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Michelle Pacansky-Brock received the 2007 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching Award and the 2010 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award for her use of VoiceThread. She teaches the History of Photography online at Mt. San Jacinto College, is the coordinator and an online instructor the @One Online Teaching Certification Program, an active blogger, and author of the forthcoming book, Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies (Routledge). |
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Phil Ice is the VP of Research and Development at American Public University System (APUS) and Vice President of Research & Development for Sage Road Analytics, LLC. His research is focused on the impact of new and emerging technologies on cognition in online learning environments. Work in this area has brought him international recognition in the form of three Sloan-C Effective Practice of the Year Awards (2007, 2009 and 2010) and the AliveTek/DLA Innovation on Online Distance Learning Administration Award. Sloan-C has also recognized Phil through awarding a team he led at APUS with the Gomory Award for Data Driven Quality Improvement in 2009. He has been recognized by industry through membership in Adobe's Education Leaders Group and Adobe's Higher Education Advisory Board, as well as a recipient of the Adobe Higher Education Leaders Impact Award, 2010.
Phil's vision for the future of technology in higher education is also demonstrated by his inclusion on the advisory council for the 2011 NMC / ELI Horizon Report and his role as Principal Investigator on a $1.05 million WICHE/WCET grant to explore online retention patterns across six institutions. His work has covered the use of technology mediated feedback, which has been adopted at over 50 institutions of higher education in five countries, multi-level institutional assessment techniques, learning analytics and application of semantic analysis for mapping institutional learning assets. Phil has conducted over 100 peer reviewed and invited presentations and workshops, as well as authoring more than 20 articles, book chapters and white papers related to the integration of emerging technologies in eLearning. Other examples of his research include the use of embedded asynchronous audio feedback mechanisms, using web 2.0 tools for collaborative construction of knowledge through integration of RIA’s and remote observation of student teaching experiences using asynchronous, flash-based environments.
Phil is also involved with seven other researchers in the United States and Canada in numerous other research initiatives related to the Community of Inquiry Framework. This research has resulted in the development of a validated instrument that captures the intersection of Teaching, Social and Cognitive presence in online learning environments.
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Jennifer C. Richardson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology within the Department of Curriculum & Instruction Department, College of Education at Purdue University. She specializes in distance education courses, teaching foundational and advanced courses, and conducts research into social aspects and best practices for online learning environments. Jennifer has published her work in top journals in the fields of educational technology and distance education, including the Journal of Educational Computing Research, The American Journal of Distance Education, Educational Technology Research & Development, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Network, and the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal. She has also been the PI or Co-PI on several major grant-funded projects including a recently completed US Dept. of Education FIPSE project. She is a former SIG-Instructional Technology Chair (AERA) and Program Chair for Media, Culture & Curriculum (AERA). She serves as the workshop coordinator for Sloan-C Online Learning Conference, is an advisory member for the Sloan-C Board of Directors Committee on Research & Grants Committee, and an advisory panel member for the Sloan-C JALN Advisory Panel for Student Engagement, Support and Success.
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Roger McHaney, Daniel D. Burke Chair for Exceptional Faculty and professor of management information systems, is an expert on business use of technology and on the ways web 2.0 and tech-savvy millennials are impacting higher education and learning. He also works developing distance education learning techniques. His work has been published in many top business and education journals. He has written textbooks and developed a variety of instructional material and has lectured internationally in countries such as India, New Zealand, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Belgium and the Netherlands. A K-State faculty member since 1995, McHaney teaches courses in management of information systems, information resources management, software development and enterprise computing. His research areas include: web 2.0 in education and business, technologies used by millennials, discrete event simulation, educational simulation systems, computer-mediated communication systems, sap and organizational computing. His ongoing research includes study on how social media is impacting business and education, distance learning techniques, business applications in virtual worlds such as second life and development of online training simulations. McHaney was recognized for his excellence in teaching by being named K-State's 2006-2007 Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars. As Coffman Chair, McHaney collected various distance learning techniques used across campus and compiled an online educational resource that makes the transition to distance learning easier for faculty and staff. He is co-founder and wiki master of elatewiki.org which won the 2009 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award and has recently authored a book from Stylus Publishing entitled “The new digital shoreline: How Web 2.0 and millennials are revolutionizing higher education.” McHaney holds a Ph.D. in computer information system and quantitative analysis from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. McHaney can be contacted at 785-532-7479 or mchaney@k-state.edu. |
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Jim Fatzinger, M.Div., MBA, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Management of Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. Jim has authored textless courses including “Management Principles and Practices,” Organizational Behavior and Development,” “Practical Research Methods for Managers” and “Managing a Diverse Workforce” which leverage the interactive capacity of the Internet and save students 50% or more of the cost of printed texts.
Jim has also served as Coordinator of the College of Management’s “Teaching Academy,” developed in response to the challenge of improving the quality of students’ educational experiences in the context of a mushrooming use of adjunct faculty (increased 120.4% nationwide since 1970). In this capacity, he has developed an “Orientation to Teaching in the College of Management” and presented workshops on “Interactive Course Sites,” “Best Practices in Discussions,” “A, B, C or None of the above” (how to write effective multiple choice questions), “Learning Team Charters: Indispensable Documents for Student Collaboration,” “The Bulletproof Syllabus,” “Technology and Teaching,” etc.
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