Presenters
- Tova Duby
- Chuck Dziuban
- Joel L. Hartman
- Frederick Snow
- Stephen Laster
- Tana Monaco
- Mary P. Niemiec
- George Otte
- Anthony G. Picciano
- Karen Swan
- Norm Vaughan
- Karen Vignare
- Sandy Wellinghoff
Meet the Presenters
Tova Duby
Tova Duby is Senior Manager of Blended Learning Implementation at Babson College. She joined Babson in 2001 and is a founding member of Babson's Curriculum Innovation and Technology Group (CITG), which was formed in early 2002. Her focus is on creating a unified effort around blended learning; starting with the Fast Track blended MBA program and then branching out to all areas of the Babson community. She works closely with Deans, Faculty Directors, Graduate and Undergraduate Program Administration, ITSD, Faculty and Staff as a liaison between the different groups to support the successful implementation and growth of Babson's blended learning and teaching initiatives.
Tova's background includes e-Learning platform management, operations and project management, systems training, desktop support and systems analysis. In her time at Babson she has held the roles of instructional technologist, e-Platform manager, CITG Operations manager and CITG Co-Interim Director. Before joining Babson College , she worked as a business systems analyst at John Hancock, where she provided project management and systems analysis support to the business community. Prior to her time at John Hancock, Tova was a senior member of the desktop support team at Allmerica Financial, a role she entered into after being a part of the systems training group.
Chuck Dziuban
Charles Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he has been a faculty member since 1970 teaching research design and statistics. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Since 1996, he has directed the impact evaluation of UCF's distributed learning initiative examining student and faculty outcomes as well as gauging the impact of online courses on the university. Chuck has published in numerous journals including Multivariate Behavioral Research, the Psychological Bulletin, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the American Education Research Journal, the Phi Delta Kappan, the Internet in Higher Education, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, and the Sloan-C View. His methods for determining psychometric adequacy have been featured in both the SPSS and the SAS packages. He has received funding from several government and industrial agencies including the Ford Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and the National Science Foundation. In 2000, Chuck was named UCF's first ever Pegasus Professor for extraordinary research, teaching and service: and in 2005 received the honor of Professor Emeritus. He has co-authored or edited numerous books and chapters on blended and online learning including Handbook of Blended Learning Environments, Educating the Net Generation and Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. In 2005, Chuck received the Sloan Consortium award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual. In 2007, he was appointed to the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Policy Council.
Frederick Snow
Dr. Fred Snow's many years of higher education service include the positions of University President, Vice President, Dean, and Tenured Faculty. He was the Founding Dean of the Online Graduate Programs of Norwich University. These programs are often cited as industry standards of academic rigor, financial performance, retention, and effective marketing. Dr. Snow assists on multiple strategic fronts at Compass, with his primary role being the development and implementation of the company's prospective knowledge partner outreach and corporate marketing.
Joel L. Hartman
Joel Hartman is Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources at the University of
Hartman has been an active author, and presenter at industry conferences. He previously served as treasurer and 2003 Chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, chair of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Advisory Committee, secretary of the Seminars on Academic Computing Coordinating Board, and the Florida Digital Divide Council. He now serves on the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Group, the Oracle Education & Research Industry Strategy Council, the Sloan-C Board of Directors, the Blackboard Client Strategy Council, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Florida LambdaRail.
Hartman has been an information technology consultant to both public and private sector organizations, and has been active in the development of statewide education and research networks in
Hartman graduated from the
Stephen Laster
Stephen Laster is the Chief Information and Technology Officer of the Harvard Business School. Mr. Laster oversees the School's academic and administrative computing environment, including educational technology and blended learning.
Prior to his role as CIO of Harvard Business School, Mr. Laster held several critical leadership positions for Babson College including, Chief Technical Officer for Babson Interactive, Babson's for-profit eLearning company, and Director of Curriculum Innovation and Technology. Mr. Laster was responsible for Babson's adoption of blended learning and led the creation of Babson's Fast Track MBA program. As an instructor in the Information Technology Management Division, Mr. Laster has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He has also taught courses for Babson's School for Executive Education. Mr. Laster has served on several key committees for the College including the Strategic Planning Committee and the Academic Council. He was a member of the Babson College Board of Trustees from 1992-1994.
Mr. Laster consults with institutions and corporations in e-learning product development, digital community building, web strategy, technology strategy, and software development. He has been recognized for thought leadership by IBM in message oriented middleware , and by Ed Tech Magazine in the realm of educational technology. Mr. Laster was recognized by Elluminate, Inc. as a leader in the use of synchronous technology in education.
Mr. Laster holds a BA from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Babson College. He lives in Wellesley, Ma with his wife Debra and their two children.
Tana Monaco
Tana Monaco currently is a faculty member in the Gore School of Business at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where she teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in organizational behavior. Prior to moving to the Rocky Mountain area in 2008, she was the Education Chair for the American College of Education in Chicago , an institution that partners with Chicago public schools to offer master's programs in Educational Leadership and Curriculum & Instruction to urban teachers.
For most of her 20-year career in higher education, she was with the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), working in the European Division ( London ) as well as the home campus in Maryland . At UMUC, she served as an administrator and faculty member. Tana held the position of Associate Dean in the Graduate School for six years before returning to the graduate faculty full-time. Her teaching experience includes traditional classroom as well as online and blended learning models. Tana served as the Sloan-C pillar editor for the cost-effectiveness area of the online model and has published several articles on related topics. She has received formal recognition from the University Continuing Education Association for contributing to the field of distance education research (e.g., “Reinventing the University: The Business of Online Education,” UMUC's Online MBA Program: A Case Study of Cost-Effectiveness and the Implications for Large-Scale Programs”).
Mary P. Niemiec
Mary P. Niemiec is Executive Director for External Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Responsible for online, blended and professional continuing education, Ms. Niemiec directs UIC Online and the efforts of several instructional outreach units that support the 15 academic colleges in their outreach goals. Ms. Niemiec is also leading UIC's campus-wide initiative in blended learning.
Niemiec's most recent professional focus and academic interest has been in public administration, adult education and online learning. She has been the recipient of numerous grants to support initiatives in these areas. Ms. Niemiec has also presented at conferences, seminars and workshops on the topics of non-traditional, online and blended instruction. She is UIC's representative to the Sloan Consortium, University Continuing Education Association, Illinois Virtual Campus and Illinois Council for Continuing Education.
Additionally, Ms. Niemiec serves on the Governing Board of the University Center of Lake County and is the Council of Member Institutions representative for UIC. She also serves on several UIC campus committees including the Blended Learning Steering Committee, the UIC Online Oversight Committee and the Alumni Relations Council.
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George Otte
George Otte Coming out of an interdisciplinary PhD program at Stanford in the early eighties, George Otte became a director of writing programs, and was co-chair, for ten years, of the CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors. More recently, he served Baruch College's Executive Director of Enrichment Programs, which included presiding over high school outreach and communication-across-the-curriculum programs. A member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center (in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education and Technology & Pedagogy), he was co-editor of the Journal of Basic Writing from 1996-2002. From 1998-2005, he served as co-director of Looking Both Ways, a project bringing college and high school teachers together to discuss issues of literacy and learning. In addition to a book he edited for that project, he has co-authored two others, and is currently writing another. In 2006, he became the founding Academic Director of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate, CUNY's first fully online degree. He is now the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where that Online BA has been joined by an Online BS in Business. And he was recently named University Director of Academic Technology for CUNY, a modulation in the title of CUNY Director of Instructional Technology, a position he has held since 2001.
Anthony G. Picciano
Anthony G. Picciano is a professor and executive officer in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also a member of the faculty in the graduate program in Education Leadership at Hunter College, the doctoral certificate program in Interactive Pedagogy and Technology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and CUNY Online BA Program in Communication and Culture. He has thirty-nine years of experience in education administration and teaching, and has been involved in a number of major grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 1998, Dr. Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a multi-million dollar initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provides support services to faculty using the Internet for course development. He was a founding member and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Sloan Consortium.
Dr. Picciano's major research interests are school leadership, education policy, Internet-based teaching and learning, and multimedia instructional models. Dr. Picciano has conducted two national studies with Jeff Seaman on the extent and nature of online and blended learning in American K-12 school districts. He has authored numerous articles and eight books including Data-Driven Decision Making for Effective School Leadership (2006, Pearson), Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 4th Edition (2005, Pearson), Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time (2001, Pearson), and Educational Research Primer (2004, Continuum). In 2007, he co-edited a book on blended learning with Chuck Dziuban entitled, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives (The Sloan Consortium). It is the only book in the field that provides a look at the research on blended learning. Most recently (2009), Dr. Picciano edited a special edition of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks on the theme “Blending with Purpose”.
Karen Swan
Karen Swan is the James J. Stukel Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the
Norm Vaughan
Norm Vaughan: an educator and researcher with interests in blended learning, faculty development and K to 12 schooling, Dr. Norm Vaughan is an instructor in the Department of Education, Faculty of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.
Norm's teaching background includes graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology, K-12 education in northern
Karen Vignare
Karen Vignare currently serves as the Director of MSU Global Ventures at Michigan State University. In that role, Karen is responsible for creating online entrepreneurial approaches for extending both non-credit and credit programs at MSU. She publishes regularly on various topics in online learning. Before that, she was the Sr. Research Analyst for the Online Learning Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In that position, she coordinated efforts to research all facets of online learning to improve online learning environments. She has published several pieces of research and instructor's manuals on distance and e-learning. She is an adjunct professor teaching Customer Relationship Management and Marketing, an Internet course at RIT. Karen serves on several organizational boards – NUTN, Edpath, and Distance Education. Before joining RIT, Karen was a full-time faculty member at SUNY-Alfred State in the marketing, retail and computer technology fields. She also served as a vice president and political economist for a Wall Street financial firm. She has an MBA from the University of Rochester's William Simon School of Business and a B.S. from Frostburg State University in political science and economics. She is currently attending doctoral classes at Nova Southeastern University.
Sandy Wellinghoff
Sandy Wellinghoff is the Program Director for the Fast Track MBA at Babson College in Wellesley , MA . She has been a part of the Babson community for over 7 years. In her current role, she oversees the daily operations of the Fast Track MBA and works closely with faculty, students, and Babson's own Curriculum Innovation Technology Group (CITG) to deliver the Fast Track MBA. Sandy has over 10 years of experience working in the distance learning environment as well as working with numerous “start-up” organizations. Additionally, Sandy earned her Bachelor degree in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts , a web design degree from The Art Institute of Phoenix, and a Master's in Higher Education Administration from Boston University .
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