Carolyn Kelly Ottman To Receive Outstanding Teaching Award Carolyn “Kelly” Ottman, a Lecturer in the School’s Management faculty, has been named the recipient of the 2005 UWM Academic Staff Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Ottman, whose teaching focuses on organizational development, teams, leadership, and career and professional development, consistently receives high student evaluations and is described by her students as “engaging” and “energetic.”
“The School and our students are truly fortunate to have a teacher of Dr. Ottman’s caliber,” said Business School Dean V. Kanti Prasad. “She is a tremendously dedicated and skilled educator.”
In addition to her outstanding teaching skills, Ottman is also an innovator in the classroom, according to Janice S. Miller, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. “Dr. Ottman continually looks to apply new teaching approaches that challenge her students and expose them to different ways of solving problems,” she said.
Ottman has been a campus pioneer in the use of online course delivery and virtual teams. To bring a global component into one of her courses, she has added online threaded discussions with a group of students from INSEAD in France. And she designs classroom assignments that require students to interact with the area business community to learn about real issues through “case study” projects.
Extending her interest in teaching beyond her own classroom, Dr. Ottman conducts research into teaching methodologies and regularly presents her findings to colleagues at the campus, UW System, and national levels. In 2003-04, she was named a Center Scholar for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through UWM’s Center for Instructional and Professional Development. As a Center Scholar, she has conducted research on classroom participation, and is currently examining the role of teams in learning within large lecture class settings.
Ottman will receive her award at a Fall 2005 campus ceremony.
