Lesa Lorenzen Huber

Dr. Lesa Lorenzen-Huber teaches courses in the areas of Lifespan Development and Gerontology.  She has twice received the TERA award for teaching excellence, the 2003 Part-Time Faculty recognition award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and a 2003 and 2004 nomination for the Teaching in a Distance Learning Class from the Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education. She was funded by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education to develop a model to incorporate service-learning into her web-based class on aging and by the Office of the Vice President for Instructional Technologies to evaluate the effectiveness of online pedagogies. She was a co-PI on a US Dept. of Education three year grant to develop and implement a full gerontology curriculum online. She is a co-PI on an NSF grant investigating privacy in home-based ubiquitous computing for older adults. Her research interests include gerontology and geriatric education for health care professionals, physical activity and aging, creativity and aging, gerotechnology, and pedagogical strategies in distributed education. Dr. Huber is also a Certified Personal Trainer and has enjoyed leading exercise classes with older adults in Bloomington retirement communities.

 

I am also a member of

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
American Society on Aging
The Gerontological Society of America
American Council on Exercise

education

B.A.  Business Administration  (Fine Arts)         
M.S.  Human Development      (Gerontology) 
Ph.D. Community and Human Resources  (specializing in Gerontology)