Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, The University of Alabama
Dr. Rogers served as an English Teaching Fellow at an university in Maputo, Mozambique. She taught English for specific purposes to engineering and science students and supported efforts by the U.S. Embassy.
After college, Dr. Rogers volunteered for the Peace Corps and served in a small village in Honduras. She empowered
women to create small income-generating projects (i.e., clothing, jewelry, crafts). She also taught nutrition education to primary school children.
Dr. Rogers worked in the Innovation in Learning Center at the USA where she supported and trained faculty for online teaching. She also taught ESOL and reading courses as an adjunct instructor.
Dr. Rogers taught bilingual (Spanish/English) Kindergarten and 1st Grade in East Los Angeles. Then she served as a Literacy Coach at an elementary school in Encino. Overall, she worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for six years.
Google Classroom, Drive & Suite
Social Media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, & Pinterest)
Camtasia Studio video production, quizzing, & editing
Respondus 4.0 test migration software
Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor for test integrity
MS Office Suite 2016
Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
Audacity for audio recordings
Zoom, web conferencing tool
Dr. Rogers' research areas of interest are gaming, e-learning, and second language acquisition. Her areas of expertise are listed below:
Rogers, S. (2019). Snapshot – Using the YouTube automated captioning tool for video lectures. In S. L. Gronseth & E. M. Dalton (Eds.), Universal access through inclusive instructional design: International perspectives on UDL (pp. 221-223). New York, NY: Routledge.
Rogers, S. (2019). Magis instructional design model for transformative teaching. Proceedings of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology Annual Convention, 457-465. Bloomington, ID: AECT.
Willis, J., Greenhalgh, S., Nadolny, L., Liu, S., Aldemir, T., Rogers, S., Trevathan, M., Hopper, S. & Oliver, W. (2017). Exploring the rules of the game: Games in the classroom, game-based learning, gamification, and simulations. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 475-480. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Rogers, S. A. (2017). A MMORPG with language learning strategic activities to improve English grammar, listening, reading, and vocabulary (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 10265484)
Rogers, S., & Johnson, B. (2016). Saudi ELLs’ digital gameplay habits and effects on SLA: A case study. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 603-608. Chesapeake, VA: AACE)
Rogers, S., & Van Haneghan, J. (2016). Rubric to evaluate online course syllabi plans for engendering a community of inquiry. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 349-357. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). Program theory logic model of Trace Effects video game. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 1662-1674. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). The efficacy of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) for second language acquisition. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 1675-1682. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). How to make your online course accessible. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 1194-1198. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). Effective online communication in higher education. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 2614-2625. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). The Electronic Village Online, an open-source, international collaboration for professional development. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 986-987. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Rogers, S. (2014). Massive multiplayer online role-playing games for language learning. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 677-684. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Oxford, R., Felkins, G., Hollaway, M., & Rogers, S. (1995). When emotion meets metacognition in language learning histories. International Journal of Educational Research, 23(7), 581-594.
Rogers, S. (1995). The multilingual Mozambican. The Teacher, 1(2). Recife, Brasil: Association Brasil America.
Google Apps for Education (Google Drive, Suite, & Classroom)
Elementary Teacher Education
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Accessibility in distance education
English as a foreign language
Elementary education
Copyright laws for distance education
Instructional design
Learning management system (LMS) administration
Online course design (Moodle, Sakai, Schoology)
Quality assurance reviews
Training
Technical writing
Instructional Design & Development
University of South Alabama
Quality Matters Program
Principles & Practices of Online Teaching
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Association
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire