Nicole Schmidt

Assistant Director of Research, Innovation, and Quality Assurance

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Nicole oversees the campus-wide online and blended course evaluation initiative and the piloting of new instructional technologies at UArizona. She is also passionate about supporting teaching and learning research and applying the latest findings to guide instructional practices which bolster student success in online and blended learning environments. Nicole earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2020. For her dissertation research, she investigated teacher cognition and technology integration in second-language writing contexts. Before pivoting to the field of instructional design, Nicole taught graduate and undergraduate composition and English as a Second/Foreign Language in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Schmidt, N. (2023). Unpacking second language writing teacher knowledge through corpus-based pedagogy training. ReCALL, 35(1), 40-57.

Mitchum, C., Schmidt, N., Skorupski, K., & Rodrigo, R. (2022). Knowing Who’s on Your Team: Pedagogical Expertise and the Impact on Software Design. Currents in Teaching & Learning, 13(2).

Schmidt, N. (2019). Digital Multimodal Composition and Second Language Teacher Knowledge. TESL Canada Journal, 36(3), 1-30.

Schmidt, N., & Wehmeyer, H. (2016). Self-assessment training in the ESL classroom: a crucial step in developing learner autonomy. Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 23, 74-97.

Haines, K., Schmidt, N., Jansma, P., & Lowie, W. (2013). EMBEDding the CEFR in academic writing assessment: A case study in training and standardization. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2(1), 77-91.

Other Publications

Schmidt, N., Schanke, C., Herron J., & Gunder, A. (2024) Considerations for Quality Online
Course Design: A Guide to Using Open Access Rubrics. Online Learning Consortium.

[textbook] van Loon, Janene, Arnoud Thuss, Nicole Schmidt, and Kevin Haines. (2018)
Academic Writing in English: A Process Based Approach. Coutinho Publications, (2nd edition).

[blog post] Schmidt, N. (2017) Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning: The Quest for Authenticity. Retrieved from http://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/3/humanizing-online-teaching-and-learning-the-quest-for-authenticity