds a Master of Science in Applied Statistics from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from the University of New Orleans. She has been teaching mathematics for over 35 years at the high school and college levels and is currently teaching at Cabrini High School in New Orleans, which is her alma mater.

Editors/Reviewers/Contributors

Jared Eusea has been teaching at River Parishes Community College since January 2011, where he has been promoted from Instructor to Associate Professor and has been named the Department Chair of the Mathematics Department (starting in Fall 2021). He has taught lecture, online (asynchronous and synchronous), and hybrid (blended) courses for Developmental Mathematics, College Algebra, Introduction to Statistics, Trigonometry, and Calculus. All of his courses are 100% OER content! He has created lecture notes following the OpenStax textbooks for faculty to use and has shared these on the OpenStax OER Commons website. In addition to teaching a full-load each semester since he started at RPCC, Jared has led committees in redesigning the math curriculum and sequence and led discussion for establishing course commonality for all mathematics courses, including course and unit objectives, textbooks, assessment policies, and a standard homework system. Jared has been instrumental in moving forward improvements in online teaching and learning at RPCC by developing Master courses that could be used for all math online courses. He has also been the chair of the committee at RPCC that reviews those courses being offered online at RPCC to check that they are designed following certain criteria consistent to the QM standards and has been involved with faculty on an internal Instructional Design Team to develop a common course template for use towards our college’s goal of fully online programs. Jared is a QM Peer Reviewer and has dealt with the three main LMS platforms: Blackboard, Moodle, and Canvas, so I have seen a lot of various course designs. Lastly, since 2017 I have been a faculty participant and Principal Investigator for two system-wide eLearning Innovation Fund Grants, one Affordable Learning Grant, and a Summer Faculty cohort, where funding was provided to faculty who developed fully online OER courses to share within our system. I also participated as a reviewer in the last course design project that was led by the LOUIS team.