Kingsborough Community College Assistant Professor – Full Time, 2014 – present

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University & Colorado State University – Global Assistant Professor – Adjunct Online, 2012 – present

University of New York Tirana (UNYT)   Assistant Professor – Adjunct, 2008 – 2010

George Mason University Faculty Postdoctoral | Research & Teaching Assistant, 2003 – 2008

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Crowe Horwath LLP Manager & Senior Economist in Transfer Pricing & Valuations, 2011 – 2014   

Ernst & Young Manager & Senior Economist in International Business & Taxation, 2009 – 2011

Deloitte Senior Economist in International Business & Taxation, 2008 – 2009

Tila, D. (2024). OER Adoption and Assessment: A Success Story at Kingsborough Community College. Open Journal of Leadership, 13, 108-115.

Tila, D. (2023). Recommendations on the Use of OER in Designing a Course. Economics & Education, 8(4), 63-66.

Tila, D. (2023). Open Pedagogy, Renewable Assignments, and Course Content Creation in Economics. Creative Education, 14(12): 2394-2404.

Tila, D. & Levy, D. (2023). Curating OER Content through AI and ChatGPT. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11(12): 510-527.

Tila, D. & Levy, D. (2023). Increasing Students’ Growth Mindset and Learning Perception by Allowing Online Revision and Resubmission in a Community College. Social Education Research, 5(1), 23–38.

Tila, D. (2023). Impact of OER Material during COVID-19: Survey of Students Enrolled in City University of New York (CUNY) Kingsborough Community College. American J Sci Edu Re: AJSER-128.

Tila, D. & Levy, D. (2022). Open Educational Resources Adoption Reduces Textbook Costs without Sacrificing Student Performance in Business and Economics Courses at a Community College. Social Education Research, 4(1), 122–130.

Tila, D. (2022). Writing across the curriculum (WAC) assignment in macroeconomics: collect, analyze, interpret and implement policies based on economic indicators. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 6(2): 122-133.

Levy, D. & Tila, D. (2022). An Overlooked Benefit of OER: Showing Students We Care. International Journal of Research in Education Humanities and Commere, 3(3): 199 – 204.

Tila, D. (2020). Economic Experiments in a Classroom Improve Learning and Attitudes towards Economics: A Case Study at a Community College of City University of New York. Journal of Education for Business, 96(5): 308-316.

Tila, D. (2020). Shifting to Blended Online Learning and its Impact on Student Performance: A Case Study for Students Enrolled in Economic Courses prior to Covid-19 Emergency Remote Instruction. E-mentor Journal, 4(86): 62-71.

Tila, D. & Levy, D. (2020). Revising Online Assignments and the Impact on Student Performance at a Community College. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 44(3): 163-180.

Tila, D. (2015). Transfer Pricing: A Multistate Tax Issue. Journal of State Taxation, 34(1): 25-30.

J. Dickhaut, et al. (2013). High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 94: 183-189.

 FELLOWSHIPS

2024 – 2025 Faculty Fellow for CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge

2024 – 2025 Teaching on the Commons Fellowship

2021 – 2022 PSC-CUNY Research Award for Cycle 52

2020 – 2021 Open Pedagogy Research Fellowship

2020 – 2021 Open Educational Resources (OER) Research Fellowship

2018 – 2019 Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award

2017 – 2019 Faculty Achievements Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievements (11^th & 12^th Ceremony)

2018 – 2019 PSC-CUNY Research Award for Cycle 49

2007 – 2008 International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics Fellowship

2006 – 2007 Bradley Fellowship

2004 – 2007 ICES Research Assistantship

2006 – 2006 Locke Institute Fellowship (Summer)

2004  – 2006 Dunn’s Fellowship

2005  – 2005 Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship

2003 – 2004 International Fellowship Award (AAWU)

REVIEWER

List of journals served as peer reviewer

Prompt A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments  

American Journal of Distance Education

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

E-mentor

SKILLS

KCC Open Education Showcase. (May 14, 2024). “OER Adoption and Assessment: A Success Story at Kingsborough Community College” Lightning Talk by D. Tila and D. Levy.

Open Education Showcase. (April 27, 2023). “Impact of OER Material during COVID-19: Survey of Students Enrolled in City University New York (CUNY) Kingsborough Community College,” Lightning Talk by D. Tila.

34th Teaching Econ Conference Presentation. (February 24, 2023). “Students’ Challenges and Preferences with Remote Learning during the Pandemic,” presented by Tila, D. and D. Levy.

CUNY Growth Mindset Showcase. (March 31, 2023). “CUNY-wide Mindset Initiative: Past, Present, and Future” Invited to Panel and presented by Tila, D. and D. Levy.

Faculty of the Future Virtual Conference. (June 2, 2023). “Show Students You Care About Their Success and They Will Succeed,” presented by Levy, D. & D. Tila.

Faculty Forum. (May 23, 2023). “Team as Support: A Superhigh Impact Pedagogy,” presented by Tila, D., Fridman, L., A. Haas, and T. Zipper.

KCC QUEST Forum. (May 23, 2022). “KCC Student & Faculty Surveys Spring 2020 through Fall 2021: Using Data to Support Teaching and Learning FIG,” presented by D. Tila.

KCC Faculty Forum. (May 25, 2022). “KCC Students’ Experiences, Challenges, and Preferences with Remote Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” presented by D. Tila.

KCC Data Party. (May 11, 2021). “Kingsborough Student and Faculty Surveys, Spring 2020 & Fall 2020,” Presented by D. Tila.

OpenEd Conference  (November 12, 2020) “Creating a CRT-enabled Open Pedagogy in Online Courses: An Example of a Renewable Assignment,” presented by D. Tila.  

CUE Conference & OER Showcase – Virtual, October 30, 2020 – Combining Open Pedagogy and Culturally Responsive Teaching to Empower Students [co-presented with D. Levy]

Passaic Community College Invited Presentation– Virtual, September 24, 2020 – Designing, Implementing, and Assessing and Engaging Learning Activity with the SPISE Model of Culturally Responsive Teaching [co-presented with D. Levy]

NJCU Community College Showcase: Are you ready – Virtual, July 28, 2020 – Improving Community College Students’ Sense of Belonging with the SPISE Model of Culturally Responsive Teaching [co-presented with D. Levy]

OLC Conference – Orlando, FL – Nov 21, 2019 – Making Courseware Work for You and Your Students [co-presented with K. Polizzotto, D. Levy, & E. Devany]

Northeast OER Summit – May 22, 2019 – Sharing OER Experiences at Kingsborough CC: Initiative, Data Analysis Findings, and Future Prospects [co-presented with D. Levy, E. Devany, K. Polizzotto]

CUE Conference at CUNY City Tech – May 10, 2019 – Economic Experiments at Kingsborough Community College: Learn within the classroom by Re-Creating the “beyond Classroom Walls” Economic Institutions to Improve Learning and Attitudes about Economics

CUE Conference at CUNY City Tech – May 10, 2019 – Shifting Growth Mindset to turn teaching into Learning: A case study at Kingsborough Community College [co-presented with D. Levy]

2019 CUNY Community College Faculty Development Workshop – Jan 10, 2019- Culturally responsive teaching and growth mindset [co-presented with D. Levy]

OpenEd Conference – Niagara Falls, NY – Oct 11, 2018 – The Synergistic Power of Open Pedagogy & Culturally Responsive Teaching to Unlock Student Potential [co-presented with D. Levy]

OpenEd Conference – Niagara Falls, NY – Oct 11, 2018 – Dos and Don’ts: Faculty Perspectives on Designing and Teaching Successful OER Undergraduate Courses [co-presented with D. Levy]

Future Conference – June 2018 – Using Technology in Community College to Cultivate a Professional Mindset [co-presented with D. Levy]

Northeast OER Summit – May 31, 2018 – Dos and Don’ts: Faculty Perspectives on Designing and Teaching Successful OER Undergraduate Courses [co-presented with D. Levy]

CUE Conference – May 5, 2017 – Accelerating & Nurturing Students’ Learning Using Technology [co-presented with D. Levy]

Crowe Horwath’s Webinar– New York,  NY, March 2014 – “Road Map to Transfer Pricing” Synergy

2013: Reuters OneSource Annual Conference – Miami, FL, November 2013 – “Benefits of

ONESOURCE Transfer Pricing over Spreadsheets”

Crowe Horwath’s Transfer Pricing Annual Conference – New York, NY, November 2012 – “Transaction and

Profit Based Methods in Evaluating Inter-company Transactions of Tangibles, Intangibles, and Services” Crowe

Horwath’s Transfer Pricing Annual Conference – New York, NY, November 2011 – “OECD Guidelines and

Transactional Net Margin Method”

E&Y Introduction to Transfer Pricing for Tax Authorities– Albania, April 2010

Deloitte – Doing Business in Albania – Albania, July 2009, “How to Use the Double Taxation Treaties and

Competent Authorities Process”

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) Board of Advisors – Arlington VA –

April 2007 – “Can Manipulation Mislead Market Observers: Individual and Group Prediction in Real and Static

Markets”

Public Choice Conference, New Orleans – March 2005 – “A New Approach to Aggregation of Individual

Choice”