Brock Allen is codirector of the SDSU Center for Learning, Instruction, & Performance Technologies and emeritus professor of educational technology at SDSU, where he teaches graduate courses on educational product design and the psychology of technology-based learning. Allen has published more than 40 articles or book chapters on computer-based learning environments, interactive media, instructional design, and related topics.
Barbara A. Bichelmeyer is associate vice president for academic planning and associate professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University. Barbara's research, teaching and service focus on the areas of human performance improvement, instructional and program evaluation, instructional design, adult learning, and the integration of technologies in instructional environments. Barbara's grant-based research has recently focused on the study of distance learning environments in graduate education and blended learning environments in high schools and community colleges. Her recent service work has focused on evaluation of educational materials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Indiana Supreme Court Commission for Continuing Legal Education. Barbara has served as a consultant for the design, development and evaluation of education and training programs with organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Sprint, the United States Coast Guard and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Jeff Cain is the director of education technology for the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. His research interests are moral reasoning, instructional technology, online social networking, and health professions education.
Alison A. Carr-Chellman graduated in instructional systems technology from Indiana University under the direction of Charles Reigeluth with a focus on educational systems design. She has taught school, designed instruction for jet fighter pilots, and directed a tutoring center. She has been at Penn State's Instructional Systems program for about 16 years and is a professor with a focus on systems theory, diffusion of innovations, change theory, school change, and educational systems design. She teaches courses on instructional design, global e-learning, qualitative research, and research apprenticeships.
Yu-Hui Ching is a PhD candidate in instructional systems program at Penn State University. Her research interests include technology integration for effective teaching and learning, ill-structured problems solving, and self-regulated learning. At Penn State University, she has cotaught both face-to-face and online courses on instructional design and technology integration. She currently serves as a graduate consultant at Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State University. She holds a master's degree in TESOL from SUNY at Buffalo, and BBA of management information systems from National Central University, Taiwan.
Marisa E. Exter is a doctoral candidate in instructional systems technology at Indiana University. Her research interests include program design and program needs from the learners’ perspective, especially distance programs and those focused on adult learners. Her service experiences have focused on incorporating distance education students in program activities, and in professionalizing the department's student-run conference.
Nichole Harlin is a PhD student in the Instructional Systems Technology department at Indiana University. Her research is focused on online education programs (and the development of education programs in general) and the nature of design and design knowledge. Her teaching is focused on instructional design and development and software design. Her service is focused on integration of distance education students into departmental activities and software design.
Charles B. Hodges earned a PhD from the Instructional Design and Technology program at Virginia Tech in 2005 and is an assistant professor of instructional technology at Georgia Southern University. His research interests are self-efficacy and self-regulation in Web-based learning environments. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Southern, he was a member of the mathematics faculty at Virginia Tech, where he spent several years managing the Advanced Technology Learning Center.
Scott L. Howell is the director of evening classes for the Division of Continuing Education at Brigham Young University (BYU). He assisted BYU in launching its online learning and assessment initiative as director of the Center for Instructional Design (CID) and also served as director of BYU's external degree program and assistant director of the Department of Independent Study. He received his PhD in instructional science, MS in community education, and BS in business management; he is widely published in the areas of distance education, accreditation, and online assessment.
Yu-Chang Hsu is a PhD candidate in the instructional systems program at Penn State University. His research interests include Web 2.0 technology innovation in education, self-regulated learning in Web-based environments, self-regulatory processes in the integration of multiple external representations (MERs), and student success and retention in the STEM fields. At Penn State University, he has cotaught both face-to-face and online courses on technology integration and instructional design. He currently serves as the assessment coordinator for the NSF-funded TOYS ’n MORE (Toys and Mathematical Options for Retention in Engineering) project at the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs.
Haihong (Helen) Hu, PhD, is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Counseling, and Instructional Technology at the University of North Florida. Haihong is a graduate from the instructional systems PhD program of Florida State University. She received a BA in English language and literature in China, and an MS in instructional design from University of South Alabama. She taught English as a foreign language to college and adult learners and worked in business training area in China. Her research interests include learning strategies and distance learning.
Gail Humiston is a doctoral student in the College of Health and Public Affairs, Criminal Justice track, at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include corrections, victimology, juvenile justice, human rights, comparative justice, social inequalities and crime, gender and policing, evaluative research methods, and domestic violence.
Nilufer Korkmaz is a PhD student in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. She is teaching K-12 technology integration courses to preservice teachers. Her research has focused on instructional design education, interactions and communications in distance and blended learning environments, and evaluation of distance education programs.
Heng-Yu Ku is an associate professor in the Educational Technology Program, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Northern Colorado.
Mark A. Laumakis, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU). He also holds the position of faculty in residence in instructional technology services at SDSU. In April, 2008, he was the recipient of an SDSU top 25 award, given to members of the SDSU community who have made transformational contributions to the mission of the university, for his innovative uses of technology in his two 500-student sections of introductory psychology. He received his AB in psychology and sociology from Duke University and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California.
Cara E. Rabe-Hemp is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. She received her PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005. Her research interests include: autonomous learning and student engagement in the online classroom, gender and policing, small and rural policing, citizen perceptions of the police, and police deviance. Her recent publications have appeared in the Women and Criminal Justice, Police Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.
Jonathan P. Mathews is an assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a PhD in fuel science from The Pennsylvania State University and an applied chemistry BSc (Hons) degree from the Nottingham-Trent University, in England. He was an early adopter in online education and has reached over 5,000 students online, mostly to campus-based resident undergraduate students in the area of general education.
Robert A. Schuhmann is currently an associate professor and past director of the MPA program and former head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. His publications have appeared in Public Administration Review, Social Science Journal, the American Review of Public Administration, Administrative Theory and Praxis, Social Science Quarterly, and Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal.
Maria Schutt, EdD, is an instructional designer for the College of Extended Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU). She is also a lecturer in the Department of Educational Technology at SDSU, teaching an online graduate-level course in instructional design. She has also lectured at the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences at the University in San Diego and has taught graduate-level courses in instructional design, teaching with technology, distance education, and research methodology. She has previously worked as a teacher, online learning consultant, and as an instructional designer for a leading provider of curriculum-based software and Internet services. Schutt is passionate for designing instructional products and solutions that reach learners beyond borders.
Tracy A. Skopek is currently an assistant professor and director of the MPA program in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. She has published articles in the American Review of Public Administration and Politics and Policy. Her research interests are currently focused on Native American gaming.
Douglas C. Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky College of Education. His research interests include the roles of education technologists, gender equity, and computer based instruction.
Ling Sun is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at the Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hungwei Tseng is a recent graduate of the University of Northern Colorado in educational technology. His current research interests include the teamwork processes in collaborative learning, interactive learning environment, and multicultural studies.
Chien-Hsin Wang is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Recreational Sports Management at the National Taiwan College of Physical Education, Taichung, Taiwan.
Susan Woollen is assistant to the chairperson in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences and a doctoral student in educational administration and foundations at Illinois State University. Her research interests include the first year experience, student engagement and autonomy in the online classroom and leadership and shared governance in higher education organizations.
