Jeffrey Bohrer currently serves as a consultant in the Learning Technology and Distance Education group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, he was an instructional technology specialist at Dartmouth College. His primary areas of focus include course management system support and development, faculty training, and library/IT collaborations. Jeff holds a BS Ed and MA from the University of South Dakota
Steve Duncan, PhD, completed his master’s and PhD at the University of Arizona. He currently serves as the Director of Military Programs for East Carolina University (ECU) and is tenured in the College of Education. Duncan spent 32 years in government education and training spending his last 10 heavily engaged in bringing the Army’s Distance Learning Master Plan into being. Prior to joining the ECU, faculty Duncan was the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Training Support Center, Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Nick Eastmond has served as university faculty member in Instructional Technology for nearly three decades, teaching via distance education, to include travel to distant sites by plane, audio-graphic transmission, blended learning, and simultaneous video connections with multiple sites. His online graduate course on Educational Research was the recipient of the WebCT Exemplary Course Project Award in 2001. That course incorporates Guided Design simulations, streaming video, and requires students to demonstrate advanced thinking skills.
Marybeth Green is an Instructor for the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is responsible for teaching preservice teachers technical applications and integration of technology in curriculum. She is concurrently a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M. She retired from a 27 year career as a school librarian with experience in elementary and middle school. During her tenure as a school librarian, she served on numerous committees for the American Association of School Librarians including the committee responsible for creating Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. She has also served as the cochair of the 2001 AASL National Conference.
Charles B. Hodges has 15 years of experience with technology-based instruction. He earned mathematics degrees from Fairmont State College and West Virginia University. He is nearing the completion of a PhD in Instructional Technology at Virginia Tech. His research interests are self-efficacy and self-regulation in online learning environments. Currently, Charles is the manager of Virginia Tech’s Math Emporium.
Sha Li, EdD, assistant professor of instructional technology, P.O. Box 937, School of Education, Alabama A & M University, Normal, AL.
Daonian Liu, PhD, Web Services Administrator, Library & Technology Services, Alvernia College, Reading, PA.
Liu Jing (American version: Jing Liu) is a doctoral fellow for the School of Education at Regent University. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Henan University in China. Her academic background includes teaching Japanese, English as a Second Language, and Chinese literature at the university level. Her present research interests include distance education and both learner autonomy and technology in language learning.
Erol Ozcelik is a research assistant at the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Middle East Technical University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Cognitive Science program at the same university. His research interests include cognitive tools, individual differences in working memory capacity and graphical reasoning.
Alfred P. Rovai, PhD, is a professor of education at Regent University where he teaches courses in advanced research design, multivariate statistics, and assessment of student learning in a doctoral program using the
Blackboard e-learning system. His present research interests include school culture, gender and racial issues in the virtual classroom and student evaluation of teaching. He can be contacted via e-mail at alfrrov@regent.edu
Philip Schmidt earned a BS degree from Brooklyn College of CUNY; and MS and PhD degrees from Syracuse University in the fields of Mathematics and Mathematics, Education respectively. His areas of research interest include working with mathematically precocious children; adult learners in mathematics; and online mathematics pedagogy. He is the author of five mathematics texts, a number of successful grant initiatives, and many articles and conference presentations. Currently, he is working on a text entitled Mathematics for the Physics Student.
Mervyn J. Wighting, PhD, is an assistant professor of education at Regent University where he teaches online courses in research design to school administrators and classroom teachers using the Blackboard e-learning system. His present research interests focus on a variety of classroom community issues within the virtual learning environment.
Soner Yildirim is an associate professor of instructional technology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. His research interests include preservice teacher technology training, Web-based learning, online communities of practice, and online collaboration.
