Patricia Hogan


Patricia Irene Hogan is a Professor of Management of Health & Fitness in the School of Health and Human Performance at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, USA. Dr. Hogan publishes and presents in the areas of developing Professional Intellect in university students, Inquiry-Based and Problem-Based Learning, professional ethics, prosumerism, Social Media applications in education mission-central learning, and in Social Media for Sport and Fitness Business. Her educational scholarly interests involve experimenting with promoting a connectivist approach to enhance learning for relevant literacies and skill-sets in her classes and to teaching for and abductive reasoning and thinking. She also engages Project Based Learning in her classes. In the 2014-15 academic year she was on sabbatical working with SBRnet data and her colleague, James Santomier, to publish and present on the use of social media and mobile media in sport/fitness.

Life

Prior to becoming a Professor at Northern Michigan University, Hogan was an Assistant Professor and Assistant Research Scientist at New York University in New York City, New York. She was also the Health and Fitness Director for the National Board of the YWCA of the USA in New York from 1983-85. In addition, she has done international, national and regional consulting for many agencies. Professor Hogan received graduate degrees from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and bachelor's degrees from the University of Windsor in Canada. She is originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Awards

Hogan follows a constructivist educational philosophy and has won awards for her educational use of wikis to develop education mission-central outcomes in health/fitness business management students. She is involved in and has awards for co-creating classes and course texts with her students using the for course construction, student work, and outcomes assessment. She has also won NMU's Excellence in Teaching Award and excellence in advising awards. she speaks on the importance of university mission-central education. Also, she has been awarded four Innovation in Teaching Awards from NMU as well as the 2013 Outstanding Michigan College/University Teacher of the Year Award from the Michigan Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Peer-reviewed published work