Kremen School of Education and Human Development

Kimberly Coy

Associate Professor

Literacy, Early, Bilingual and Special Education | 2066019578

kcoy@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Special Education, August 2013

Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Area of Concentration: Online Learning and Students with Special Learning Needs, Universal Design for Learning, Assessment of Synchronous and Asynchronous Instruction

Dissertation “Online Instruction with Universal Design for Learning in the Synchronous K-12 Classroom”

Master of Arts in Teaching, 1998
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Area of Concentration: Special Education Inclusion

Bachelor of Arts, Speech Communication, 1984
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Courses Taught

Development and Induction: Mild/Moderate and Moderate/Severe Disabilities, SPED 235

Seminar in Advanced and Applied Pedagogy: Mild/Moderate and Moderate/Severe Disabilities, SPED 236

Technology in Educational Leadership, Fall 2018, with Collaborative Online Doctorate in Educational Leadership at CSU Channel Islands & Fresno State

Differentiated Instruction and Classroom Management SPED 179. California State University, Fresno. Hybrid/Blended

Introduction to Special Education. SPED 120. California State University, Fresno. Hybrid

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities SPED 136. California State University, Fresno. Online

Designing Effective Environments for Students with Moderate/Severe Disabilities SPED 145. California State University, Fresno. Hybrid/Blended

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities SPED 136. California State University, Fresno. Online

Kimberly Coy teaches courses focused on inclusive and accessible educational environments within the teacher preparation credentials. She has taught within the Literacy, Early, Bilingual, and Special Education Department at Fresno State as well as the Liberal Studies program. Dr. Coy is a Core Faculty member of the Doctoral Program in Education Leadership at Fresno State. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Dr. Coy taught in both fully face to face, and fully online Kindergarten through Middle School programs. She taught students with both general education and special education needs.

Kimberly Coy, PhD, is an expert in inclusive education, specifically using the lens of Universal Design for Learning in digital environments. Dr. Coy has done extensive work; research, writing, and speaking, on UDL in a variety of educational environments. These include elementary, post-secondary, and digital, settings.

Dr. Coy is interested in UDL primarily because she believes it is not the learners that need to change to be better at school, but schools need to change to be better for students. Learners are not disabled, bored, or lazy. Instead the current educational structures and environments are disabling.

Coy, K. (2020). Universal Design for Learning Enables Significant Learning in Digital Courses. In L. Kyei-Blankson, E. Ntuli, & J. Blankson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Creating Meaningful Experiences in Online Courses (pp. 227-246). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-0115-3.ch014

Smith, S.J., Rao, K., Lowrey, A., Gardner, J.E., Moore, E., Coy, K., Marino, M. & Wojcik, B. (2019) Recommendations for a National Research Agenda in UDL: Outcomes from the UDL-IRN Preconference on Research. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044207319826219

Coy, K. (2018). Universal Design for Learning and Digital Environments: The Education Superpower. The Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education, (10)1.

Transforming Higher Education through Universal Design for Learning and International Perspective, Eds Novak, K., Bracken, S. (2018). Transforming the Professor: Motivating University Students Through Design

Coy, K. (2017). Model universal design for learning in online teacher preparation courses. LD Forum, April 2017.

Coy, K. (2017). “Dad’s Online Gambling Habit Used up our Family Data Plan”: and Other Digital Excuses for Not Doing Homework. Connect. Learn. Transform. Universal Design for Learning: UDL-IRN 4^th Annual Summit Proceedings, 18-21.

Coy, K. (2016). Post Secondary educators can increase educational reach with Universal Design for Learning. Educational Renaissance, 5.

Universal Design for Distance Education: A Guide for Online Course Development, Eds Scott, L.A., Thomas, C. (2016). Expression in Distance Education

Coy, K. (2015). Measuring Universal Design for Leaning in the virtual schooling landscape. UDL-IRN Summit Conference Proceedings, 91-110.