Anne Arundel Community College Professor Dolittle Awarded Top Online Educator

Joan B. Dolittle (shown on right), professor of psychology at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC), was named a top national and state online educator in separate award ceremonies recently.  Doolittle received an e-Learning Faculty Award from the national Instructional Technology Council and the Higher Learning Distance Educator of the Year award from the Maryland Distance Learning Association (MDLA).  Both cited her ability to design courses that meet national distance learning and online learning criteria as well as encourage students to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates in the online courses.  An instructor at AACC since 1970, Doolittle’s department chairs and fellow instructors say her creativity is a model for others, using different tools to appeal to auditory, visual and tactile styles of learning.  In one course, she developed crossword puzzles, invented a baseball game for personality disorders, created memory tasks and challenged students to redesign the brain.

Additionally, the college received top state awards for a workforce development program and the design of an online course, solidifying the industry’s high regard for AACC’s online programs. AACC is a fully accredited, public, two-year institution located in Anne Arundel County.