Delores Amorelli

Delores Amorelli is the Associate Director of Faculty Development at the School of Professional Studies, where she is responsible for designing, developing, and facilitating workshops and related programming across a number of teaching and learning topics important to SPS.  Prior to this role, Delores served as an Instructional Designer at the School of Professional Studies, where she collaborated with faculty to design and develop face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses for the Nonprofit Management, Business Certificate, and Information and Knowledge Strategy programs.

Prior to joining Columbia, she served as an Instructional Designer for Faculty Development at Bisk Education in Tampa, FL, where she designed, developed, and facilitated professional development courses for instructors who were transitioning from teaching face-to-face to teaching online. She was also a key member of a cross-functional LMS team that worked to remove impediments to the learning process and to define new ways of offering unique learning opportunities to students and faculty through the creation, and sometimes adoption, of innovative technologies.

Delores has extensive experience working in higher education. She has taught Technical Writing and English Composition at the University of Florida and Developmental Writing at Hillsborough Community College. She has also worked as an Assistant Reference Librarian at the University of South Florida, where she provided students and faculty with both face-to-face and virtual reference services to support their academic research.

Delores is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Management at Drexel University. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, with a concentration in academic libraries, and a Bachelor’s degree in English, from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include technology-enhanced teaching and learning, the social and cultural dynamics of collaborative learning in the context of globalization, and the relationship between faculty development programming and student achievement.