Vikki Costa

TITANium Moodle Coordinator
Office: CP-600-4
Phone: 657-278-2307
Email: vcosta@fullerton.edu

Vikki Costa has over 30 years of experience teaching at the secondary, community college, and university levels as well as extensive expertise in state and national STEM education reform efforts.  Currently, Vikki focuses on teacher and faculty training, research, and project design and implementation of the use of technology to improve teaching and learning.  She consults for NASA and Intel Education, and

is Google Apps Education Qualified (ask her how to use Google Apps to support teaching and learning!).  Vikki is a professional development provider for Fullerton’s University Extended Education International Programs and has traveled throughout the United States and to South Korea, Japan, Egypt, and Portugal to provide professional development in educational technologies to university faculty and K-12 classroom teachers.   She has published in the International Journal of University Teaching and Faculty Development, Journal of Curriculum Studies, and Journal of College Science Teaching, among other journals,and has published a co-authored book, Secrets to Success for Science Teachers.  Her work to design programs that better prepare STEM teacher educators, and thus, STEM teachers, for 21st century digital learning environments was recently showcased at the 2011 CSU Education Summit.