Russell G. Carpenter

Russell G. Carpenter, Ph.D. is the founding Director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity and Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY. The Noel Studio at EKU is a nationally unique mission and vision that emphasizes collaborative and creative approaches to developing student communication through integrating written, oral (and aural), electronic, and visual modes and media. This new space will serve as the center for innovative community literacy initiatives. Russell received a Ph.D. in Texts & Technology at the University of Central Florida where he also earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English. While at UCF, Carpenter contributed to Writers on the Move, a community literacy project that established pilot writing centers at area schools with Terry Thaxton. Russell received the 2010 Von Till award from the National Communication Association’s Communication Center division for research, scholarship, and innovation in communication centers.

Publications

Faculty Development in Digital Spaces: Designing and Implementing Innovative Modular Online Programming
Faculty Development in Digital Spaces: Designing and Implementing Innovative Modular Online Programming
Russell G. Carpenter. © 2019. 20 pages.
The 21st-century faculty member is faced with numerous challenging tasks. Teaching must be current and highly engaging. To ensure the highest quality faculty development focused...
A Challenge for the Flipped Classroom: Addressing Spatial Divides
A Challenge for the Flipped Classroom: Addressing Spatial Divides
Russell G. Carpenter, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Rachel Winter, Adam Bunnell. © 2017. 18 pages.
Many institutions across the United States and internationally have adopted the flipped classroom pedagogical model for its potential to enhance learning and retention by...
A Challenge for the Flipped Classroom: Addressing Spatial Divides
A Challenge for the Flipped Classroom: Addressing Spatial Divides
Russell G. Carpenter, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Rachel Winter, Adam Bunnell. © 2015. 18 pages.
Many institutions across the United States and internationally have adopted the flipped classroom pedagogical model for its potential to enhance learning and retention by...
Invention in Two Parts: Multimodal Communication and Space Design in the Writing Center
Invention in Two Parts: Multimodal Communication and Space Design in the Writing Center
Sohui Lee, Christine Alfano, Russell Carpenter. © 2014. 17 pages.
In writing about new media during the last decade, new media scholars in composition studies have focused on pedagogical challenges of teaching multimodal communication such as...
Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology
Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology
Russell G. Carpenter. © 2013. 377 pages.
Higher education spaces are undergoing radical transformations in an attempt to respond to the needs of 21st-century learners and a renewed interest in collaboration that spans...
Invention in Two Parts: Multimodal Communication and Space Design in the Writing Center
Invention in Two Parts: Multimodal Communication and Space Design in the Writing Center
Sohui Lee, Christine Alfano, Russell G. Carpenter. © 2013. 23 pages.
In writing about new media during the last decade, new media scholars in composition studies have focused on pedagogical challenges of teaching multimodal communication such as...
Studio Pedagogy: A Model for Collaboration, Innovation, and Space Design
Studio Pedagogy: A Model for Collaboration, Innovation, and Space Design
Russell G. Carpenter, Leslie Valley, Trenia Napier, Shawn Apostel. © 2013. 17 pages.
This chapter establishes a studio pedagogy for space design that integrates concepts from communication, collaboration, and innovation in its approach. The model offered is...
Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices
Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices
Melody Bowdon, Russell G. Carpenter. © 2011. 496 pages.
The early boom of Web-based education in the 1990s, both in the United States and abroad (e.g., in Australia and the UK), saw a flurry of publications on the subject of...
Conclusion - Remediating the Community-University Partnership: The Multiliteracy Space as a Model for Collaboration
Conclusion - Remediating the Community-University Partnership: The Multiliteracy Space as a Model for Collaboration
Russell G. Carpenter. © 2011. 15 pages.
The concept of remediation, as outlined by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, offers a lens through which 21st-century partnerships might be analyzed and reinvented....