User:Bmorgan

Becka Morgan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Western Oregon University. Becka returned to school in 2005 to complete a Bachelor degree, originally planned to be in Political Science. After taking a CS class she fell in love with computer science and changed her major. In 2008 Becka earned her BS in Computer Science, emphasis in Software Engineering, graduating summa cum laude. During the last year of her undergrad Becka was offered a job teaching computer science at WOU. She earned a MS in Management and Information Systems in 2009 and her PhD in Computer Science Education in December of 2012. Her dissertation is titled How does a Collaborative Community Affect Diverse Students' Engagement with an Open Source Software Project: A Pedagogical Paradigm.

The Open Source class developed as a research model for Dr. Morgan (yes, it is still fun to write the Dr. part :-) ) has been adopted by the CS department for both the undergrad as well as the Masters program, however she feels that there is a much better way to teach people how to participate in OSS and so she is very excited about Posse.

In her spare time Becka is busy with her two teenage daughters, volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, and riding her bike.