Cheryl Burton is currently a computing officer at the University of Plymouth. She designs, writes, delivers and maintains IT staff development training courses. She works with teaching departments putting tutorials on the Web for them using MTutor. Her background as a lecturer at the Plymouth College of Further Education, in Computing and Mathematics and as a schoolteacher in Mathematics has given her a thorough grounding in pedagogic practice. Her M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems thesis developed a method of computer tracking concept formation in engineering designers. This was to form the basis of MTutor, which has been developed with Culverhouse.
Kursat Cagiltay is a doctoral candidate in the departments of both cognitive science and instructional systems technology at Indiana University. His research focuses on distance teaching and learning, visual design, electronic performance support system, and cultural aspects of technology. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He has worked as a project manager to establish the Turkish gateway to the Internet and he is currently technical manager of Turkish Internet top level domain, .tr. He has developed a distance-learning environment for graduate students in Turkey.
Tony Cawthon has over 15 years in student affairs as an administrator and currently as a faculty member. He is in his sixth year as a student affairs preparation program faculty member at Clemson University. Prior to his faculty position, he served in University Housing at several institutions. Cawthon has published numerous articles, is active in NASPA, ACPA, and ACUHO-I, and is strongly interested in the impact of technology on teaching and student learning.
Phil Culverhouse has been at the University of Plymouth since 1984. He is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Intelligent Systems in the Department of Communications & Electronics Engineering. He researches real-world problem solving and how to convert novices to experts. Since 1994 he has been developing tools to assist problem-solving skill development in learners. He has a background in biological science, experimental psychology, and electronics engineering. He lectures in electronics and computer engineering and artificial intelligence at the University.
Peter J. Dean II has been a Senior Fellow, The Wharton Ethics Program, Department of Legal Studies, The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, and is a tenured Associate Professor, Physician Executive MBA Program at The University of Tennessee. He has been an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization in the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State University, and an Assistant Professor and Regional Coordinator of Instructional Systems (Training Design and Development) at Penn State. Dean received his Ph.D. and subsequently taught at the University of Iowa. The graduate courses he has taught include: Business Ethics, Managerial Communication and Presentation Skills, Organizational Change Leadership, Systems of HRD, Performance Engineering and Technology, and Organization Learning, Educational Psychology, and Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies. He was the recipient of the 1993 Excellence in Teaching Award at Penn State University at Great Valley, the 1995 MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Teaching Award, the 1998 Excellence in Teaching Award for Undergraduates at The Wharton School and the 1999 Outstanding Faculty Award for the Physician Executive MBA program at the University of Tennessee. He has published in The Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Performance Improvement Journal, and The Australian Journal of Educational Technology, and is the current Editor of Performance Improvement Quarterly. He has edited the book Performance Engineering at Work, co-authored an instructional manual for the book Managing Business Ethics, co-edited five books on Performance Improvement Models, Methods and Measures, and co-edited the book The Business of Medicine: What Every Physician Leader Needs to Know. In 2001 he co-authored the book Philosophy and Practice of Organizational Learning, Performance and Change. For Post-Doctorate experience from 1984 to 1986, he supervised Management Development at Rockwell International Corporation. He has consulted for DuPont, Unisys, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer Inc., Lockheed-Martin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Security Agency, Sprint MidAtlantic, PECO Energy, General Motors, Motorola University, and Holiday Inn. Dean has worked in Europe and Asia and has lectured in Switzerland, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Norway, Australia, Germany, and Canada.
Renee Drabier is the chief technology officer and director of information technology services at the University of Southern Colorado, a position she accepted three years ago after serving as the director of telecommunication services, Office of Educational Resources, at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio for over a decade. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University with a focus in educational technology and distance learning. She has recently been named interim director for continuing education at the University of Southern Colorado.
Christopher Essex is a doctoral candidate in the Instructional Systems Technology program at Indiana University. He has worked as Distance Education Specialist for the IU School of Education since 1994. He teaches an online course for IU, Education W505: Using the Internet in the K-12 Classroom. He has been awarded two Jerrold E. Kemp IST Fellowships for his research efforts, and has made numerous conference presentations on topics related to distance education and using technology in postsecondary and K-12 education. He has published articles in TechTrends and Educational Technology magazines.
Sharon Hatton-Montoya is currently the Associate Director of the University of Southern Colorado Learning Center, where her main areas of responsibility are supervising the Disability Resource Office and running the Writing Room (USC’s writing center). Before accepting this position, she served as the Writing Room Coordinator for six years. She is a member of the National Writing Centers Association and National Council of Teachers of English. She piloted the Writing Room’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) in 1998. The OWL currently averages approximately 1,000 sessions a year. Hatton-Montoya received her B.A. in English from the University of Southern Colorado, and her M.A. in Curriculum Development and Educational Leadership (expected August 2001) from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
Pamela Havice has over 10 years of experience in developing distance education and innovative learning opportunities for professionals in health, teacher education, and in higher education. In the past, she has conducted professional development training for several professional organizations and institutions. She is currently an assistant professor in Counseling Education at Clemson University where she is developing a distributed learning environment for the Counseling program.
Kevin P. Jackson is the director of student activities at Texas A&M University—a position he accepted after serving as a special assistant for distributed student services to the vice president for student affairs. He has a Ph.D. in Educational Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University with a research focus in providing student support services to distance learners in higher education. In addition to administering a department that specializes in the use of on-line support services, he conducts seminars on the use of distributed student services and serves as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M.
Karen Kaminski has worked in the field of instructional design and distance learning for more than ten years. Prior to her work as an instructional designer, she was involved in computer and networking support for the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and then the University of Wyoming. Her second career began as an instructional designer for the School of Extended Studies at the University of Wyoming and continued as a curriculum developer for high school students in the Upward Bound Math Science Initiative at the University of Wyoming. Later, Kaminski served as Director of Distance Learning and Instructional Technology at the University of Northern Colorado. Now at Colorado State University, she is the Assistant Director/Coordinator of Instructional Design for the Office of Instructional Services and an instructor for the master’s program in adult education and training offered through the School of Education. The courses she teaches, Program Plan- ning/Instructional Design and Communications and Multimedia Technologies, are offered fully online to distance students. Kaminski is involved in conference program planning and a reader of proposals for the Association of Educational Communications and Technology, WebCT, and the International Visual Literacy Association. She is a reviewer for IJET, editor of five journal articles and has made numerous presentations at regional, national, and international conferences.
Joan Mazur is an associate professor in the Instructional Systems Design and Technology Program at the University of Kentucky. Research interests include distributed collaborative systems, learning in new virtual environments, and narrative and qualitative research.
William D. Milheim began his administrative career in higher education as the Supervisor of Equipment Services in the College of Education at Kent State University. Upon completion of his doctoral degree, he accepted a faculty position at Bloomsburg University where he became the Assistant Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies. He next accepted a faculty position at Penn State Great Valley, serving as Regional Coordinator of the Instructional Systems program, as the Overall Coordinator for all of the College of Education programs, and as the Academic Division Head for Education. Milheim accepted his current role as Campus Executive Officer and Associate Dean at Penn State Great Valley in July 2000 after serving as the acting head of the campus for the previous year. Milheim has published 40 journal articles (25 of them refereed), an edited book, and 6 book chapters related to the design, development, and utilization of instructional technology. He has also worked on a number of grants including an equipment grant funded for over $100,000 and has more than 100 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences.
Christopher Miller is an instructor in the Department of Elementary, Reading, and Special Education at Morehead State University. He is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky in the Instructional Systems Design Program. His research interests include Web-based instruction, creativity, and teacher technology training.
Jillian A. Peat is a doctoral student in the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee.
Landra Rezabek began her career in higher education as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Education Foundations and Instructional Technology for the College of Education at the University of Wyoming. She left Wyoming for two years to fill the position of Assistant Professor for the Department of Educational Research at Florida State University. Since returning to the University of Wyoming in 1993, she has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Adult Learning and Technology in the College of Education, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses. She has more than 60 refereed papers from international, national, and regional conferences, and more than 60 invited presentations. She has numerous edited books and book chapters pertaining to the areas of distance learning and teaching effectively with technology. Rezabek has directed or co-directed eight conferences including the national Association for Educational Communications and Technology leadership conferences.
Kimberley D. Ryan-Nicholls, a member of the first graduating class of the M.D.E. program offered by Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada, is an Assistant Professor at Brandon University, School of Health Studies. Ryan-Nicholls taught from 1986-1995 at the Center for Psychiatric Nursing Education (C.P.N.E.) in its two-year diploma program for psychiatric nursing. She currently teaches the following courses: Acute Mental Health Challenges I & II and Professional Issues for R.P.N.s and R.N.s. Areas of research interest include: structuring interactive learning environments at a distance, preceptorship of undergraduate psychiatric nursing students at a distance, health determinants of rural populations, mental health of rural populations, and ongoing continuing competence of Registered Psychiatric Nurses.
Michael J. Stahl received his Ph.D. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently Director of the PEMBA Program, and Distinguished Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee. He teaches strategy and business planning in PEMBA and in the full-time MBA program. Professional work experience includes program manager on the design and development of a communications satellite at the Space and Missile Systems Organization in Los Angeles, Head of the Management Department at Clemson University, and Associate Dean in the College of Business at UT. Stahl has published over 50 journal articles in a variety of areas including Strategic Management and Total Quality Management, and twelve books, including Competing Globally Through Customer Value, Strategic Management: Total Quality and Global Competition, and The Physician’s Essential MBA. He has worked with a number of organizations concerning strategy, managed care, and TQM. He served a three- year term on the Board of Directors of the Florence Crittenton Agency and chaired the board’s development committee. Stahl is a board member for Catholic Charities of East Tennessee. He serves on the board’s development committee. He is on the board of CyberCE.net, a distance education company that focuses on the health care industry.
David L. Sylwester is Professor of Statistics at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to his present position, he was director of the statistics program at the University of Vermont. His teaching interests include both applied and theoretical statistics, stochastic processes, biostatistics, and statistical quality control. His research interests include statistical methodology, analysis of multivariate count data, and biostatistics. Sylwester has published numerous articles in statistics and biostatistics and has consulted with such organizations as IBM, NIH, EPA, Abbott Laboratories, and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Company. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the A.S.A. Dr. Sylwester received his Master of Science in Mathematics from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University.
Lemuel W. Watson, an Associate Professor of Higher Education, is a native of South Carolina, with a B.S. in Business from the University of South Carolina, M.A. from Ball State University, and Ed.D. from Indiana University. He is a certified training consultant and certified systems engineer. His career spans various divisions in higher education, faculty and administration, and he has experience in all types of institutions, including two-year college and four-year institutions, public and private. His research agenda includes issues of educational outcomes; faculty development issues; and social and political issues that affect schools, community, and families with regards to advancement in a capitalist society.
