3D Printer to CPASS

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The Teaching Learning Commons Technology Integration grant funded the purchase of the Dremel Digilab 3D45 3D printer for the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CPASS). This printer continues to be used in the Adapted Physical Education Friday Program and related courses to develop and create assistive technology to promote physical activity participation among K-12 students with disabilities. This project has allowed pre-service teachers to make global connections through an active learning opportunity while achieving International Society for Technology in Education standards and the Society of Health and Physical Educators National Standards for Initial Physical Education Teacher Education. Despite the disruption due to COVID-19, the 3D printer was well integrated into the CPASS curriculum and research on assistive technology. The impact of incorporating the Dremel Digilab 3D45 3D printer on student learning continues to be evaluated using the RE-AIM framework. Major outcomes since granted have included:

Reach:

Peer reviewed article to the Journal of TEACHING Exceptional Children, Designing Inclusion: Using 3D Print to Maximize APE Participation (Simpson & Taliaferro, in press).
Poster presentation at the national conference for the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) Examining the Opinions of Youth with Visual Impairments on 3D Printed Assistive Technology (Simpson, 2021).
Number of faculty utilizing 3D printed technology during instruction=2.

Effectiveness:

Results of open-ended questions indicated that students learned how to identify, print, and apply 3D printed assistive technology for use in PE and sport settings.

Adoption:

3D print assistive technology lectures in three courses (ACE 215, ACE 488 and RPTR 145)

Implementation:

Prints in year 1

Trial and error misprints
Adapted bike pedal (x2)
Adapted pen holder (x2)
Braille Dice
Braille Alphabet
Head with nostrils for COVID-19 test demonstration & prototype test models

Maintenance:

Future plans involve the continued use of the 3D printer within CPASS courses and the Adapted Physical Education Practicum. Additionally, an online learning module on 3D printed assistive technology will be developed and implemented within 2 courses across the next year.

Continued use of the printer will result in supporting the participation of student with disabilities in the Adapted Physical Education Friday Program through 3D printed assistive technology, assistive technology preparation to future physical activity professionals through developed training modules, and overall support to the CPASS curriculum through the creation of requested 3D prints.

A. Chloe Simpson

COACHING AND TEACHING STUDIES

Chloe Simpson is a doctoral student from Clarksburg, California. She earned her BS in Kinesiology, Exercise Science at California State University, Sacramento, and her MS in Kinesiology with an option in Adapted Physical Activity at Oregon State University. Chloe currently holds a graduate research assistantship through the Office of Special Education Programs. Her research interests lie within inclusive physical activity and education.

Andrea Taliaferro

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dr. Andrea Taliaferro received her B.S. in kinesiology, physical education from James Madison University (2000) and holds a M.Ed. (2002) and Ph.D. (2010) from the University of Virginia in the area of education/kinesiology, adapted physical education. She has extensive academic preparation and experience in the areas of adapted physical education/activity, physical education, curriculum, motor development, research methods and statistics.

Taliaferro holds a national certification from NCPERID as a Certified Adapted Physical Educator and has experience working with individuals with disabilities in a variety of physical activity/education contexts including school- and community-based programming. She has contributed to several local, county and statewide interdisciplinary initiatives including McDowell CHOICES and the National Inclusion Project Partnership.

Taliaferro serves as the director of the Friday Adapted Physical Education Practicum Program at West Virginia University. She also currently serves as an Advisory Council member for the National Drowning Prevention Alliance and as the Vice President for the National Consortium for Physical Education for Individuals with Disabilities (2019-2021).

Sean Bulger

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR GRADUATE AND ONLINE EDUCATION

Dr. Sean Bulger serves as the Associate Dean of Graduate and Online Education in the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences. His current leadership role includes administrative oversight of enrollment management, student success, graduate education, and distance learning. Bulger received his B.S. in Physical Education from Canisius College of Buffalo (1992), M.Ed. from North Dakota State University (1997), and Ed.D. from WVU (2004) with an emphasis in physical education and cognate in applied exercise science. Bulger has more than twenty-five years of experience working with individuals across a developmental perspective in a range of physical activity settings involving school, community, and family-based programs. His research and teaching interests include children’s physical activity and health-related fitness, school physical activity, and professional issues in higher education. He has authored over 60 journal articles, chapters, and books in these areas and delivered more than 130 state, regional, national, and international presentations. Bulger’s current collaborative, community-based projects target increased access to healthy foods and physical activity in rural WV through policy, systems and environmental changes. He remains committed to the mission of the land-grant university and aspires to maintain a well-integrated approach to his teaching, research, and service activities. Related contributions to the profession have resulted in multiple state-wide recognition and awards.