Dr. Jill Westerlund
Instructor
Contact
- 284 Hardaway Hall
- phone (205) 348-1658
Education
- Ph.D., Instructional Leadership, University of Alabama, 2024
- Ed.S., Teacher Leadership, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013
- M.I.T., Information Technology, American-Intercontinental University, 2008
- M.Ed., Education, Auburn University, 1992
- B.S., Business Education, Auburn University, 1989
Affiliated Areas
Computer Science
Selected Publications
- ORCiD Profile | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-0970
- Westerlund, J., Czajka, S. & Kuemmel, A. (2024). Innovative Strategies for genAI in CS Courses. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2024). March 20-23, 2024, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3633407
- Luo, F., Ijeluola, A., Westerlund, J., Walker, A., Denham, A., Walker, J., & Young, C. (2023). Supporting elementary teachers’ technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge in computational thinking integration. Journal of Science Education and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-023-10045-0
- Garcia, D., Camarena, M., Lin, K., & Westerlund, J. (2023). Equitable Grading Best Practices. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) v. 2. March 15-18, 2022. Toronto, Canada. pp. 1200–1201. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3569602
- Garcia, D, Barnes, T., Lopez, A., Uche, C., & Westerlund, J. (2021). Technology We Can’t Live Without!, Revisited. Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2021). March 13-20, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408877.3432571
- Gray J., Boehm, M., Crawford, C., Baker, J., McCarley, G., Morgan, K., Rouze, K., Westerlund, J., & Yarbrough, C. (2015). A Case Study on Adding Computer Science as a Math Graduation Elective: A Report from the Alabama CS/Mathematics Crosswalk Committee (Abstract Only). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2676723.2691915
Awards and Honors
- 2023 Most Outstanding Ph.D. Student, University of Alabama, College of Education, Educational Leadership, Policy, & Technology Studies – Instructional Technology
- 2017 NCWIT Alabama Teacher of the Year