Angela Benson is an assistant professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research agenda addresses the empowering capabilities of technology in personal, business, and community settings. She is currently investigating the use of distance technologies in career and technical education as part of a grant funded by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) through the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE).
Zane L. Berge is an Associate Professor, Instructional Systems Development Graduate Program, at the University of Maryland System, UMBC campus. His scholarship in the field of computer-mediated communication and distance education includes numerous articles, chapters, workshops, and presentations. Books include a three volume set, Computer-Mediated Communication and the Online Classroom, that encompasses higher and distance education; a four volume set, Wired Together: Computer-Mediated Communication in the K-12 Classroom; with Schreiber, Distance Training: How Innovative Organizations are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives (Jossey-Bass, 1998), which was awarded the 1999 Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Publication by the University Continuing Education Association. Berge's newest book is Sustaining Distance Training: Integrating Learning Technologies into the Fabric of the Enterprise (Jossey-Bass, 2001). He consults internationally in distance education.
Dan O. Coldeway is professor of Educational Technology at Dakota State University and adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin's Master of Engineering Professional Practice program. Dan's research covers systems and theories in Distance Education, and distance learning design for adult and nontraditional populations.
Charlotte Webb Farr has been engaged in distance education for the last 15 years as the director of programs at the University of Wyoming and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has written numerous articles on the integration of technology in education and the preparation of faculty to teach at a distance. She has presented extensively both nationally and internationally and she frequently consults with universities and colleges as well as with government agencies. She is a former member of the Steering Committee the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications and served on the faculty of the WCET's Management of Distance Education Institute. In 1999, she received the Richard Jonsen Award for Service to the Educational Telecommunications Community presented by the WCET. Farr earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Wyoming where she taught research methodology, educational psychology, critical thinking, and tests and measurement. Her most recent research focuses on distance education, particularly the role of student-student interaction, faculty development and student-centered-learning.
Seungyeon Han is a Ph.D. candidate of Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia in Athens. Han's research interest focuses on computer support for collaborative learning, Web-based learning, and computer mediated communication and qualitative research. Currently, she is studying collaborative learning on the Web.
James Van Haneghan is a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Studies and Educational Technology at the University of South Alabama where he teaches courses in educational research methods and learning. His research interests include problem and project-based learning environments, children's mathematical thinking, the implementation of technological and pedagogical innovation, and the relationship between motivational and cognitive processes.
Mark Hawkes is Coordinator of Dakota State University's Graduate Program in Educational Technology. Mark has led and participated in a number of district and statewide evaluations of educational technology fueling his research interests in distributed education, the outcomes of educational technology application on student learning, and on teacher professional development.
Janette R. Hill is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia in Athens. A former reference librarian, Hill has concentrated her efforts during the last few years of her career on the creation of effective virtual learning environments. Her current research interests focus on resource use in open learning environments, community building, and technology integration.
Jennifer Lock is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Division of Educational Research at the University of Calgary. Her specialization is in the field of educational technology. She has been involved on both personal and professional levels with distance learning for a number of years. Her research interests are online learning communities and building capacity of online educators. Lock's doctoral research is designed to examine how the concept of community is developed, realized and sustained within virtual in-service teacher learning environments.
Lin Y. Muilenburg is a lecturer at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, teaching online graduate courses in instructional design and adult learning. Through her consulting work, she has developed and evaluated training programs for a variety of clients including international labor unions, major corporations and universities. Muilenburg also teaches high school at a charter school for independent study in California, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Alabama, pursuing a Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Development.
Arjan Raven is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His current research interests center around the management of knowledge, and learning and collaboration within virtual groups and communities of practice, with an emphasis on supporting technologies.
Steve Wheeler is Senior Lecturer in Distance Education and a researcher at the University of Plymouth, UK. He teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate teacher courses, and his research interests include telematic technology and e-learning, student support and individual differences in learning. Wheeler serves on a number of international scientific committees and on the editorial boards of four international academic journals.
