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Zane Berge
UMBC (Baltimore), USA
Zane Berge is Associate Professor, and former Director, of Training Systems graduate programs at the University of Maryland (UMBC campus), USA. He teaches graduate courses involving training in the workplace and distance education. Prior to UMBC, Dr. Berge was founder and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. It was there that he first combined his background in educational technology and knowledge of scholarship to work in electronic scholarship, online journals, and moderated discussion lists. He also was involved in faculty development and technology-enhanced learning. Berge's publications include work as a primary author, editor, or presenter of 9 books, 90 chapters and articles and 60 conferences and invited speeches; he is currently co-editing a book on virtual high schools. Berge consults nationally and can be reached at berge@umbc.edu.


Kristen S. Betts
The George Washington University Washington, DC, USA
Kris Betts is President of Research Strategies International, a company assisting higher education institutions, public and private corporations and the US government to maximize opportunities and improve efficiency through customized research, training and strategic planning. Her work includes survey design, quantitative and qualitative research, curricula development, corporate training and environmental scans. Dr. Betts has served on several boards, including The George Washington University Board of Trustees and is Senior Vice President for Higher Education for Equation Research.

 


Mauri Collins
Old Dominion University, USA
Mauri Collins is an Instructional Designer with the Center for Learning Technologies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her duties include mentoring and coaching faculty as they become familiar with the tools available in online learning environments. She assists faculty in Business and Professional Communication to web-stream their courses. She maintains The Moderator's homepage at http://www.emoderators.com

 


Patricia Cravener
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Patricia Cravener is Assistant Professor and Director of Distance Education for the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington. She holds a doctoral degree in Higher and Post-Secondary Education, distance education cognate, from the University of Southern California, and has had students online since 1994. Her current university faculty development practice and consultative services focus on providing Web course design assistance to faculty and creating faculty development programs to extend instructors' knowledge base and technical skills to support excellent Web-based teaching. Research reports and publications are listed at http://www.cravener.net/.


Paul Cross
St Michael's Grammar School, Australia
Paul Cross is Dean of Co-curricular Activities and a teacher of Science and Geography at St Michael's Grammar School. He has taken a close interest in the effective educational use of notebook computers. His particular interests are in the richer uses of the new technologies for extending the range of research, thinking and presentation skills. (Co-author with David Nettlebeck)


Marlene French
RMIT University, Australia
Marlene French i
is senior liaison librarian working with the RMIT University Faculty of Business, the Chancellery and the University Library, offering extensive information literacy and skills education to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and to academics. Marlene also lectured in business information in the School of Business Information Technology and is Learning Technology Mentor for the Faculty; a new role aimed at assisting University staff with course review and renewal, particularly in an online environment. In 2002 she took her information literacy modules online by incorporating an online legal research module into the program being developed by the RMIT Faculty of Business as part of their online Bachelor of Commerce degree. Marlene's professional involvement in teaching and learning has also extended offshore, training staff from the Hue Learning Centre Vietnam, reporting on information services and resource provision and championing the information needs of international students.


Carol Fripp
AEShareNET, Australia
Carol Fripp is General Manager of AEShareNET and has over 25 years involvement in the Australian VET sector, from TAFE teacher through various organizational consultant and change agent roles into managing electronic service delivery options and e-commerce solutions in a rapidly changing environment. Carol has travelled widely over the last decade to keep current with new initiatives and innovations in the global marketplace. She has given several papers at national conferences through Australia and was Keynote Speaker at New Zealand eFEST2003. Her involvement with AEShareNet commenced in 1998 and continued through its evolution until appointed as inaugural Board Member in 1999 and subsequently moving into the role of General Manager in January 2002.


Ian Gibson
Wichita State University, USA
Ian Gibson is coordinator of the Educational Leadership programs at Wichita State University in the USA where he teaches Leadership, Technology and Research methods. He has received awards, honours and grants for publications and presentations on global learning, technology use and leadership and was recently invited to deliver a keynote address at Microsoft's Innovative Teacher's Forum in London. Ian is an external evaluator for the International Leadership in Educational Technology (ILET) project and the first elected president of the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE), a position he will assume in 2005.

PREPARING SCHOOL LEADERS FOR NEW-MILLENIUM GLOBAL LEARNING

 

Tony Gilding
James Cook University, Australia
Associate Professor Tony Gilding is Director (Teaching and Learning Development) at James Cook University. He leads the section within the Academic Support Division responsible for teaching and learning support, student equity and disability services and the administration of the University’s evaluation of teaching service. Before joining James Cook University, he worked at Monash University and Victoria University developing academic development programs, especially those in flexible learning. Prior to his career in academic development, he was a lecturer in Educational Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.


Lyn Gorman
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Lyn Gorman is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University. She has been involved with NSW HSC Online (http://hsc.csu.edu.au/) since 1996, initially as joint coordinator, with Paul Brown, Camden High School, of Ancient and Modern History for the project as well as, more recently, a member of the project's Board of Management, Project Management Group and Steering Committee.

 


Graeme Hart
Graeme is founding editor of Global Educator. He started his working life as a Professional Engineer before embarking on a career as a Mathematics & Science Teacher then as an academic at The University of Melbourne in Australia. He was the first person at the University to convert an entire undergraduate subject (Management Statistics) to web delivery in 1996 and was instrumental in a number of Virtual Education conferences helping to lead the way with mainstreaming the digital revolution at the university. Graeme also published and presented in his research area of online learning styles which led him to form the Online-Ed mailing list in the late 1990's, from which this article is derived and from which Global Educator evolved. He is a member of the Australian Society for Education Technology and The Royal Society of Victoria, the oldest Science Association in Australia.

VALUING VIRTUAL TIME


Monica Hill
University of Hong Kong
Dr. Monica Hill teaches academic and professional English courses at the University of Hong Kong. Her PhD research was on English vocabulary acquisition by Chinese learners and her other professional interests focus on the integration of IT in learning and the teaching of English for professional purposes. She has created several online courses at the University of Hong Kong, including Words on the Web and, with Anne Storey, SpeakEasy Oral Presentation Skills.


Paula Hodgson
Paula has worked on a range of e-learning projects funded by Hong Kong's University Grants Committee since 1997. She is currently managing the e3Learning project, which operates across three universities; the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Paula consults with clients to identify their needs and assist them in the design of action plans for integrating technology into their learning and teaching programs.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF A JOINT-UNIVERSITY E-LEARNING PROJECT (co-author with Paul Lam)


Peter Hosie
Edith Cowen University, Australia
Peter is an Instructional Designer with the Learning Development Services Centre at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Peter has published over 50 articles and reports on Technologically-Mediated Learning and Human Resource Development and is involved in the delivery, design and development of a wide range of innovative learning resources.

 


J. Lynley Hutton
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Lynley Hutton is a manager and lecturer in Information Systems in the School of Accounting, Finance and Law at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, where she has also been a trainer and instructional designer. Prior to this she worked in finance and commerce. She has also worked extensively in the area of adult literacy, creating and coordinating community programmes to foster the development of literacy skills. Lynley's research interests include open and distance learning, individual differences and the use of technology, and knowledge management.


Kinshuk
Massey University, New Zealand
Kinshuk is Associate Professor of Information Systems at Massey University in New Zealand where he directs the Advanced Learning Technology Research Centre. His research interests and involvements include adaptivity in e-learning and mobile learning. He has published over 100 research papers in international refereed journals, conferences and book chapters. He is currently chair of the IEEE Learning Technology Task Force, New Zealand chapter of ACM SIGCHI, and the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. He is also editor of 'Educational Technology & Society' journal and the Learning Technology Newsletter.


Alex Kuskis
University of Guelph, Canada
Alex Kuskis is Manager of Distance Education & Distance Education Learning Technologies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He is also an Associate Faculty member in the Masters Program in Distributed Learning at Royal
Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia. He recently worked as an e-Learning Consultant with Innovative Training Solutions and is completing his PhD in Online Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research interests include community in asynchronous online courses, facilitation techniques, collaborative learning, the "grammar" of online learning, and new knowledge media technologies.


Paul Lam
Paul is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in web-assisted teaching and learning and English language teaching. In his previous position at the City University of Hong Kong, Paul assisted teaching staff with student learning strategies and the use of the Web in their teaching and learning.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF A JOINT-UNIVERSITY E-LEARNING PROJECT (co-author with Paula Hodgson)

 

Judith Law
Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
With the Commonwealth of Learning, Judith acts as an institutional guide for a Word Bank portal initiative and a researcher/editor for the core site of the Global Distance Education Network. She has directed and implemented a number of education and international development programs in Southeast Asia and is keenly involved in e-learning as an online facilitator, instructional designer, e-tutor, education researcher and author of over a dozen e-learning broadcasts.


Mal Lee
Ed Direct, Australia
Mal Lee is the Managing Director of EdDirect, a company assisting schools to move into a networked mode. A writer, presenter, consultant and businessperson, Mal is centrally involved with The School Daily (http://www.TheSchoolDaily.com) and a director of the School Networking Consortium. A former director of schools, secondary college principal and a member of the Mayer Committee, Mal is closely associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schools and their communities. Mal has written extensively on school planning for the Information Age and the movement of schooling to a networked form.


Elyssebeth Leigh
Sydney University of Technology, Australia
Elyssebeth Leigh lectures in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is Immediate Past President of the International Simulations and Gaming Association (ISAGA) and is on the Board of the North American Simulations and Gaming Association (NASAGA). Elisabeth's research interests focus on the design and use of simulations, and on action learning programs for creating productive organisational change. Her first book presented Australian designs for experiential learning ("Learning through Fun and Games" Leigh and Kinder, McGraw Hill 1999).

 


Karelena MacKinlay
Glenrothes College of Further Education, Scotland
Karelena MacKinlay is a senior lecturer at the Glenrothes College of Further Education in Fife, Scotland. Last year she examined 'email as a tool to support the learning process', a research project co-sponsored by the Scottish Further Education Unit (http://www.sfeu.ac.uk) and the University of the Highlands and Islands (http://www.uhi.ac.uk). In her cross-college role she has more recently been supporting tutors who are undertaking a new course - ' An Introduction to Providing Online Support to Learners', which is part of a European funded project (http://www.sln.co.uk).


Mary Anne Mather
Brown University, USA
Mary Anne Mather leads The Knowledge Loom (http://knowledgeloom.org), a searchable database of research-based best practices resources for K-12 educators, along with interactive tools for collegial sharing. Prior to this, she served as National Programs and Special Projects Coordinator for Co-nect Schools, an assistance organization for comprehensive school reform recognized by the New American Schools Corporation. At Co-nect, she coordinated and lead a nationwide 'Critical Friends Program', developed online professional development materials, and delivered workshops and training to K-12 educators focused on project-based learning. Prior to Co-nect, Mary Anne conceptualized, developed and managed The EducatorConnection, an interactive learning community within Apple Computer's online service-eWorld.


Carmel McNaught
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carmel McNaught is Professor of Learning Enhancement at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her previous appointment was as Head of Professional Development in Learning Technology Services at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Carmel has 30 years experience in teaching and research in higher education, and has worked in eight universities in Australasia and southern Africa in the discipline areas of chemistry, science education, second language learning and higher education. Her current research interests include evaluation of innovation in higher education and understanding the broader implementation of the use of technology in higher education. She has over 180 academic publications.


Gavin Moodie
Griffith University, Australia
Gavin began his career in tertiary education administration in 1975 in the University of Melbourne's engineering faculty office. More recently, he worked at Monash University where he helped establish Open Learning Australia. Gavin is currently policy advisor to Griffith University in Australia. Gavin was joint editor, with Vin Massaro, of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (http://www.carfax.co.uk/jhe-ad.htm) and has a regular column in the Australian newspaper Higher Education Supplement.


David Nettelbeck
Whitefriars College, Australia
David Nettelbeck conducts workshops in schools across Australia for primary and secondary teachers interested in using computers as a rich teaching, learning and thinking tool. He teaches English part time at Whitefriars College and was formerly Director of Staff Professional Development and Head of English at St Michael's Grammar School in Melbourne. Prior to this, David was involved in teacher training in Tanzania as well as being Headmaster of two International Schools there. He has a particular interest in the implications of new technologies for teaching and learning processes across the curriculum. He believes that all subjects are being transformed by digital literacies with access to vastly increased and up-to-date resources, mixed media and the opportunity to work in a paperless environment. This inevitably brings new challenges for classroom discipline and organisation and a new paradigm for teaching and learning.


Veronica Pantelidis
East Carolina University, USA
Dr. Veronica Pantelidis is School of Education Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina USA. She teaches graduate courses on virtual reality, virtual reality and education, computers in education, instructional technology, and World Wide Web use, among other courses, all online (http//www.soe.ecu.edu/vr/vrel.htm) She has taught fulltime online since January 1998. She is co-director of the Virtual Reality and Education Laboratory and co-editor of the journal, 'VR in the Schools' and was moderator of the Virtual Reality and Secondary Education section of the first Virtual Reality and Education Conference held in England in June 1997. Her current research interests are on the use of collaborative virtual environments in online courses, and on how to effectively teach graphics-intensive courses, like those on virtual reality,online.


Anita Pincas
Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Anita Pincas is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of London;
Visiting Fellow at the University of Westminster and former Director of
Pedagogy for the Virtual Learning Development Trust (UK). She has been a
specialist in pedagogy at the University of London for 30 years with a
long-term focus on online learning and English language teaching, and was
one of the earliest users of the Internet for educational purposes. At
London University, she started the world's first online MA TESOL in 1993,
and her international multi-lingual and multi-cultural Online Education &
Training course has pioneered innovative e-learning approaches since 1992.
She is currently also engaged in various educational research projects,
covering blended e-learning, the use of CHAT and mobile devices. Her most recent publication is Teaching on line on campus (2003, Learning Partners, UK; with Gunter Saunders.)


Gerard A. Prendergast
Abacus Learning Systems, UK
Gerard Prendergast is Training Director of Abacus Learning Systems based in the UK. He has over ten years experience of introducing Computer Mediated Learning in national and international organizations and has successfully designed, planned and delivered many online training programmes. He has led workshops and delivered papers on the subject for universities, government bodies and non-academic institutions in and outside Great Britain. Gerard has been visiting lecturer at the Open University and the Institute of Education, University of London, and advisor to the Management Institute at Ulster University and held various workshops on e-Learning, the most Recent at The Croatian Academic and Research Network and with the John M. Campbell & Company, a training company specialising in the global oil and Gas Industry.


Paul Quinnett
Paul is a clinical psychologist and President of the QPR Institute, an educational organization dedicated to preventing suicide. Author of seven books and an award-winning journalist, he is also Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington and the current Editor-in-Chief of the USA Journal, 'Preventing Suicide'. In addition to directing a large, public sector mental health program for 30 years, he maintained a limited private practice in psychotherapy, law enforcement and corporate consulting.

Paul has donated the electronic version of his best-selling book, 'Suicide: the Forever Decision', in both English and French versions. Translators are being sought for free e-versions in other languages.

GLOBAL SUICIDE-PREVENTION EDUCATION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS


Alison Reynolds
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Alison Reynolds is the Programme Leader for the School of Communication at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand. She has established an online Graduate Diploma of Technical Communication that has been running successfully for five years. Recently she has visited online campuses in the United States and China and has undertaken research into online communities. Alison has completed the 'Online Education and Training' Course through the Institute of Education, London University.


David Rich, Peter Love and Maree Gosper
Macquarie University, Australia
David Rich is Director of the Centre and a Geographer by background. He has been developing and experimenting with computer-assisted methods of teaching and learning since the early 1990s. He is Chair of NCODE-Flexible Learning Australia. Peter Love is Director of New Learning Technologies in the Centre and has been developing Web-based teaching materials since 1994. He has been using WebCT since 1996 and more recently established the central online teaching facility for Macquarie University incorporating WebCT. Maree Gosper is Head of Educational Services in the Centre and her main role is in the design and evaluation of teaching programs for the online environment, as well as the provision of staff and student support necessary for the successful implementation of online teaching.


Glyn Rimmington
Wichita State University in Kansas, USA
Glyn Rimmington is the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Global learning at Wichita State University in Kansas. He is leading a program to integrate Global Learning into all areas of the curriculum.. Before taking up this appointment, he was a senior member of faculty at the University of Melbourne in Australia. A central theme of his research has been systems modelling and he also applied this to many topics including education. Glyn's courses were among the first to take advantage of the Web and incorporate student web publishing. In 1996 he began incorporating global learning into his courses and graduate seminars with audiographics and video conferencing.


Glenn Russell
Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
Glenn Russell taught in country and suburban schools in Victoria Australia for nearly twenty years before becoming foundation lecturer in Computer Education at Griffith University, where he developed undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Russell lectures in the Faculty of Education at Monash University and has an international reputation in virtual schooling, cyberspace, and educational uses of hypertext. His current research involves ethical uses of information and communications technology in school education, educational futures in globalised environments and responsibilities in online schools.

 


Christel Schneider
Landesverband der Volkshochschulen, Germany

Christel is head of the language department for the Landesverband der Volkshochschulen Schleswig-Holsteins, an umbrella organisation of 170 adult education centres in Schleswig-Holstein. She has over six years experience of introducing Computer Mediated Language Learning in national and international organizations and has successfully designed, planned and delivered many online training programmes.


Michelle Selinger
University of Warwick, UK/Cisco Systems
Dr Michelle Selinger was appointed as an Education Specialist to Cisco Systems in January 2001 from the University of Warwick, UK where she directed the Centre for Research in New Technologies in Education. She currently advises on e-learning initiatives and e-learning models within ICT environments and has completed an internal evaluation of the Cisco Networking Academy Program in eleven countries within Europe Middle East and Africa. She has published widely in ICT in education and has advised and supported e-learning programmes at all levels of education both in the UK and internationally. Her research focuses on the pedagogy of e-learning and how technology can be successfully integrated into teaching and support the development of teachers' and trainers' practice.

Clifton Smith
Edith Cowen University, Australia
Clifton is Associate Professor in Security Science at the School of Engineering and Mathematics, Edith Cowan University. Clifton conducts research in ballistics imaging, IT security, biometric imaging and security education. He has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 'Kentucky Award' for contribution to security education and the Australian Security Industry Association national award for contribution to Security education.

 


David Vinciguerra
East Carolina University, USA
David Vinciguerra is coordinator of the Virtual Reality and Education Laboratory and instructor in virtual reality at the College of Education at East Carolina University, Greenville, USA. He teaches all his courses completely online, including Introduction to Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality in Education. David also serves as an instructional design consultant for the Department of Librarianship, Educational Technology and Distance Instruction. His research interests include the design and use of collaborative virtual environments and he utilizes online multimedia communication technologies in the teaching of graphic-intensive courses online.

THE DESKTOP VIRTUAL REALITY GALLERY: SHARING STUDENT ENVIRONMENTS ONLINE


Leone Wheeler
RMIT University, Australia
Leone Wheeler is Manager, Regional Learning Networks, Community Services/Regional Partnerships, Research and Development at RMIT University. A major part of Leone's work involves the development of RMIT Learning Partnerships which involved the establishment of a network of community based access points in metropolitan Melbourne for the delivery of online training, supported by local staff. Leone is working to integrate this learning network model into the University regionality and internationalisation strategies. She has extensive experience as a project manager in a number of projects involving learning technologies at a State and National level.


Michael Zastrocky
GartnerGroup
Dr. Zastrocky has more than 30 years of diverse experience in higher education. Before joining GartnerGroup, where he is currently Vice President and Research Director Academic Strategies, he was a faculty member at several universities, assistant dean, chief information officer, and served as vice president of CAUSE, the international association for managing and using information resources in higher education from 1989-1995. He has served as a consultant for a number of colleges and universities and was a vice president of the Kaludis Consulting Group. He has delivered many keynote addresses around the globe and has served as a faculty member for numerous institutes and seminars. He has been widely published on a variety of technology planning and management topics. He is also a trustee for several higher education institutions. Bachelor’s degree from Regis University, master’s degree from the University of Denver, and a doctor of education degree from the University of Northern Colorado.


 

 
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