CV Publications

This page provides a list of publications that I have authored and presentations that I have presented along with relevant venue information.

Scholarly Awards & Recognition

  • Annual Achievement Award. (2022). Awarded by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) for the EdTech Books open textbook platform.
  • Early Career Scholarship Award. (2022). Awarded by Brigham Young University to "acknowledge outstanding promise and contributions in scholarship by faculty at an early stage of their career."
  • Scholarly Contribution to Teacher Education and Educational Technology Award. (2021). Awarded by the AECT Teacher Education Division for work emerging from the EdTech Books platform.
  • Outstanding Publication Award. (2018). Awarded by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Culture, Learning, and Technology (CLT) Division, for the year's most "outstanding published journal article relevant to the field of culture, learning and technology."
  • Early Career Scholar Award. (2017). Awarded by the American Education Research Association (AERA) Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (TACTL) Special Interest Group for making "substantial scholarly contributions to the use of technology as an agent of change in inservice, preservice or teacher education."
  • ETR&D Editor-in-Chief's Certificate of Excellence. (2017). Awarded by the Educational Technology Research & Development (ETR&D) Research Board for providing "exemplary academic services in support of the Educational Technology Research & Development Journal."
  • ETR&D Young Scholars Award. (2017). Awarded by the Educational Technology Research & Development (ETR&D) Research Board for "the best paper presented at the (AECT) convention discussing a theoretical construct that could guide research and/or development in educational technology." The awarded paper was "The PICRAT Model for Technology Integration in Teacher Preparation," which included Charles R. Graham and Richard E. West as co-authors.
  • Nancy Peery Marriott Outstanding Scholar Award. (2017). Chosen by the dean's office committee and awarded annually by the David O. McKay School of Education to a faculty member in the college for outstanding research.
  • Annual Achievement Award. (2016). Awarded by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) for work with the Digital Learning and Social Media Research Group that is "making a significant contribution to the advancement of educational communications and technology." George Veletsianos was also awarded as a co-author.
  • Best Conference Proposal Award. (2015). Voted best proposal (out of 104 submissions) for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Teacher Education Division (TED), for the proposal "Theories that work: Pre-service and practicing teacher evaluations of technology integration models." Cassidy Hall was also awarded as a co-author.
  • AMX Innovation Award Finalist. (2014). Named as a finalist at UB Tech 2014 for the design of an innovative learning technologies lab that balances student-centered cooperative control with teacher management and allows for multi-location touchscreen collaboration.
  • Outstanding Research Paper Award. (2013). Received at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's (AACE) World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (Ed-Media) for the paper "Making learning fun through a ludic simulation."
  • Best Conference Proposal Award. (2011). Highest rated proposal (out of 120 submissions) for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Research and Theory Division (RTD), for the proposal "What do we know about scholars' and researchers' participation in online networks?" George Veletsianos was also awarded as a co-author.
  • Disney Research Learning Challenge Finalist. (2010). Named as a finalist at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) for a problem-based, serious game called "Salamander Rescue," designed to teach middle-school students about earth science and scientific inquiry techniques.

Primary Publications

Secondary Publications

Conference Presentations

  • Kimmons, R. (2024). Ending Socioeconomic Education Divides by Nurturing Generous System. Idaho State University Open Education Week. Pocatello, ID.
  • Kimmons, R. (2024). Ending Socioeconomic Education Divides by Nurturing Generous System. Teaching 4 Learning Conference. Rexburg, ID.
  • Kimmons, R. (2024). Toward More Effective Technology Integration: The PICRAT Model. University of Arizona Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Symposium. Tucson, AZ.
  • Jensen, B., & Kimmons, R. (2022). The open guidebook approach to support collaborative, close-to-practice teacher learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in New Orleans, LA.
  • Jensen, B., & Kimmons, R. (2022). Validating an OER for teachers to learn to enact equitable teaching. Paper present at the annual meeting for the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in Washington, DC.
  • Koseoglu, S. & Kimmons, R. (2022). An innovative approach to academic publishing: Open books. Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Conference.
  • Mason, S., & Kimmons, R. (2022). Increasing Student Publishing Opportunities through Open Publications. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2022.
  • Miller, C., Johnson, T. E., Hodges, C., Spector, J. M., Moore, S. L., Kimmons, R., Pina, A. A., & Boling, E. (2022). AECT Publishing: Thoughts and Reflections from Book and Journal Editors on Getting Published. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2022.
  • Miller, J. & Kimmons, R. (2022). The Do Better Challenge Open Grant Program: A way to sustain and evaluate OER improvements. Northeast OER Summit (NEOER).
  • Wiley, D., & Kimmons, R. (2022). Making Randomized Controlled Trials Easy: Using A/B Testing to Refine the Design of Educational Software and Digital Learning Materials. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2022.
  • Kimmons, R. (2020). EdTech Books: Improving open textbook publishing, quality, and accessibility. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2020.
  • Kimmons, R. (2020). Open textbook analytics for continuous improvement and design research. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2020.
  • Kimmons, R. (2019). Create an open textbook on EdTechBooks.org. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2019, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R. (2019). EdTech Books: Making the best open textbook publishing platform on the Web. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2019, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R. (2019). How accessible are U.S. K-12 school websites and how must they improve? Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2019, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R., & Jackson, B. (2019). EdTech Books: An easy, accessible open textbook platform. Presented at the Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2019, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Kimmons, R., Englund, J., Resig, J., Maddrell, J., Moore, C., North, C., & Tolzmann, E. (2019). Evaluating open educational resources: Results of a collaborative evaluation of crowd-sourced lesson plans. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2019, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Belikov, O., Johnson, N., Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2018). Scholars' temporal participation on, temporary disengagement from, and return to Twitter. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2018, Kansas City, MO.
  • Harding, T., Harker, Z., Kimmons, R., Staples, M. E., Clements, K., & Short, C. R. (2018). Speaking out on Twitter: Understanding teachers' expressed sociopolitical sentiments to improve policymaking. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2018, Kansas City, MO.
  • Kimmons, R., Graham, C., & West, R. (2018). The PICRAT Model of Technology Integration in Teacher Preparation. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2018, Kansas City, MO. [ETR&D Young Scholars Award Presentation]
  • Short, C. R., Clements, K., Staples, M. E., Kimmons, R., Harding, T., & Harker, Z. (2018). Where personal meets professional: Analyzing teacher expression and sharing on Twitter from a massive dataset. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2018, Kansas City, MO.
  • Wasden, R. E., Meier, A., Kimmons, R., Richards, R., & Williams, D. P. (2018). Student perceptions of usability and international applicability of an open-access nutrition textbook for a general college nutrition course. Poster presented at Utah Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Conference, Murray, UT.
  • Wilson, E. K., Richman, L. J., Kimmons, R., Atkins, H. S., & Estes, J. S. (2018). Preparing teacher candidates for transformative digital teaching and learning experiences: Case studies from teacher preparation programs. Presented at Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • Belikov, O., & Kimmons, R. (2017). Cultural and social issues in using social media to support learning. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2017, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Hunsaker, E., & Kimmons, R. (2017). Web 2.0 across the U.S.: A nationwide landscape study of K-12 web system adoption. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2017, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Kimmons, R. (2017). Combating tribalism and navigating paradigms in educational technology research. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2017, Jacksonville, FL. (Competitively selected as a High Impact Talk.)
  • Kimmons, R. (2017). Graduate student assembly - Fireside chat. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2017, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Kimmons, R. (2017). PICRAT: Teaching critical thinking in technology integration. Presented to Oral Roberts University Faculty, Tulsa, OK.
  • Kimmons, R. (2017). PICRAT: Teaching critical thinking in technology integration. Presented to University of Minnesota Faculty, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Kimmons, R. (2017). YouTube video mashups for artistic expression and scientific reporting. Presented at WSU Arts Integration Conference (WSUAI), Ogden, UT.
  • Paskevicius, M., Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2017). An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016. Presented at the World Conference on Online Learning: Teaching in a Digital Age - Re-Thinking Teaching & Learning (2017), Toronto, CA.
  • Austin, M., Gregson, M., Jones, E., McGuire, K., Stauffer, M., & Kimmons, R. (2016). Understanding religious identity through Twitter behavior patterns. Presented at McKay School of Education Mentored Research Conference.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). Exploring the 4 C's through social media. Presented at Learning Edge Conference, Provo, UT.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). Open textbook quality and adaptation in K-12. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). Open to all? University website accessible design across the U.S. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). PICRAT: Thinking critically with technology. Presented at a special invited session by USDOE and AACTE, Washington, DC.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). Student voice in textbook evaluation: Comparing open and restricted textbooks. Presented at the Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2016, Richmond, VA.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). The liberating new world of open educational resources (OER): Copyright, fair use, and open licensing. Presented to Classroom 2.0 LIVE.
  • Kimmons, R. (2016). Video mashups for sharing artistic and scientific works. Presented at WSU Arts Integration Conference (WSUAI), Ogden, UT.
  • Kimmons, R., McGuire, K., Stauffer, M., Jones, E., Gregson, M., & Austin, M. (2016). Understanding LDS Twitter use. Presented at the annual Instructional Design and Learning Community (IDLC) Conference. Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Lloyd, A., Woodward, S., & Kimmons, R. (2016). Student voice in textbook evaluation: Comparing open and restricted textbooks. Presented at McKay School of Education Mentored Research Conference.
  • Nyland, R., Greenhalgh, S., Rosenberg, J., Koehler, M., Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2016). Public data mining methods, ethics, & legalities. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2016). Education scholars on Twitter. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2016, Las Vegas, NV. (Competitively selected as a Featured Research presentation.)
  • Veletsianos, G., Kimmons, R., & Shaw, A. (2016). Successful, sunny, and shining: The misleading ways that student life and faculty are represented through Canadian university Twitter accounts. Presented at Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), Calgary, AB.
  • Woodward, S., Kimmons, R., & Veletsianos, G. (2016). U.S. universities on Twitter. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Haruch, A., Hall, C., Clark, B., Kimmons, R. (2015). Potential benefits and implications of active learning classrooms. Presented at Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITTE), Las Vegas, NV.
  • Haruch, A., Kimmons, R., Clark, B., Hall, C. (2015). Hacking cost barriers to technology integration. Presented at Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE), Portland, OR.
  • Kellerer, E., Kimmons, R., Hall, C., Russell, G., & Ackley, A. (2015). The great, the less great, and the not-so-great of school-wide technology integration. Presented at Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE), Portland, OR.
  • Kimmons, R. (2015). Barriers to openness in K-12: Effects of district size and wealth on open-source software adoption. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2015, Indianapolis, IN.
  • Kimmons, R. (2015). Expansive openness in K-12 teacher practice. Presented at the Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2015, Vancouver, BC.
  • Kimmons, R. (2015). Expansive openness: Why reducing cost is not enough for realizing the full benefits of OER. Presented at Openness, Digital Learning & Networked Scholarship Symposium 2015, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.
  • Kimmons, R., & Hall, C. Theories that work: Pre-service and practicing teacher evaluations of technology integration models. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2015, Indianapolis, IN. (Competitively selected as a Featured Research presentation.)
  • Kimmons, R., Clark, B., & Lim, M. (2015). Which one is the "digital native?" Understanding student and teacher web usage patterns. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2015, Indianapolis, IN.
  • Hall, C., & Kimmons, R. (2014). Google apps and accessibility. Presented at Idaho Google Apps for Education Festival - North (iGAFE) 2014, Post Falls, ID.
  • Hall, C., Clark, B., Kimmons, R., & Haruch, A. (2014). Viewing the student perspective through Google Glass. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2014, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Hall, C., Kimmons, R., & Mantle-Bromley, C. (2014). Evaluating technology integration models for teacher education, research, and practice. Presented at the Oxford Education Research Symposium 2014, Oxford, UK.
  • Haruch, A., Clark, B., Kimmons, R., and Hall, C. (2014). Introduction to Google hardware: Chromebooks, Chromecasts, and Glass. Presented at Idaho Google Apps for Education Festival - North (iGAFE) 2014, Post Falls, ID.
  • Kimmons, R. (2014). Collection and analysis of web browser history and bookmark data for supporting innovative research. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2014, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Kimmons, R. (2014). K-12 web crawling: A novel approach to understanding statewide patterns of adoption. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention (AECT) 2014, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Kimmons, R., & Mantle-Bromley, C. (2014). Exploring the unique and disruptive case of licensure requirements for technology competency. Presented at annual conference of National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) 2014, Kansas City, MO.
  • Kimmons, R., & Veletsianos, G. (2014). The fragmented educator: Social networking sites and acceptable identity fragments. Presented at annual conference of American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2014, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Kimmons, R., Clark, B., & Hall, C. (2014). Design and development of an innovative learning space for improved pedagogy in higher education. Presented at University Business National Summit on Technology & Leadership in Higher Education (UBTech) 2014, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Kimmons, R., Haruch, A., Hall, C., & Clark, B. (2014). A grassroots approach to supporting OER literacy development with rural teachers. Presented at the Annual Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2014, Washington, D.C.
  • Veletsianos, G., Gruzd, A., Kimmons, R., Greenhow, C., & Stewart, B. (2014). Networked participatory scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use of social media. Presented at Social Media & Society (SM&S) 2014, Toronto, CA.
  • Kimmons, R., & Veletsianos, G. (2013). Teacher professionalization in the age of social networking sites. Presented at annual conference of Association for Educational Communications and Technology International (AECT) 2013, Anaheim, CA.
  • Liu, M., Horton, L., Kang, J., Kimmons, R. & Lee, J. (2013). Making learning fun through a ludic simulation. Presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media) 2013 (p. 2535). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
  • Veletsianos, G., Kimmons, R., & French, K. (2013). Instructor experiences with a social networking site in a formal education setting: Expectations, frustrations, appropriation, and compartmentalization. Presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) 2013, San Francisco, CA.
  • Kimmons, R. (2012). Social networking sites, literacy, and the authentic identity problem. Presented at annual conference of Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) 2012, Louisville, KY.
  • Kimmons, R., & Veletsianos, G. (2012). What is it like for faculty members to participate in online social networks? Presented at annual conference of American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) 2012, Vancouver, BC.
  • Kimmons, R., Liu, M., Kang, J., Santana, L. (2012). Attitude, achievement, and gender in a middle school science-based ludic simulation for learning. Presented at Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITTE), Austin, TX.
  • Read, M., & Kimmons, R. (2012). iPads as mobile IWBs. Presented at Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITTE), Austin, TX.
  • Horton, L., Anderson, M., Kimmons, R., Rosenblum, J., & Lee, J. (2011). A design-based research collaborative: Reiterative approaches to the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive learning environments. Roundtable conducted at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) 2011, New Orleans, LA.
  • Kimmons, R. (2011). Atomic Studio: Toward channeling cognitive surplus for open education. Presented at Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2011, Park City, UT.
  • Kimmons, R. (2011). On the reasonableness of TPACK as an implementation and evaluation framework. Presented at annual conference of Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Conference (AECT) 2011, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Schallert, D., French, K., & Kimmons, R. (2011). Why ask, "What's a case?" Codesigning video-case learning tools in the YouTube era. Roundtable conducted at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) 2011, New Orleans, LA.
  • Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2011). Does researcher participation in online networks democratize knowledge production and dissemination? Presented at Open Education Conference (OpenEd) 2011, Park City, UT.
  • Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2011). What do we know about scholars' and researchers' participation in online networks? Presented at annual conference of Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Conference (AECT) 2011, Jacksonville, FL.
  • French, K., & Kimmons, R. (2010). Teaching 21st century skills and addressing academic standards through storytelling. Presented at College and Career Readiness Initiative Symposium (CCRI) 2010, Austin, TX.
  • Horton, L., Liu, M., Kimmons, R., Rosenblum, J., Anderson, M., Toprac, P., & Lee, J. (2010). An enabling architecture for conducting design-based research. Presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media) 2010, Toronto, CA.
  • Kimmons, R. (2010). Approximating TPACK in teacher preparation: A three-pronged approach to effective technology integration. Presented at the Consortium for Research in Teacher Education Symposium (CRTE) 2010, Austin, TX.
  • Kimmons, R. (2010). Digital play, ludology, and the future of educational games. Presented at the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2010, Orlando, FL.
  • Kimmons, R. (2010). What does open collaboration on Wikipedia really look like? Presented at the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2010, Orlando, FL.
  • Liu, M., Horton, L., Kimmons, R., Anderson, M., Lee, J., Rosenblum, J., Toprac, P., Li, Y., & Sung, W. (2010). The design and development of a media rich learning environment: A learners-as-designers model. Presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media) 2010, Toronto, CA.
  • Veletsianos, G., & Kimmons, R. (2010). Networked participatory scholarship: Socio-cultural & techno-cultural pressures on scholarly practice. Presented at the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) 2010, Orlando, FL.
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