Rate My Professor Charles Dziuban

Charles D. Dziuban is a distinguished Pegasus Professor and serves as Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida, where he has been a faculty member in Education since 1970. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Dziuban founded the university's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and, since 1996, has directed the impact evaluation of UCF's distributed learning initiative, assessing student and faculty outcomes across online, blended, and lecture capture courses. His career also includes serving as Coordinator for the Rosen Foundation Educational Initiative, building on over twenty years of research in developing and replicating educational programs like those in Tangelo Park and Parramore neighborhoods. Dziuban's extensive research focuses on the efficacy of technology-enhanced teaching modalities, including blended learning, adaptive learning systems, learning analytics, student satisfaction, and course evaluation metrics.

Dziuban's scholarly contributions are evidenced by highly cited publications, such as 'Blended learning: the new normal and emerging technologies' (2018), 'Blended learning' (2004), 'Blended learning: A dangerous idea?' (2013), 'Educating the net generation' (2005), and his early statistical work 'When is a correlation matrix appropriate for factor analysis? Some decision rules' (1974). He has co-edited multiple volumes of 'Blended Learning: Research Perspectives.' His impact on the field is recognized through numerous honors, including being UCF's first Pegasus Professor, the Sloan Consortium's Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning (2005), Sloan-C Fellowship (2007), and UCF's inaugural Collective Excellence Award (2017). The university established the Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching in his honor to recognize exemplary online faculty. Dziuban has delivered over 100 presentations worldwide on how modern technologies influence learning outcomes. Recently, his article 'Blended Learning: The New Normal and Emerging Technologies' received a high-impact award from the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.