Victor A Benassi
Professor of Psychology and Faculty Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of New Hampshire
Victor Benassi is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of New Hampshire. He is an American Psychological Association fellow and served as the 2013 Division 2 President (Society for the Teaching of Psychology, STP). He is principal investigator of two Davis Educational Foundation grants—The Cognition Toolbox: Implementing Cognitive Principles and Assessing Student Learning and Teaching and Learning with Multimedia. With William Buskist, is co‐editor of Effective College and University Teaching: Strategies and Tactics for the New Professoriate (2012). With Catherine Overson and Chris Hakala, he is co-editor of Applying the Science of Learning in Education: Infusing Psychological Science into the Curriculum (STP, 2014). In 2003, he received the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology award. His current research focuses on the application of science of learning principles to teaching and learning in college and university courses.
Catherine Overson, PhD
Director, Teaching and Learning with Multimedia, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of New Hampshire
Catherine Overson is Director of the Teaching and Learning with Multimedia program at UNH’s Center for Excellence in Teaching. Her research focuses on the application of science of learning principles to teaching and learning in college and university courses. Catherine assists faculty from across the university in designing their courses in a manner that incorporates science of learning principles. Catherine is a member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She has published chapters in Your Graduate Training in Psychology: Effective Strategies for Success (2011; Overson & Goldstein) and in Effective University and College Teaching (2012, Stiegler-Balfour & Overson). She is co-editor (with Victor Benassi and Christopher Hakala) of Applying the Science of Learning in Education: Infusing Psychological Science into the Curriculum (2014, STP). Within that book, she authored a chapter (Applying Multimedia Principles to Slideshows for Academic Presentation) based on her multimedia research. Catherine has taught undergraduate courses in psychology and in science of learning. She has taught online graduate courses in UNH’s Academic Program in College Teaching.