Patricia Hogan

Patricia Irene Hogan (1953–present) is a Professor of Management of Health & Fitness in the School of Health and Human Performance at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, USA. Dr. Hogan publishes and presents in the areas of developing Professional Intellect in university students, Inquiry-Based and Problem-Based Learning, professional ethics, prosumerism, Social Media applications in education mission-central learning, and in Social Media for Sport and Fitness Business. Her educational scholarly interests involve experimenting with promoting a connectivist approach (Siemens, 2009) to enhance learning for relevant literacies and skill-sets in her classes and to teaching for integrative and abductive or design thinking (Martin on YouTube, 2009). In the 2014-15 academic year she is on sabbatical working with SBRnet data and her colleague, James Santomier, to publish and present on the use of social media and mobile media in sport/fitness.

Life

Prior to becoming a Professor at Northern Michigan University, Hogan was an Assistant Professor and Assistant Research Scientist at New York University (from 1981–83; then again 1985-91) in New York City, New York. She was also the Health and Fitness Director for the National Board of the YWCA of the USA in New York (now YWCA of the USA in Washington, D.C.) from 1983-85. In addition, she has done international, national and regional consulting (around the issues of education and health & fitness) for many agencies.Professor Hogan received graduate degrees (Ph.D. in '81 and M.S. in '78) from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and Bachelor Degrees (Bachelor of Human Kinetics and a Bachelor of Education) from the University of Windsor in Canada. She is originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Awards

Hogan follows a constructivist educational philosophy and has won awards for her educational use of wikis (e.g., https://wiki.acs.nmu.edu/hl368/index.php/Main_Page and https://wiki.acs.nmu.edu/hl440/index.php/Main_Page) to develop education mission-central outcomes (such as self-directed learning, collaboration, critical and creative thinking, communication skills, and professional intellect and career knowledge and skills) in health/fitness business management students. She is involved in and has awards for co-creating classes and course texts with her students using the Wix for course construction (for an example see http://phoga7.wix.com/cohl322createdtextf11#!), student work (for an example see http://phoga7.wix.com/cohl322createdtextf11#!page-3), and outcomes assessment (see http://phoga7.wix.com/pattioutcomeswix). She has also won NMU's Excellence in Teaching Award and excellence in advising awards. Here she speaks on the importance of university mission-central education. Also, she has been awarded four Innovation in Teaching Awards from NMU (http://www.nmu.edu/academicaffairs/node/38) as well as the 2013 Outstanding Michigan College/University Teacher of the Year Award from the Michigan Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Peer-reviewed published work

Other: selected peer-reviewed or invited presentations

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