- Phone:
- (317) 274-6820
- Email:
- glondino@iu.edu
- Department:
- FACET
Gina Londino-Smolar, MS, EdD, is currently the Director of the Forensic and Investigative Sciences program at Indiana University Indianapolis and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, teaching for the Forensic and Investigative Sciences program. Currently, Gina has teaching responsibilities in introductory courses in forensic science (online and face to face), forensic microscopy, and various high impact practices (HIPs) courses for the forensic science program. Gina is heavily involved in distance education, academic integrity initiatives, and professional development opportunities for faculty. Gina has served as the President of the Council of Forensic Science Educators (COFSE) and is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and currently serves as the chair of the General Section.
Throughout her career in forensic science education, Gina has developed multiple introductory courses in the online space, including a non-science major forensic science laboratory course. Her course design and development have been published and shared with the online educational community, including Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and EDUCASE. Gina is a certified peer-reviewer for Quality Matters, has two of the three QM certified courses at IU Indianapolis, and has served as the subject matter expert for many online course reviews. She continually incorporates new learning technology tools into her courses and has been involved with STEM education research using various learning technologies in both online and face to face introductory courses to promote students’ sense of belonging and connectedness in large introductory science courses. Gina has been awarded the Trustee’ Teaching Award at IU Indianapolis, Lecturer Teaching Award for the School of Science, and named Favorite Professor by numerous IUPUI athletes.
With a team of faculty from across IU Indianapolis’s campus, Gina led the initiative to create a culture of academic integrity among students. She created, developed, and advocated two standalone Canvas courses on the importance of academic integrity from the student perspective and the faculty perspective. Currently, the student site, Learning with Integrity, is the highest enrolled Canvas course in all IU and used by many first-year seminar courses. The faculty and teaching assistants' site, Student Integrity and Faculty Responsibilities, is used for Graduate Student orientation to help new teaching assistants with familiarity of academic misconduct and other issues surrounding integrity from the instructor perspective.
Gina was a faculty fellow for six years with both eLearning and Design Services (eDS) under UTIS and with the Office of Online Education with Online Collaborative Academic Programs. During this time, Gina worked closely with the IU Online conference committee, instituted a webinar series for faculty to Continue the Conversation on their successes in the online learning environment, and developed an assessment procedure and process for the five-year review of online programs within the IU institution.