speakers
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Peter Shea is a member of the faculty of the Department of Educational Theory and Practice and the College of Computing and Information at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Previously he served as the Director of the SUNY Learning Network, the online educational program for the colleges and universities of SUNY, and as the manager of the university system’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program. He is currently principal investigator for a Sloan Foundation grant, investigating learning environments that blend classroom and online instruction. He has also worked extensively with the Sloan Consortium and published original research in the Sloan-C series of monographs on quality online learning. He co-author of “The Successful Distance Learner” and his research has appeared in The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, The Journal of Educational Computing Research, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, The Journal of Online Teaching, Computers and Education, and The Internet and Higher Education as well as the books “Learning Together Online”, and “Learner Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education” both published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Since 1994, Clark Shah-Nelson has developed, designed, taught, and coordinated distance and online learning progams. He is currently Coordinator of Online Instruction at SUNY Delhi in the Catskills of New York, where he oversees strategic planning, faculty and policy development, as well as instructional design of online courses. Other current projects include working with a small team on a grant with the SUNY Center for Online International Learning (COIL) with the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. Past awards include a 2006 Excellence in Online Teaching award and his German learning videos from MyGermanClass.com were one of the top 100 People’s Choice Video Podcasts from Apple’s iTunes. He was a featured presenter at the New Media Consortium’s 2007 Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video and has recently presented at SLOAN-C ALN, Educause’s NERCOMP, and the SUNY CIT and COIL Center Conferences. Prior to his move to New York, he spent over seven years teaching online German for Colorado Online Learning, and seven years building the Denver Public Schools’ Distance Learning Network. He has a Master’s in Instructional Technology from the University of Colorado. If you have some time to kill, check out clarkshahnelson.com
http://www.delhi.edu/online
Skype/IM: clarkshahnelson
Second Life: Clark Sakai
http://twitter.com/clarkshahnelson
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Alex Reid is an associate professor of English and the director of the Professional Writing program at the State University of New York College at Cortland where he researches and teaches in the areas of rhetoric and new media studies. His research has appeared in journals such as Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, Culture Machine, and Theory & Event. His book, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition, received an honorable mention for Best Book in Composition Theory in 2007, and he has co-edited an essay collection, Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Professional Writing Programs, which will be published later this year. He also maintains a blog called Digital Digs, which won the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award in 2008 for scholarly contributions to the field of rhetoric and composition.
IM: profalexreid
SL: Alex Asylum
http://alex-reid.net
http://digitalage.ning.com
http://thedigitalage.pbwiki.com
http://twitter.com/digitaldigs
http://friendfeed.com/alexreid
http://digitaldigs.jaiku.com
http://seesmic.com/AlexReid
http://neovox.cortland.edu
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Carol McQuiggan manages the Faculty Center for Teaching & Instructional
Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. She has designed and implemented
various faculty development programs, including a highly successful
support structure for adjunct faculty. As her campus becomes involved in
developing online courses, it is her responsibility to prepare her
faculty to be successful online instructors.
Carol Anne McQuiggan
Penn State World Campus
cam240@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/cam240/
http://twitter.com/carolmcquig
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Lawrence C. Ragan, Director of Faculty Development for Penn State World Campus, is charged with directing the design and development of systems and services to meet the professional training needs of the online and blended educator. Dr. Ragan has taught in the online classroom for nine years and has experience with integrating a wide range of electronic media technologies into the instructional process in order to create dynamic, student-centered learning systems. Dr. Ragan is a frequent workshop coordinator and has presented internationally on the topics of instructional design, multimedia development, faculty development issues and instructional design for distance education. Dr. Ragan has also served as the co-director of the EDUCAUSE Institute for Learning Technologies Leadership Program.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/lcr1
http://twitter.com/lcr1
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An active participant of online communities for over 15 years, Shannon Ritter is passionate about using technology to build community and connect online students. A resident of Second Life since 2004, Shannon has used this virtual environment to create spaces designed for interaction and connection. Shannon currently works as the Social Networks Adviser for Penn State World Campus and is responsible for designing and managing their Second Life space, Facebook page, twitter account, YouTube videos and LinkedIn group.
shannon@psu.edu
worldcampus@psu.edu
http://www.mediacupcake.com
http://twitter.com/micala/
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Academically, Kevin Lim’s present research topic is on Internet Censorship of China, where he studies the conflict for cyber-soveriengty between the Chinese government and the citizens. His earlier work has included the study of online spam, as well as online social capital among non-profit organizations. He aims to complete his doctoral program in Communication by Summer 2009.
Professionally, Kevin assists UB faculty with technology-related solutions relating to their pedagogical objectives. He also organizes social web related workshops and produced user guides at the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC), located in the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
He has also conducted undergraduate classes where blogs were used in a multiplayer environment, based on Amy Jo Kim’s Games Mechanics theory: http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2345
Personally, Kevin blogs widely on the technological extensions of self and society, and is naturally curious about the synthesis of reality and virtuality. You might find him with wearable cameras for recording and broadcasting segments of his life. This allows friends and family to partake in his experiences, as well as to serve as a form of personal memory prosthetic, giving him the ability to never forget: http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2373
Kevin Lim can be intimately reached via twitter @brainopera as well as his blog at http://theory.isthereason.com
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Raylean Henry is the interim Executive Director of the Regents Online Campus Collaborative (ROCC). Her primary responsibilities include the coordination of central operations for all ROCC programs.
Before coming to the Regents Online Campus Collaborative, Dr. Henry was the Director of Continuing Education at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was responsible for directing a program that offered non-credit courses to the Nashville community both on-campus and on-site at local business and industry.
Dr. Henry’s previous experiences include numerous positions as training director in various companies in the Nashville area for over fifteen years.
Dr. Henry received her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Palm Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach, Florida. She completed a Masters in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a concentration in Adult Education. Dr. Henry received her Doctorate of Education from Tennessee State University with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction.
Regents Online Campus Collaborative
Tennessee State University
ralylean.henry@tbr.edu
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Janet May serves as Associate Director for Evaluation and Senior Program Manager at Penn State World Campus. As Associate Director for Evaluation, she is responsible for developing and implementing end-of-course surveys for hundreds of World Campus courses, as well as customized surveys that explore customer satisfaction at multiple stages of student interaction with the World Campus. In addition to implementing surveys, Janet is responsible for providing summary reports to hundreds of World Campus stakeholders each semester. As Associate Director for Evaluation, Janet has taken the lead in using the e-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) at Penn State World Campus to assess processes used in the design, development, and deployment of online courses and programs.
Her program management responsibilities include managing the portfolio of courses and programs offered in conjunction with the College of Science, the College of Earth and Mineral Science, and the inter-college iMBA degree. She taught mathematics for 14 years at Penn State DuBois before joining the World Campus. Additional professional interests include how technology can be used to enhance mathematics education.
Penn State World Campus
jam11@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jam11/
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Richard Garrett leads Eduventures Online Higher Education (OHE) Learning Collaborative, a membership program for institutions seeking to grow their online enrollment and enhance their online operations. Under Richard’s leadership, the OHE program has become a unique source of intelligence on online higher education enrollment and programming trends, evolving consumer demand, and school positioning and operational strategies, both in the U.S. and internationally. Richard has over twelve year’s experience researching higher education trends worldwide, particularly online learning, internationalization and commercial activity. Prior to joining Eduventures in 2005, Richard was Deputy Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education in the United Kingdom, a position he held from 2001 to 2005. Publications include Online Higher Education Market Update 2008 (Eduventures, 2008), Competing in Online Higher Education 2008 (Eduventures, 2008), Online Higher Education: Retention Benchmarks and Strategies (Eduventures, 2007), E-Learning in Tertiary Education- where do we stand? (a 2005 book commissioned by the OECD, Paris) and The Global Education Index 2005 (a study of 50 firms worldwide operating in the postsecondary education market, OBHE, 2005). Richard is widely quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Richard has also worked as a researcher in the School Education University Surrey and at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, both in the United Kingdom. Richard earned both a BA and an MA from King’s College, University of London, as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from the University of Cambridge.
http://www.eduventures.com/
http://www.eduventures.com/lc/online-higher-education
http://www.eduventures.com/about/people/analysts-and-staff/analysts_staff#rg
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