Diane Alberts
Associate Director
Responsibilities
Diane works closely with center leadership to advance the mission and operations of the center. She provides direction, coordination and reporting of the programs, services and resources for teaching, teaching with technology, course design and development, and support of online students. She manages numerous center projects and oversees quality assurance and compliance for online programs.
Education
- M.S.Ed., Instructional Technology, Northern Illinois University, 1998
- B.A., Education, Judson College, 1987
- Project Manager for the Blackboard Ultra Transition Academy
- CITL Staff Ambassador for the Ultra Transition Academy (UTA), 2022-Present
- CITL Staff partner for the Curricular Innovation Grants
- Contributor, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) Blog, Northern Illinois University (2020-present).
- NIU Innovative Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee, Ex-Officio Member, 2024-present
- Supportive and Professional Staff Council, Division 5 Representative (2012 -2015)
- Anthology Idea Exchange member
- Chicagoland Higher Ed Instructional Design learning community member
Rhode, J., & Alberts, D. (2024, November). Leveraging just-in-time data dashboards for data-informed decision making in online learning. Presented at Online Learning Consortium Accelerate 2024, Orlando, FL.
Rhode, J., Miller, T., Richter, S., & Alberts, D. (2023, July). Scalable faculty development to support successful transition of institutional learning management system. Presented at University Professional and Continuing Education Association Distance Teaching and Learning Summit for Online Leadership and Administration + Roundtable, Madison, WI.
Alberts, D., Duvall, C., & Piercy, R. (2019, October). Online course design and development: The online course design academy and design document. Presented at the QM Connect Conference. Grapevine, TX.
Miller, T. & Alberts, D. (2018, July). Finding synergies: Uniting elearning and faculty development for online programs. Presented at the 2018 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference. Madison, WI.
Adulseranee, R., Alberts, D., Taylor, M., Kelly, S., and Tikkun, S. (2016, November). Braille Automated Grading Tool: The Unified English Braille Online Training Project (UEBOT). Presented at the E-Learn 2016 Conference. Washington, D.C.
- Adobe Education Institute Fellow, 2024
- Online Learning Consortium (OLC): Copyright and Fair Use, Part I: The Fundamentals, 2020
- Online Learning Consortium (OLC): Adaptive Learning Fundamentals and Courseware Exploration, 2019
- NIU Outreach Credentialing Programs: Project Management for CAPM and PMP Certification Preparation Course, 2018
- Quality Matters: Peer Course Review Training, 2017
- Quality Matters: Applying the Rubric Workshop, 2016
Applause
The following comments from NIU faculty were shared through NIU Today Applaud a Colleague:
"Diane is an immense asset to innovative online teaching. Her guidance and suggestions while creating and improving online teaching were invaluable. She leads with kindness, patience, and confidence." (August 27, 2024)
"Diane’s work on the Blackboard Ultra Transition Academy has been outstanding. She continues to improve the academy’s design as new features emerge. She loves working with her academy partners. She’s an excellent project manager and the 4th iteration of the academy started flawlessly." (May 25, 2023)
"Having recently developed a course with Diane, I wanted to reach out to note how fabulous it was to work with her. She is considerate, innovative and, most of all, has shown great patience!! It has been a pleasure to work with someone so competent at what they do." (October 25, 2021)
"Diane went above and beyond to bring an online learning module back to life (after Flash was discontinued). Her work on the project was not required but she knew how helpful the outcome would be to faculty, students and to many NIU K-12 educators in our region. Thanks, Diane!" (January 21, 2021)
