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Tony Picciano: Biography
Tony Picciano
Program/Teaching Specialization
Dr. Picciano is a professor in the graduate program in Education Administration and Supervision in the School of Education at Hunter College. He is also on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Program in Urban Education and the Program in Integrated Technology and Pedagogy. His teaching specializations are organization theory, research methods, contemporary issues in education , and instructional technology. He has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs in elementary and secondary education.
Background/Research/Interests
Dr. Picciano has a PhD from Fordham University and has thirty-five years of experience in administration and teaching. He has been involved in a number of grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM (Academic Information Systems Group), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
His grant activities involve urban school systemic reform initiatives especially as related to the design and implementation of technology, the teaching of mathematics, science and technology, and staff development. He has actively been involved with the New York City Leadership Development Initiative, NetTech, the New York City School Business Manager Training Program, the NYC Urban Systemic Initiative, and the New York City Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation.
From 1991 to 2000, Dr. Picciano was a faculty fellow associated with the CUNY Open Systems Laboratory, a facility devoted to experimenting with and disseminating information on the uses of instructional technology. His work at this Laboratory involved developing instructional models and sharing same with colleagues in the University. In collaboration with the American Social History Project, he developed several interactive video programs dealing with subjects such as Irish immigration in the 1850s, the plight of women garment workers in the early 1900s, and the integration of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. One of these projects, The Five Points: A Multimedia Experience in Social History, was selected to be part of a national exhibit held in San Diego, California, in 1991.
In Spring 1997, Dr. Picciano offered one of the first distance learning courses in the City University of New York using asynchronous learning techniques. This course employed a variety of Internet and World Wide Web software tools that enabled students to engage in instruction at any place and at any time. This course served as a model for other professional programs in the University considering similar instructional delivery techniques. In 1998, Dr. Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a University-wide initiative designed to provide support services to faculty wishing to use the Internet and World Wide Web for teaching. Dr. Picciano is active in the Alfred P. Sloan Consortium, an organization of one thousand colleges and universiites dedicated to research and development of online learning models, and is a member of its Board of Directors.
Publications
Dr. Picciano has published many articles and has given numerous presentations at national and international professional conferences. He currently serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN). He has published seven books including: Data-Driven Decision Making for Effective School Leadership(Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2006), Education Research Primer (Continuum, 2004), Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time (Prentice-Hall/Merrill, 2001), and Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 4th Edition, (2006), which is a revision of an earlier work, Computers in the Schools: A Guide to Planning and Administration (1994), and is available from Pearson/Prentice-Hall. His articles and papers have been published in journals such as the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, The Teachers College Record, Journal of Thought, The Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, EDUCOM Review, Computers in the Schools, The Urban Review, Technology and Teacher Education Annual ,and Equity and Choice.
Program/Teaching Specialization
Dr. Picciano is a professor in the graduate program in Education Administration and Supervision in the School of Education at Hunter College. He is also on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Program in Urban Education and the Program in Integrated Technology and Pedagogy. His teaching specializations are organization theory, research methods, contemporary issues in education , and instructional technology. He has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs in elementary and secondary education.
Background/Research/Interests
Dr. Picciano has a PhD from Fordham University and has thirty-five years of experience in administration and teaching. He has been involved in a number of grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM (Academic Information Systems Group), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
His grant activities involve urban school systemic reform initiatives especially as related to the design and implementation of technology, the teaching of mathematics, science and technology, and staff development. He has actively been involved with the New York City Leadership Development Initiative, NetTech, the New York City School Business Manager Training Program, the NYC Urban Systemic Initiative, and the New York City Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation.
From 1991 to 2000, Dr. Picciano was a faculty fellow associated with the CUNY Open Systems Laboratory, a facility devoted to experimenting with and disseminating information on the uses of instructional technology. His work at this Laboratory involved developing instructional models and sharing same with colleagues in the University. In collaboration with the American Social History Project, he developed several interactive video programs dealing with subjects such as Irish immigration in the 1850s, the plight of women garment workers in the early 1900s, and the integration of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. One of these projects, The Five Points: A Multimedia Experience in Social History, was selected to be part of a national exhibit held in San Diego, California, in 1991.
In Spring 1997, Dr. Picciano offered one of the first distance learning courses in the City University of New York using asynchronous learning techniques. This course employed a variety of Internet and World Wide Web software tools that enabled students to engage in instruction at any place and at any time. This course served as a model for other professional programs in the University considering similar instructional delivery techniques. In 1998, Dr. Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a University-wide initiative designed to provide support services to faculty wishing to use the Internet and World Wide Web for teaching. Dr. Picciano is active in the Alfred P. Sloan Consortium, an organization of one thousand colleges and universiites dedicated to research and development of online learning models, and is a member of its Board of Directors.
Publications
Dr. Picciano has published many articles and has given numerous presentations at national and international professional conferences. He currently serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN). He has published seven books including: Data-Driven Decision Making for Effective School Leadership(Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2006), Education Research Primer (Continuum, 2004), Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time (Prentice-Hall/Merrill, 2001), and Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 4th Edition, (2006), which is a revision of an earlier work, Computers in the Schools: A Guide to Planning and Administration (1994), and is available from Pearson/Prentice-Hall. His articles and papers have been published in journals such as the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, The Teachers College Record, Journal of Thought, The Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, EDUCOM Review, Computers in the Schools, The Urban Review, Technology and Teacher Education Annual ,and Equity and Choice.
