Address:
Steven C. Beering Hall of
Liberal Arts and Education
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
BRNG 3128

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Marisa Exter

Associate Professor

Learning Design and Technology,
Curriculum and Instruction

Email:
mexter@purdue.edu

Phone:
(765) 496-3358

Address:
Steven C. Beering Hall of
Liberal Arts and Education
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
BRNG 3128

Links:

LinkedIn
ResearchGate

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Dr. Marisa Exter has 15 years of experience in software design, development, and project management, and BS and MS in Computer Science, along with a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology. Her research interests focus on competencies required by professionals in disciplines such as Instructional Design, Computing, and Engineering/Technology, and working with faculty in those disciplines to incorporate cross-disciplinary skills and dispositions into disciplinary courses. Her service work also focuses on competency-based education. She is currently secretary and board member of the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction. Marisa was a member of the Computing Curriculum 2020 Task Force and its Competencies committee, and co-coordinator of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Summer Research Symposium.

She is currently the Purdue PI for a $3M multi-institutional grant related to developing a model for computing competencies, a follow-up partnership with Tuskegee University focused on integrating cross-disciplinary skills and dispositions into their Computer Science program, and PI for a $1M grant for integrating character education into computing, engineering, and engineering technology programs.

Marisa takes a mentorship approach to teaching and co-leads an active “research family” group with members from a wide range of backgrounds and interest areas. The history of the research family is discussed in Exter, Huang and Ashby (2023).

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Research & Publications

Dr. Exter’s research aims to provide recommendations to improve or enhance university-level design and technology programs (such as Instructional Design, Computer Science and other Computing programs, and Engineering). Therefore, she conducts research on competencies required by professionals in these fields with techniques such as interviews, systematic literature reviews, and surveys (including work funded by NSF grant # 2111097). Her team pilots activities to incorporate the findings into courses and programs. Currently, they are focusing on integrating cross-disciplinary skills and dispositions into Tuskegee University’s Computer Science program (with support from NSF grant # 2417492) and character education into courses in Purdue University, Franciscan University Steubenville, Tuskegee University, and University of New Hampshire (with support from Wake Forest University and Lilly Endowment Inc). In addition, she studies lifelong learning, use of self-and-peer review in team activities, and inter/transdisciplinary education. She has also published on Sense of Community at the program level in online programs and faculty and graduate student support.

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Tagare, D., Janakiraman, S., Exter, M., Duan, S., Sabin, M., & Tavakoli, J. (2023, August). Dispositions that Computing Professionals Value in the Workplace: Systematic Literature Review and Interviews with Professionals. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, Chicago, IL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600118
Duan, S., Exter, M., Tagare, D., Sabin, M., & Janakiraman, S. (2023). Essential competencies for computing managers: Skills and dispositions. Education and Information Technologies, 29(2). 2539-2578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11869-4
Exter, M., Huang, W., & Ashby, I. (2023). Creating a research family: Negotiating mentorship and collaboration. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. 34(3), 141-174. https://celt.miamioh.edu/index.php/JECT/article/view/127
Berry, F. C., Huang, W., & Exter, M. (2023). Improving Accuracy of Self-and-Peer Assessment in Engineering Technology Capstone. IEEE Transactions on Education. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3208219
Exter, M. E., & Ashby, I. (2021). Lifelong learning by design: Heutagogy and Learning Design and Technology professionals. TechTrends. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00657-x
Exter, M., Ashby, I. (2022). Lifelong learning of instructional design and educational technology professionals: A heutagogical approach. Techtrends. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-021-00657-x
Exter, M., Gray, C., Fernandez, T. (2020). Conceptions of design by transdisciplinary educators: disciplinary background and pedagogical engagement. International Journal of Design and Technology Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10798-019-09520-w
Exter, M. E., & Ashby, I. (2019). Using cognitive apprenticeship to enculturate new students into qualitative research. The Qualitative Report, 24(4), 873-886. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol24/iss4/16
Ashby, I, Exter, M. (2019). Designing for interdisciplinarity in higher education: Considerations for instructional designers. Techtrends. DOI: 10.1007/s11528-018-0352-z
Exter, M., Caskurlu, S., & Fernandez, T (2018). Comparing computing professionals’ perceptions of importance of skills and knowledge on-the-job and coverage in undergraduate experiences. Transactions on Computer Education, 18(4). 1-29. DOI: 10.1145/3218430

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Courses Typically Taught

EDCI 52800 — Human Performance Technology
EDCI 56600 — Educational Applications of Multimedia
EDCI 62700 — Special topics: Educational Software Design (which uses an interdisciplinary, team-based approach) – temporary course number
EDCI 62800 — Doctoral Seminar I
EDCI 63800 — Doctoral Seminar II
EDCI 67000 — Learning Design and Technology Integrated Portfolio
EDCI 67700 — Unpacking Research: Writing a Research Proposal