Honors

University of Alabama

2018 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Teaching/Research Award 8044-WA, Namibia
2018 McCrory Faculty Excellence Award for Service, College of Education, University of Alabama
2018 Media, Culture and Learning SIG Top Paper Session Presentation (w/ J.Mills, Exploring digital natives academic use of technology). 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), NYC.
2017 Fulbright Specialist Roster, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State
2017 James W. Brown Publication Award, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), for Benson, A.D., Joseph, R. & Moore, J.L. (Eds.). (2017). Culture, learning and technology: Research and practice. New York: Routledge.
2017 Dissertation Advisor, Excellence in Dissertation Research Award (Student: Kim Roberts), College of Education, The University of Alabama
2016 Certificate of Recognition, Excellence in Academic Advising, Office for Academic Affairs and Academic Advisors Association, The University of Alabama
2016 Certificate of Recognition, Development and Pilot Implementation of Learning in Action Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), The University of Alabama
2013 Annual Achievement Award (for Outstanding Work in Culture, Learning and Technology), Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
2012 Dissertation Advisor, Dissertation of the Year (Student: Jeremy Searson), Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA)
2012 Finalist, Last Lecture Series Presenter, Graduate School, The University of Alabama
2007 Faculty Fellow, McNair Scholars Program, The University of Alabama

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2006 Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, School of Education, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2005 Spitze/Mather Faculty Excellence Award, College of Education
2003/5 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, UIUC Center for Teaching Excellence

University of Georgia

Most Outstanding Doctoral Student, Department of Instructional Technology, 2001