James Yocom
Director of Instructional Media Services and IT Communications
Jim Yocom serves as Director of Instructional Media Services for the IU South Bend campus. In this role, Yocom directs and administers the operations of Media Services, Classroom Technology Services, and South Bend UITS Communications, and serves as an advocate for the development and use of instructional technology and media in teaching and research. For five of his more than fifteen years as Director of IMS, Yocom worked directly with the Library and Academic Affairs, supporting and advancing learning technology and instructional media in the University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Distance Learning program.
Publications
- Bishop, Marianne and Yocom, James Video Projects: Integrating Project-Based Learning, Universal Design for Learning, and Bloom’s Taxonomy. Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media. Information Science Reference, 204-221, 2013
Presentations
- Designing and Evaluating Online Multimedia, Gaming and Simulation Projects. Online Learning Consortium Conference, Orlando, Florida. October 2015
- Increasing student engagement with student-created videos. 30th Annual Conference on Distance Learning Teaching & Learning, Madison, Wisconsin. August, 2014
- Design and Assessment of Online Multimedia Coursework. 27th Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. August, 2011
- Producing Instructional Video for Mobile Playback Devices. Consortium of College and University Media Centers, Greensboro, North Carolina. October 2009
- iPods in the Teaching Laboratory. 20th Biennial The 237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. March, 2009
- Making movies @ IU South Bend. American Library Association, Washington, DC. June, 2007