Alan Aycock is Associate Director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Learning Technology Center (LTC) and an instructor in the UWM Department of Anthropology. He taught the first fully online course at UWM and is also an blended instructor of more than ten years’ experience using this format. Alan holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. He has been Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, where he taught for 20 years, and was named Distinguished Teacher of the University there. Alan also served as Professor and Chair of Sociology at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee before coming to UWM. More recently, Alan was the UW-Milwaukee representative in the inaugural cohort of The University of Wisconsin Teaching Scholars Program. Alan speaks about blended courses and learning technologies regularly at national and regional conferences, including EDUCAUSE, NMC, and Madison DT&L. In 2006-7 Alan offered workshops at the Hunter College Summer Institute on Blended Learning, at the Marquette University College of Professional Studies Faculty Development Program, at Coastal Bend College in Texas, and at Simmons College in Boston. In 2008 so far, Alan has offered programs at Northern Illinois University, at University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, at Maryville University in St. Louis, and online for the American University of Beirut. Alan has also published a number of articles on the pedagogy of learning technologies and, more specifically, on blended teaching and learning.

Tanya Joosten is a co-author of a chapter found in "Blended Learning: Research Perspectives" published by the Sloan-C, a recent article on teaching challenges in the EDUCAUSE Review, and an article on clicker technology effectiveness in the ECAR Bulletin. Also, her survey of students' use of Twitter was quoted in the The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus (http://chronicle.com/section/Technology/30/). Tanya has presented her work on managing implementations and evaluating educational technologies (e.g., virtual worlds, clickers) as well as her work in blended and online teaching and learning at EDUCAUSE Annual conference http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/TanyaJoosten/56180), the Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technologies in Online Learning, the Annual Distance Teaching and Learning conference, the National Communication Association Annual conference, and others. As a Learning Technology Consultant and the Acting Associate Director at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Learning Technology Center (LTC), Tanya manages emerging technology projects, like the Second Life initiative (http://uwmsecondlife.wikispaces.com) and the newly developing Social Networking initiative (e.g., uwmsocialnetworking.com), is the campus liaison for online programming (http://online.uwm.edu), and is a part of the recognized team that presents the UWM Online and Blended Faculty Development Workshop (http://hybrid.uwm.edu). In the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she is a Lecturer and at Arizona State University Hugh Downs School of Human Communication where she was a doctorate student and graduate teaching associate, Tanya has gained almost a decade of experience teaching technology-enhanced, blended, and fully online courses. Her research interests include communication technology, technological implementation, organizational communication, and emerging technologies and learning.

Amy Mangrich is an Instructional Design Consultant at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Learning Technology Center (LTC), specializing in the pedagogy of digital content creation and delivery. She is also an experienced instructor, having taught technology-enhanced and blended courses in the Department of Visual Art at UWM. Amy has her terminal degree in Visual Art from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Amy has presented faculty development programs on the blended and fully-online course models, most recently at Marquette University in Wisconsin, Hunter College in New York, Coastal Bend College in Texas, Simmons College in Boston, Northern Illinois University, and Maryville in St. Louis.

Matthew Russell is an Instructional Technology Consultant of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Learning Technology Center (LTC) and a Lecturer in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. He has several years’ experience teaching technology-enhanced courses in rhetoric and composition as well as literature. In addition, he participates in faculty development workshops, has received grants for developing web-based pedagogy resources, and has presented and organized conference panels at national conferences. In the LTC, he is a specialist in the use of electronic portfolios for the development of online and blended humanities courses. He will be receiving his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin during the summer of 2008.

Gerald Bergtrom