Tonia A. Dousay, Ph.D.

• 2020 Alumni Award for Excellence Inspirational Mentor, University of Idaho
• 2018 Culture, Learning and Technology Division Outstanding Publication Award for a Journal Article, Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT), Kansas City, MO
• 2016 Gold Paper Award, Educational Technology World Conference (ETWC), Bali, Indonesia
• 2016 Award for Advocacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

Tonia Dousay is a K-20 educator and researcher, encompassing K-12, higher education, and continuing education. She is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and serves as Associate Dean of Assessment & Accreditation for the University of Idaho College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. As a Google Certified Innovator with 20 years of distance learning design and education project management experience, she designs and studies a variety of learning environments and activities with emergent and established technologies, focusing on: Instructional and Multimedia Design; Creativity & Collaboration; Learner Engagement; Distance Learning. Her goal is to help others better design learning to empower learners of all ages, foster interdisciplinary understanding, and help learners take control of their own learning experiences.

• Technology Integration/Emerging Technologies
• Instructional and Multimedia Design
• Creativity & Collaboration
• Situational Interest

• Rader, E., Love, R., Reano, D., Dousay, T. A., & Wingerter, N. (2021). Pandemic Minecrafting: An analysis of the perceptions of and lessons learned from a gamified virtual geology field camp. Geoscience Communication, 4. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2021-11
• Dousay, T. A., Wetcho, S., Muljana, P. S., Arslan, O., Digges Elliot, H., Peacock, R., & Carr-Chellman, A. A. (2021). Hybrid or virtual conferencing: That is the question. TechTrends, 65(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00613-9
• Dousay, T. A., & Hall, C. S. (2021). Support technologies. In L. Cifuentes (Ed.), A guide to administering distance learning (pp. 326–352). Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004471382_014
• Dousay, T. A. (2021). Right place, right time. In J. H. Curry & S. R. Jackson (Eds.), The greatest lecture I was never taught. Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467088
• Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Veletsianos, G., Gosse, C., Lowenthal, P., Dousay, T., & Hall, N. C. (2021). Support for scholars coping with online harassment: An ecological framework. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1883086
• Gosse, C., Veletsianos, G., Hodson, J., Houlden, S., Dousay, T. A., Lowenthal, P. R., & Hall, N. (2021). The hidden costs of connectivity: nature and effects of scholars’ online harassment. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(3), 264–280. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1878218
• Janak, E., & Dousay, T. (2020). Ben Henneke and college by radio: Expanding midcentury educational opportunity at the University of Tulsa. Journal of American Culture, 43(4), 312–323. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13204
• Carpenter, J. P., Rosenberg, J. M., Dousay, T. A., Romero-Hall, E., Trust, T., Kessler, A., Phillips, M., Morrison, S. A., Fischer, C., & Krutka, D. G. (2020). What should teacher educators know about technology? Perspectives and self-assessments. Teaching and Teacher Education, 95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2020.103124
• Dousay, T. A. (2018). Designing for creativity in interdisciplinary learning experiences. In K. A. Persichitte, A. Suparman, & J. M. Spector (Eds.), Educational technology to improve quality and access on a global scale (pp. 43–56). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66227-5_5