Biographical Details

Eunice N. Askov (Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction (Reading), University of Wisconsin - Madison), is Distinguished Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, at The Pennsylvania State University. She was on sabbatical leave for 2000 – 2001 to study applications of distance education to adult literacy programs at Flinders University, Institute of International Education, Adelaide, South Australia. On a sabbatical leave in 1993, she studied applications of technology in adult literacy in developed and developing countries in travels around the world.As co-director of research for both institutes, she provides leadership and research in adult literacy through various projects relating to family literacy, applications of technology to instruction, workplace literacy, and staff development. She was the first Literacy Leader Fellow at the National Institute for Literacy in Washington, DC, carrying out research related to skill standards and workplace literacy. She has also conducted research in adult literacy at the University of Western Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar's Award (1983). She was named Distinguished Fellow, The Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), Institute of International Education (1998), and given the University of Wisconsin, School of Education Alumni Achievement Award (1994) and the College of Education Career Achievement Award at Penn State (1999).In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is author of four textbooks on reading instruction. She is currently chair of the SIG on Adult Literacy and Adult Education in the American Educational Research Association. In addition to membership in several adult education and literacy organizations, she represents Penn State on the National Coalition for Literacy, having also served as an officer and research chair.Mary Beth Bianco is Coordinator of Professional Development for the BLaST Intermediate Unit 17 in Williamsport, PA and is a course instructor for Pennsylvania State University’s WorldCampus. She received her Ph.D. from Penn State.John Burns is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. He specializes in the areas of Human Computer Interaction and Human Factors in Systems Design. His work in this area led him to take an active interest in the design and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a teaching and learning environment. Burns formed the Learning In Virtual Environment (LIVE) research group at the University and he and the group have been involved in a number of research projects into the use of ICT. Their research and experience of using videoconferencing in higher education has resulted in the publication of a case study and a set of practical guidelines for teaching with videoconferencing. The group have also published and presented a wide number of papers at international conferences on the critical factors that can promote or inhibit the effective use of ICTs in a teaching and learning environment. Burns has also developed and organized a number of workshops and provides consultancy and training for academic staff on how to use video-mediated technology successfully in a teaching and learning environment.Alison A. Carr-Chellman is an Associate Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State University and the program chair for Instructional Systems. Her research interests include educational systems design, stakeholder participation, critiques of online learning, and systemic impacts of technological innovations on K-12, higher education and training in business and industry.Terry Daniels is an assistant professor at St. John’s University. He received his doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education from Nova Southeastern University. He is a proponent of Inquiry-Based Learning to create alternate ways to introduce instructional technology across the curriculum.Ricard E. (Rick) Downing is currently Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Knowledge Management in the Helzberg School of Management at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri where he teaches information system, database, and network systems design and management. Downing is also an instructor in the widely acclaimed Information Technology Leadership program in the Helzberg School of Management. Active in the microcomputer industry for over 20 years, Downing has held roles in support and management ranging from desktop support and network system administration to executive management. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with honors from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Technology at the University of Missouri – Columbia, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. Downing’s research agenda includes the design, development, and implementation of enterprise knowledge management systems, computer supported collaborative work environments, and online constructivist learning environments.Charles Graham is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University with a focus on distance teaching and learning.He earned his doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University where he worked for the Center for Research on Learning and Technology and helped to helped to develop the Learning to Teach with Technology Studio, an online professional development environment for K-12 teachers. He has an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, where he helped to develop an asynchronous learning environment used in many undergraduate engineering courses.Lisa Hasler-Waters is an instructional designer who works as an independent contractor. Her current clients include the Center for Learning Technologies at Old Dominion University, and Distance Education Department of Tidewater Tech. She is helping her clients develop curriculum for online courses and traditional courses that are supported online. Additionally, Lisa is a partner in Virtual Team-building Solutions, a consulting firm that provides online solutions for virtual teams. She has presented on subjects of virtual teambuilding and online collaboration at various workshops and conferences, including most recently the Association for Communications and Educational Technologies (AECT) International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Lisa has also given workshops on Web design and development, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver and a variety of software applications. She received her Master’s degree in Educational Technology from the University of Hawaii.Cheryl Hausafus is an associate professor at Iowa State University. She has taught using various distance education formats for many years. Her interests include family and consumer sciences programming, educational technology, research methods, learner assessment, and leadership development.Thomas Head is Director of Instructional Services at Virginia Tech. He manages an academic technology support unit for the university that provides infrastructure support for distance and distributed learning. The unit also provides multimedia production facilities for faculty and students. Instructional Services also houses a faculty development initiative, which involves all 1500 faculty over a continuing four-year cycle in the implementation of instructional technology in their teaching. He has also taught graduate seminars on instructional graphics, and distance learning. His research interests include the application of Paivio’s two-process theory of verbal learning, the effects of graphic imagery on learning, and new paradigms for distance education. Head received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Creighton University, his master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota, and his doctorate, in instructional technology, from Indiana University. He has been in higher education for the past 37 years as an instructor of chemistry, and then as director of academic technology support units at Hamline University and Virginia Tech.John Kambutu is an assistant professor of education at the University of Wyoming/ Casper College Center. A native of Kenya, Kambutu was educated in Africa and the United States. His research centers on technology, distance learning, and diversity. Due to Kambutu’s deep passion for education, he was added in the Who’s Who Among American Teachers 2000 and 2002 editions. He was also recognized in “Warming up the Chill 2001” by students, the Jack P. “Jack” Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, and the University of Wyoming as an outstanding teacher who values diversity and creates a classroom climate that exemplifies thoughtfulness, mutual respect, and academic excellence.Barbara B. Lockee is an associate professor in the Instructional Technology graduate program at Virginia Tech. She teaches courses in distance education, training, and instructional design, as well as co-directs an off-campus IT Master’s program for professional educators. Her research interests focus on distance education evaluation and instructional design/development issues within distance learning environments.Joi L. Moore is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Moore received her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia in 1998, wherein her primary research interest was teachers’ use of an electronic performance support system (EPSS). Moore’s current research interests include the design and development of EPSSs, learning technologies, and Web-based learning environments. Moore teaches courses related Instructional Systems Design, Web Design and Development, Project Management, and Macromedia Director.Wallace Napier received his Master’s degree in Educational Technology (ETEC) from the University of Hawaii. He has participated and assisted in teaching several online courses as a part of the ETEC program requirements. Along with a colleague, he founded Virtual Teambuilding Solutions, a company committed to helping business and academic professionals optimize and organize their online team collaboration. VTB Solutions developed an online teambuilding instructional module that is currently being used by several public and private organizations including the University of Hawaii and the Ministry of Health in British Columbia, Canada. He has presented on subjects of virtual teambuilding and online collaboration at various workshops and conferences, including most recently the Association for Communications and Educational Technologies (AECT) International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Napier is presently pursuing his doctorate in Educational Foundations with an emphasis on online education.Kevin Oliver is an Instructional Designer and Evaluator with the Educational Technologies group at Virginia Tech, helping faculty design and develop technology-based materials for on- and off-campus courses, assisting with the preparation and investigation of technology-infused grants, conducting evaluations of university technology innovations, and providing teaching and materials support for the campus Faculty Development Institute (FDI). He is also adjunct faculty with the Department of Teaching & Learning at Virginia Tech and the new Projects Director with the SEIR-TEC Regional Technology in Education Consortium.Wilhelmina C. Savenye is an Associate Professor of Educational Technology in the Division of Psychology in Education at Arizona State University. Her research, teaching and development are in the areas of Web-based learning, distance learning, instructional design, evaluation, design of interactive multimedia, computer-based training, teaching and training with technology, and video. She regularly teaches fully Web-based online courses. She is the author of over 20 articles and has presented over 70 papers at national and international conferences. She serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for several educational technology journals. She has done wideranging work in instructional design, needs assessment and evaluation including: M-1 tank maintenance training for reserve soldiers, sales force training for a power company and for realtors; physical science and substance abuse education for high-school students, and visitor studies for museums, zoos and botanical gardens. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, and has earned a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and archaeology as well as an associate’s degree in media technology.Mary Simpson is a Doctoral Candidate in Adult Education at The Pennsylvania State University. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education in the College of Education at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.Penne L. Wilson is a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico and the program coordinator of the UNM Star Schools Evaluation Project. The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive formative and summative evaluation of Oklahoma State University’s Polaris, an online training program for middle school math and science teachers. She is also an adjunct professor in the teacher preparation program at the College of Santa Fe at Albuquerque, where she applies her 20-plus years of experience as a school administrator and classroom teacher. She has published articles with Charlotte N. Gunawardena and Ana C. Nolla about the effect of culture on computermediated conferencing and presented at AERA’02 in New Orleans as well as CATAC’02 in Montreal.David L. York is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri – Columbia in Instructional Technology. His varied research interests include media communication theory, computer mediated communication, distance learning, and new media development for education. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Missouri – Kansas City in Media Communication Theory. York is the Director of Educational Technology at the Pan-Educational Institute, a Kansas City non-profit educational organization. While managing a national Web-based MIS application for the organization, he also serves as an Instructional Technology consultant to various non-profits, charter and alternative schools, and school districts within the Kansas City metropolitan area.Fatemeh Zarghami serves as an Assistant Professor in the department of Child and Family studies at St. Cloud State University. She also serves as a program evaluator at St. Cloud State University for the federally-funded Rural Integration Technology Education projects. She received her B.S. degree in Child Psychology, M.S. degree in Educational Guidance and Counseling, and Ph.D. in Family Studies from Iowa State University. She has taught courses (through ITV and WebCt) in human development, child psychology, parenting education, adult education, measurement and evaluation, statistics, and educational research methods, at Alzahra University, William Penn University, and St. Cloud State University. Her dissertation focus was on distance education (Interactive Televised Education) as one of the most effective way of teaching and learning. Her research interests include application of technology in educational contexts, distance education, and program evaluation.

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