Purdue University Online Excellence Award Honors PVM’s Courtney Waxman

June 7, 2024

Purdue University Online conducts an awards program to recognize professional accomplishment and promote creative and effective approaches to learning delivered via digital education media. One of the 2024 award recipients is Courtney Waxman, MS, CVT, RVT, VTS (ECC), Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning Program instructional technologist. Courtney, along with Leah Miller, Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) senior instructional designer, received the Excellence in Online Course Design and Delivery (Degrees) award for VM 240 – Nutrition for Veterinary Technicians.

The Excellence in Online Course Design and Delivery (Degrees/Credentials) awards honor faculty and staff members who demonstrate course development and pedagogical excellence as course instructors. Announced at the conclusion of the spring semester, the awards recognize professional accomplishment and promote creative and effective approaches to learning delivered online. Each award includes a cash prize shared amongst the recipients.

The award selection committee noted how the redesign of VM 240 – Nutrition for Veterinary Technicians earned high praise from students who took the course. The students shared that they appreciated the mixed variety of delivery methods, step-by-step videos with clear examples, gamified exam reviews to help them prepare for exams, and instructor interactions that supported their learning.

Courtney joined the Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning program team in 2018. She earned her AAS in Veterinary Technology from Mesa Community College, BAS degree in Operations Management from Arizona State University, and MS degree in Higher Education from Purdue University Global. Courtney has more than 20 years of clinical veterinary nursing experience and became a Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) in 2017. In 2019, she was chosen as the New Educator of the Year by the Association of Veterinary Technician Educators (AVTE), and in 2021, she received Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s Elanco Teaching Excellence in Veterinary Nursing Award

Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu

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