Ida M. Jones is the Director of the Center for the Scholarly Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CSALT) and is the Verna Mae and Wayne D. Brooks Professor of Business Law at the Craig School of Business, California State University Fresno. Ida earned her J.D. from New York University.

Ida is one of the faculty coordinators for Technology Innovations for Learning and Teaching (TILT), assisting faculty use technology to promote learning.  She teaches the introductory business law course for undergraduate business majors and sports marketing law for sports marketing majors. Ida teaches in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. Ida has taught courses in human resources law and ethics for a variety of businesses, including PELCO, St. Agnes Medical Center and others.

Ida’s research interests involve promoting and improving learning through innovative and also proven teaching methods. These have included using Second Life (a 3D virtual world), Twitter (idaj) and many online tools to engage students and improve the learning environment. Ida has focused on technology and pedagogy in research and publications. Professor Jones has authored/coauthored instructor's manuals for business law textbooks, prepared Internet exercises for textbook publishers and published articles in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Legal Studies Education.