Faculty & Staff

Casey Frechette

Department Chair
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Program ALC Coordinator

Phone: 727-873-4472
Email

Biography

Dr. Frechette is an associate professor in the journalism and digital communication department and the director of online research and development. He teaches digital media and researches the role of technology in learning. Before joining the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Dr. Frechette was an interactive learning producer with Poynter’s News University, one of the world’s most innovative online journalism and media training programs. At Poynter, Dr. Frechette worked with faculty and industry leaders to design and build custom training experiences for a community of 200,000 learners. Dr. Frechette has over a decade of Web development and e-learning experience, specializing in PHP, MySQL and jQuery. He produced multimedia lessons for Navajo students at the University of New Mexico’s Technology and Education Center and DJed at KSEL in Portales, New Mexico. Dr. Frechette has a master’s in media arts and computer science and a doctorate in organizational learning and instructional technologies. His dissertation looks at the effects of animated characters in Web-based learning environments, and his research has appeared in the Journal of Media Psychology and other peer-reviewed publications.