Presenters
- Chuck Dziuban
- Robert Fulkerth
- Joel L. Hartman
- Deepa Godambe
- Charles R. Graham
- Clark Hulse
- Steve Jones
- Tanya Joosten
- Robert Kaleta
- Mark Laumakis
- Kathy Lovell
- Polly Miller
- Patsy Moskal
- Mary P. Niemiec
- George Otte
- Anthony G. Picciano
- Sean Rowland
- Karen Swan
- Karen Vignare
Meet the Presenters
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.
Robert Fulkerth
Dr. Robert Fulkerth is Chair of the Operations and Information Technology Department at Golden Gate University (www.ggu.edu), in San Francisco , California . He has been actively engaged in online education since the early 90's, having taught online English classes using early bulletin-board/email systems.
He now teaches technology classes at graduate and undergraduate levels on the university's Cybercampus (eCollege) system.
He is active in developing online coursework, faculty mentoring and development, issues of quality in online teaching/learning, as well as the ongoing development of blended and mixed mode courses.
He is an active member of the broader faculty community, and is an integral participant in the university's academic uses of technology.
Deepa Godambe
Deepa Godambe is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at William Rainey Harper College, in Palatine, Illinois. Deepa teaches Organic and General chemistry at Harper College. Deepa has taught “Chemistry for the Health Sciences” in the blended format for the past eight years. In addition Deepa teaches a graduate course “Engaged Learning with Technology” that introduces faculty to “best practices” in online teaching and learning.
Deepa was an initiator of the STOMP program at Harper College. STOMP (Successful Teaching Online Mentoring Program) mentors faculty who want to develop and teach online and hybrid courses at Harper College. Deepa has served as a faculty mentor for the past four years. Deepa was presented with the Glenn Reich award for the effective use of technology in Teaching and Learning in 2005.
Deepa is very interested in developing interactive materials for use in her courses. At present she has a faculty fellowship to develop new labs for her blended course.
Deepa received her BSc and MS degrees from Bombay University, in Bombay, India.
Charles R. Graham
Charles R. Graham is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University with a focus on technology-mediated teaching and learning. He has an MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois where he helped to develop an asynchronous learning environment used in undergraduate engineering courses. In 2002, Charles completed his doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University where he worked for the Center for Research on Learning and Technology and helped to develop an online professional development environment for K-12 educators. His research interests include the study of online collaborative learning environments and the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. He has authored articles in many journals including: Quarterly Review of Distance Education, Educause Quarterly, Small Group Research, Educational Technology TechTrends, Educational Technology Research & Development, Active Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, Computers in the Schools & the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. Charles has also published work related to online and blended learning environments in edited books including Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, The Encyclopedia of Distance Learning and the AECT Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology. Charles recently co-edited the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006, Pfeiffer) which contains chapters on blended learning in higher education, corporate and military contexts from around the world.
Joel L. Hartman
Joel L. Hartman is Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. As the university's CIO, he has overall responsibility for library, computing, networking, telecommunications, media services and distributed learning activities. Hartman was employed by Bradley University from 1967 to 1995, holding several information technology management positions, including CIO.
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 and secretary of the Seminars on Academic Computing Coordinating Board. He also serves on the Florida Digital Divide Council, the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Group and is Vice Chair 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 Illinois and Florida. He has served and held offices on numerous state, regional and national IT committees in areas including public broadcasting, distributed learning and networking.
Hartman graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with bachelor's and master's degrees in Journalism and Communications, and received his doctorate from the University of Central Florida.
Clark Hulse
Clark Hulse (PhD) is Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Chancellor and Vice Provost for Graduate and Continuing Studies. At UIC he holds appointments as Professor of English and Art History, and has been Visiting Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and Interim Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. His research specialties are Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and visual culture. He is the author of four books, and has held fellowships and research grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, British Academy and the College Art Association. Active in the area of public humanities, he has worked on projects with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council and the Chicago Humanities Festival. In 2003 he curated a multi-part exhibition commemorating the 400 th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth I, including a physical exhibit at the Newberry Library, a 40-city traveling exhibition sponsored by the American Library Association, and an online exhibition won the 2004 Lieb Prize for outstanding web exhibition from the Association of Research Libraries. Since 2005 Hulse has been project director for the Richard J. Daley Urban Forum at UIC, an annual symposium on global urban issues.
His teaching has employed multimedia and web technologies for 20 years. As Vice Provost, he oversees UIC's School of Continuing Studies and Blended Initiative.
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is Associate Dean for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Communication, Research Associate in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Adjunct Professor of Electronic Media in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois – Chicago, and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author and editor of numerous books, including Society Online, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety 2.0, The Encyclopedia of New Media and The Internet for Educators and Homeschoolers.
Jones was the founder and first President of the Association of Internet Researchers and serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. He has made numerous presentations to scholarly and business groups about the Internet and social change, about the Internet's social and commercial uses, and about young peoples' Internet use. He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture, and edits Digital Formations, a series of books on digital media, the Internet and communication under the Peter Lang Publishing imprint. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Tides Foundation. In addition to numerous honors and awards, the National Communication Association (the largest scholarly organization in the field of communication) and the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research created the annual Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture at the National Communication Association convention in recognition of his contributions to the study of communication and technology.
Tanya Joosten
Tanya Joosten is an Instructional Design Consultant at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Learning Technology Center (LTC) and is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication. She has several years of experience teaching technology-enhanced, hybrid, and fully online courses. She specializes in communication technology, mediated communication, and quantitative and qualitative technological evaluation. Tanya is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in Communication, Management, and Public Administration from Arizona State University . Her research program focuses on organizational communication and communication technology. She has presented several development programs that focus on the integration of technology in the education, non-profit, and private sectors. Also, she has presented several papers at national conferences, including EDUCAUSE and the National Communication Association (NCA) annual conferences. Recently, she was a co-author of a chapter on hybrid learning found in "Blended Learning: Research Perspectives" published by the Sloan-C.
Robert Kaleta
Robert Kaleta is director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Learning Technology Center (LTC), the campus faculty development center for instructional technology. The Center focuses on assisting mainstream faculty with their efforts to effectively integrate technology into their courses and make the transition to blended and online teaching. Bob received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. An instructor in the Department of Psychology at UWM, he has extensive personal experience using technology for teaching. Bob has presented papers and conducted a number of workshops on faculty development in instructional technology and on hybrids/blended learning at national conferences. His writings have focused on preparing faculty for hybrid/blended learning and faculty experiences teaching hybrid/blended courses. Other areas of interest include the integration of student response systems for engaging students in large lecture courses and the use of portable rich media, such as audio, video and enhanced podcasting for teaching and learning. He is currently involved in research to evaluate student and faculty reactions to these technologies and assess their impact on learning.
Mark Laumakis
Mark Laumakis, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU). He also holds the position of Faculty-in-Residence in Instructional Technology Services at SDSU. Mark has incorporated a blended learning approach into his teaching of two 500-student sections of Introductory Psychology at SDSU. He makes extensive use of “clickers” in his face-to-face classes. Mark is a two-time winner of the SDSU Division of Student Affairs Residential Education Favorite Faculty Award, for both the 2005-06 and 2006-07 academic years. He was also chosen as the 2008 Favorite Faculty member at SDSU by a student poll of the SDSU Daily Aztec readers. Mark was also selected as a Tech Star by the SDSU Instructional Technology Services unit for his innovative use of technology in his face-to-face and online class sessions. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California . Mark resides in San Diego with his wife and three young sons, ages 8, 5, and 3.
Kathy Lovell
Kathryn Lovell, PhD is Director of Academic Computing and Director of the Year 1 Curriculum in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University , and Professor in the Department of Neurology/Ophthalmology and Neuroscience Program. She has been involved in the Basic Sciences Review Board for Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), established as a repository for shared multimedia resources for medical education. Teaching responsibilities include course coordinator for neuroscience systems courses for Year 2 medical students in the Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine; lectures in neuroscience and neuropathology in several courses; teaching a blended neuroscience course for students in the CHM post-baccalaureate program; development and coordination of performance-based assessment in clinical neuroscience for Year 2 students; development of Neuropathology Self-Instructional Units CD-ROM and Web site. Kathy has extensive personal experience using technology for teaching as well as facilitating the implementation of technology in other courses in the curriculum. She has published and presented papers on innovative approaches to analysis of student knowledge, development of multimedia modules, and use of online lecture recordings by students.
Polly Miller
Polly Miller Born and raised in Rhode Island , Polly received her B. A. in Elementary Education from Rhode Island College , her Master's Degree in Education, Computing and Media from Arizona State University , and is currently enrolled in the Philosophy of Education doctoral program with a concentration in E-Learning and Online Teaching at Northcentral University .
For the past five years, Polly has provided leadership for the E-Learning Program at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) which includes both blended learning and online courses. Previous roles at EMCC have included managing the Information Commons, administering the Self-Paced Program, and working with students, faculty, and staff in a variety of formats and computer-based projects, as well as teaching as a Computer Information Systems and Business adjunct faculty member. A pivotal role was serving as a member of the year long E-Learning Task Force; Polly developed the final report and web site . This past year, Polly completed comprehensive training to become a member of the North Central Association Higher Learning Commission Consultant-Evaluator Corps and has just returned from her first accreditation team visit.
Prior to moving to Arizona , Polly was a Regional Manager specializing in multi-unit retail management, overseeing multi-million dollar operations. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and gardener. “I like to think that I am particularly effective in the hybrid (blended) environment because I am a ‘hybrid', bringing together my educational, business, and learner background to strategically design and implement the E-Learning program at EMCC.”
Patsy Moskal
Patsy Moskal is the Associate Director for the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where she has been a faculty member since 1989. She received an Ed.D. from UCF specializing in Instructional Technology and Research Methods and holds BS and MS degrees in computer science. Since 1996, she has served as the liaison for faculty research of distributed learning and teaching effectiveness at UCF. Patsy specializes in statistics, graphics, program evaluation, and applied data analysis. She has extensive experience in research methods including survey development, interviewing, and conducting focus groups and frequently serves as an evaluation consultant to school districts, and industry and government organizations. She has co-authored a number of book chapters and journal articles on research in online and blended courses.
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, Illinois Council for Continuing Education.
Additionally, Ms. Niemiec is Vice Chair of 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, UIC Online Oversight Committee, the Senate Committee for Educational Policy (SCEP) and chairs the SCEP External Education Subcommittee.
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. He is currently Academic Director of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program as well as Director of Instructional Technology for CUNY, a position he has held since 2001.
Anthony G. Picciano
Anthony G. Picciano is a professor in the graduate program in Education Leadership at Hunter College. He is also a member of the faculty for the PhD program in Urban Education and the program in Interactive Pedagogy and Technology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has thirty-seven 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. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Sloan Consortium. His major research interests are school leadership, policy, Internet-based teaching and learning, and multimedia instructional models. Dr. Picciano 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). His most recent book was co-edited with Chuck Dziuban and is entitled, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives (2007, Sloan Consortium). Dr. Picciano also recently finished a national study in February 2007, with Jeff Seaman on the extant and nature of online learning in American public school districts. It is one of the first studies to collect data on and compare fully online and blended learning in K-12 schools. (http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/K-12_06.asp).
Dr. Sean Rowland
Dr. Sean Rowland is the founder and President of Hibernia College in Dublin, Ireland. Hibernia College is an online, third-level educational institution designed to meet the growing demand for flexible, lifelong learning that is not prohibited by location or time. Educational institutions worldwide are increasingly pressured to offer their programs to broader populations in a flexible and innovative manner. Hibernia College has brought together global leaders in technology development and curriculum design to offer a high quality e-learning solution focused on academic excellence, high standards and most importantly, the needs of the student. The Web-enabled institution now offers degree level programs to a variety of niche markets. His colleagues from world class universities have helped through collaboration, to position Hibernia College at the forefront of the e-learning community. Dr Rowland is the former Director and Founder of the Irish Institute at Boston College and currently serves as President of the Harvard Club of Ireland.
Karen Swan
Karen Swan is Research Professor in the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University. Dr. Swan's research has been in the general area of media and learning. It currently centers on teaching and learning in ubiquitous computing environments and on online learning with a particular focus on interactivity, social presence and interface issues. She taught several online courses in educational technology for seven years and pioneered the development of an online degree in Instructional Technology at the University at Albany. She is the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research, and Editor of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, a new online, multimedia research journal. Dr. Swan was the 2006 winner of the Sloan-C award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual.
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.
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