Dr. Tamara Powell

Professor of English

tpowel25@kennesaw.edu
Office: EB 069

Dr. Tamara Powell is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University.  Her Phd is from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and her dissertation focused on African American Literature. While at Louisiana Tech University, she wrote grants to establish and support the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication, which she directed from 2005-2009 when she moved to Kennesaw State University to direct the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education until 2022. Dr. Powell is passionate about OERs, having seen firsthand the difference textbook prices can make in the realm of student success. She is co-author, along with Dr. Tiffani Tijerina, of Open Technical Communication, an OER funded by a 2015 ALG grant. Recent publications include “Free is Good: Designing and Implementing a Composition 1 Template Course with Help from an Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) Grant"  in Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice; and “Pivot, Pivot! Kennesaw’s Distance Learning Journey” in From Grassroots to the Highly Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Landscape in Higher Education. When she is not teaching or researching, you can find her in her garden or with her three rescue dogs, Cassie, Trudy, and Oliver.

• Link to CV

• Concentration Area(s)
  • Applied Writing
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 6255 Grant & Proposal Writing
• Select Publications

  Book

  • Open Technical Communication.  Tiffani Tijerina, Tamara Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, and Cassandra Race. A free, open, interactive technical communication textbook funded by a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia. Summer 2016.

   

  Articles and Chapters

  • “Free is Good: Designing and Implementing a Composition 1 Template Course with Help from an Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) Grant.” With Dr. Jeanne Law.  In Tiffani Tijerina (Ed.) Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice. Dahlonega GA: University of North Georgia Press. November 2023.
    
    
  • “Pivot, Pivot! Kennesaw’s Distance Learning Journey” in From Grassroots to the Highly Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Landscape in Higher Education. With Dr. Anissa Vega, Dr. Julie Moore, and Dr. Justin Cochran. Edited by Bettyjo Bouchey, Erin Gratz, and Shelley Kurland. Boston, OLC Press, April 2023.
    
    
  • “Review of Articulate Storyline Software.” CALICO: The Computer Assisted Learning Instruction Consortium. 40.2, pp. 277-88. 2023.
    
    
  • “Software Review: LearningApps.Org.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 54.2 (2021).
    
    
  • “Time-Efficient Techniques for Improving Student and Instructor Success in Online Courses.” With Dr. Julie Newell, Mr. Stephen Bartlett, Dr. Deborah Mixson-Brookshire, Dr. Julie Moore, Mr. Sam Lee, Ms. Tiffani Reardon Tijerina, Ms. Brayden Milam, Ms. Lauren Snider, and Dr. Justin Cochran.  International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 14. 3-4. (2021).
    
    
  • “Student Success Innovations vs. Faculty Workload Concerns: How to Find a Balance for Success.” Conference Proceedings from the Thirteenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eL&mL 2021). With Dr. Julie Newell, Mr. Stephen Bartlett, Mr. Sam Lee, Ms. Brayden Milam, and Ms. Lauren Snider. Online: Thinkmind.