Lynn Aaron is an Associate Professor of Computer Studies at SUNY Rockland Community College. She holds an M.S. degree in Educational Technology from Iona College and an M.A. from Columbia University in Speech & Language Pathology. She also serves as the Faculty Technology Resource Person for the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. She is the MERLOT Information Technology discipline Portal Editor and a reviewer for the MERLOT Journal of Online Teaching & Learning (JOLT).

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Research Documentation Made Easy

Hussein Abaza is an assistant professor at Southern polytechnic State University, He has more than 18 years of professional and academic experience, and published two books and more than 20 journal and conference papers in teaching CAD, building simulation, and energy conservation ion buildings.

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Multi-Media Interactive Self-Directed CAD Applications Learning Modules for the Construction Management Students

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Reimbursement for Athletic Training Educators Through a Distance Education Model

Diane Aldis coordinates statewide professional development programs in dance, interdisciplinary work, and distance learning initiatives at the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota. Her work in arts education has been strongly shaped by her dual perspectives as a performing artist, and as an educator in K-12 and higher education settings. Ms. Aldis holds K-12 Dance & Theater Licensure, and was appointed as an External Examiner for the International Baccalaureate Dance Program in 2003.

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An Artful Process for Using, Developing, and Revising Learning Objects Long Distance Learning In and Through the Arts: A Case Story from Austin, Minnesota

Radwan Ali - PhD Assistant Professor - Business Information Systems Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA

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Web 2.0 in Higher Education

Dr. Siri Anderson teaches in a hybrid online teacher education program. She previously initiated and led a successful digital divide crossing program for the Hopkins School District where she began using online learning with middle school students ten years ago. She has spent considerable time teaching and learning around the world and last year served as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the Minnesota International Middle School serving primarily East African students.

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Beginning with the End in Mind: Using Evaluation Rubrics Tied to State Standards and the eFolio in Wikis and Google Docs

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Noyce Scholars and MERLOT: Helping Science and Math Teachers in Training Success in High Need Schools Noyce Scholars and MERLOT: Helping Science and Math Teachers in Training Success in High Need Schools

Dr. Moses Atezah Associate Professor of Education, he obtained a PhD in educational technology from Southern University at Carbondale, Illinois in USA in 1991. He is currently with the regional office of the at the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa in Bamako where he is Research Program Manager for the Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), a project sponsored by IDRC. He was formally a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Yaoundé, Cameroon, where he taught causes in educational technology and methods of evaluation. He has participated in numerous ICT conferences and methods workshops.

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Design and Deployment of Sustainable E-Learning Solutions Adapted to an African Context

Assistant Professor of Math at Northwestern State University Primary teaching areas include college algebra, developmental math and statistics PhD from Louisiana State University in Vocational Education with emphasis in adult education

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From Unreflective Thinker to Master Thinker: How Do We Help Our Students Make the Change?

Dr. Carole Bagley has made contributions to the field of e-learning in project management, strategic planning, instructional design, seminars, publications and presentations, and as higher education faculty. Her projects have included e-Learning work for the MECC, Plato learning, public/private schools, Future Kids, ISPI, ASTD, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Bemis, Morrison & Forrester, Sonnenschein, many other corporations and law firms. Her current work as Project Manager for an inter-agency VA, Army, Navy, Air Force project focuses on the design of reusable learning and HCI for a Pharmacy Tech program.

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Creating an RLO (Reusable Learning Objects) Strategy for the Inter-Agency Pharmacy Technician Blended Learning Project

Executive Director, Association for Software Testing

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Building a Free Courseware Community Around an Online Software Testing Curriculum

Becca Barniskis lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota where she works as a poet, teaching artist and free-lance writer and consultant in arts education. She edits the Resource Roundup section of the Teaching Artist Journal, develops content and architecture for Artful Online, and is a founding member of Artist to Artist.

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An Artful Process for Using, Developing, and Revising Learning Objects Long Distance Learning In and Through the Arts: A Case Story from Austin, Minnesota

I received my undergraudate degree in history and completed two masters degrees--one in library science and the other in education. As a librarian, I began my career in cataloging and for the past ten years or so my job responsibilities have encompassed working in the areas of reference, library instruction, and collection development at Minnesota State University, Mankato. My research interests include the use of learning objects to deliver information literacy instruction, evaluation of interactive textbooks, and library services for online students.

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MERLOT Librarian Workshop

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Pageflakes – Teacher Edition – Teacher Education Classic Award Winner

Mike Beutner is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Prior to teaching, he owned and operated a software development company that produced interactive multimedia software. He has had extensive experience teaching nearly one thousand pre-service instructors and thousands of other university students. He currently manages the Louisiana High School Technology Challenge: http://ulm.edu/~techchallenge/ and the graduate program of Instructional Technology.

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Open Source "Interactive Audio Objects": Creating Effective Multimedia Learning Objects, Without Programming Is YouTube a Model for "Future Skills Learning"? Discussion of the Value of Video-based Learning

Robert Bilyk earned his M.ED. in curriculum systems and has worked extensively with instructional technology since the mid 1980''s. He founded Cyber Village Academy, which has been featured in a variety of publications including Newsweek. He is a statewide participant in online learning and serves on the Minnesota K-12 Online Learning Alliance, the Minnesota Learning Object Repository Educational Consortium, and has been appointed to the Minnesota State Online Learning Advisory Council.

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Can You Use a Mouse? Point and Click Your Way to a Professional Looking Learning Object

Dr. Lorraine Boyle teaches in a hybrid, online program for teacher education. Her background includes thirty-four years in K-12 public education as a teacher, principal and central office administrator. Her leadership at local, regional, state, national, and international forums includes the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the International Conference on Education, Beyond Boundaries Conference in North Dakota, and MN ITEACH Conference.

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Bridging Limitations of Text-Based Learning Format Course Software in Hybrid, Online Learning Communities Beginning with the End in Mind: Using Evaluation Rubrics Tied to State Standards and the eFolio in Wikis and Google Docs Standards Based e-Folios in Teacher Education

Barbara F. Brandt Degree: PhD Professional Background: Assistant Vice President for Education Organization: University of Minnesota Experience relevant to presentation: Dr. Brandt is currently assistant vice president for education at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. Her current responsibilities include developing and implementing Academic Health Center-wide interdisciplinary education, community-based education, technology-enhanced learning programs and faculty development. Dr. Brandt was recently charged to co-lead development of the University of Minnesota''''''''''''''''s Learning Platform and Digital Campus initiatives. Address:MMC 501 420 Delaware St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone 612.625.3972 Fax : 612.626.2111 E-mail :brant@umn.edu

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Emerging Technologies for Learning

Dr. Barbara Rogers Bridges- professor at Bemidji State University –Minnesota *Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Minnesota *Designer and past-director of the unique distributed online learning DLiTE program, a K-8 teacher licensure program and FasTrack Initiative * Designer, Developer, Coordinator - ArtsNet Minnesota –an interdisciplinary website for the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, The Minnesota Museum of American Art *1998 Minnesota Art Higher Educator of the Year by the Art Educators of Minnesota. *Barbara's relationship with teachers, students and schools began in Maine where she started teaching art in 1976. She has worked with teachers, artists and students since that time in Maine, Mexico, the Caribbean, and in Minnesota Dr. Bridges is also a sculptor who uses themes of rootlessness, lack of identity, solitude and social fragmentation to create historiographic, record keeping, community building artworks.

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Beginning with the End in Mind: Using Evaluation Rubrics Tied to State Standards and the eFolio in Wikis and Google Docs

Ron Bridges is an associate professor of Biology at Pellissippi State Technical Community College and has over 12 years full time college teaching experience. He is also a doctoral candidate in the collaborative learning program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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A Blended Approach to Collaborative Faculty Development

Thomas M. Brinthaupt is Professor of Psychology at Middle Tennessee State University and Associate Editor of the MERLOT Psychology Board. He has received numerous awards for teaching and instructional technology, including the Tennessee Board of Regents Award of Excellence, the MTSU Distinguished Educator Award in Distance Learning, and the MTSU John T. Bragg, Sr. Distinguished Service Award. Over the past five years, he has published and presented approximately 20 papers on instructional technology and related issues.

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“If You Build it, They Still Might Not Come” – Overcoming Faculty Resistance to IT Integration

I have been Head of ICT at the Royal Masonic School for over 12 years, where I teach girls between the ages of 7 and 18. In this time I have continued to promote the use of cutting edge ICT tools within the curriculum. Having been weaned on the Acorn series of computers, I have an open mind to the use of platforms and software within education, rather than sticking to the use of more traditional software packages. Open Source packages and Web 2.0 tools are used throughout the school. I have lectured at conferences, both online and in person, on the subject of VLEs. My presentations at the first two UK Moodlemoots were very well received and resulted in me becoming firmly established as one of the leading UK evangelists for this Open Source package. I was part of the HUGTOB team of 5 teachers, who thanks to generous support from the Moodle community, had an independent stand for Moodle users at the BETT show 2006. My prize-winning poster presentation at the CAL 2005 conference illustrated the use of Wikis, Blogs and Forums in an educational context. As a teacher member of NAACE and a Mirandanet Fellow, I see myself as an ambassador for educational ICT and has been involved in a range of academic and educational projects. Greatly in demand as a presenter, I have been involved in projects for QCA, BECTA and the European Union and provides consultancy on the use of Moodle and the use of other Web 2.0 tools within Education. I have written articles for the forthcoming ''''''''Coming of Age'''''''' book that looks at the use of Web 2.0 applications within education

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The WikiFly Effect - Using Web 2.0 to Give Your Students Wings

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Professionnal Development in Technology Literacy: An Online Model

Dawn Carroll is a Technical Information Specialist for the Veterans Health Administration Employee Education System. In this role, Dawn develops and maintains DVA-specific metadata and taxonomies to be used with educational resources to ensure consistency and integration that are consistent with VA medical informatics standards. She has seven years experience working in medical, pharmaceutical, and corporate libraries, using metadata in her research. Dawn has presented at medical and public libraries on various topics, including bibliotherapy literature. She has a Masters in Library Science from Emporia State University.

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Creating an RLO (Reusable Learning Objects) Strategy for the Inter-Agency Pharmacy Technician Blended Learning Project

Paul Ceelen designs and develops online learning courses, which include development of multimedia pieces that employ a variety of cutting-edge technology-enhanced learning tools. Before joining the AHC Learning Commons, Paul developed interactive CDs as part of the Department of Neuroscience outreach program. He also created a basic computer skills curriculum for the refugee and immigrant population through the Hmong American Partnership. Paul holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

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A Successful Team-Based Strategy for Developing Hybrid Courses

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3DMolSym – Chemistry Classic Award Winner

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Connecting Concepts - Biology Classic Award Winner

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Voice Recognition as an Assistive Technology

Dr. Christou is a faculty at the UCLA Department of Statistics and a SOCR resource Co-Director.

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Law of Large Numbers: The Theory, Applications and Technology-based Education

Hyun-Duck Chung is a North Carolina University Libraries Fellow. She provides reference and instruction services in the area of business and administration, while actively exploring the possibilities of e-learning technologies, methods and approaches. Hyun-Duck received her MISt from the University of Toronto.

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The Design of Reusable Multimedia Resources to Deepen Information Literacy

Maria Clayton, Associate Professor of English, has been a pioneer in developing web-assisted and web-based composition and literature courses. Since joining the MTSU faculty in 1995, she has received several awards including the MTSU Outstanding Achievement in Instructional Technology Foundation Award. Currently, she is co-editing a book for Fountainhead Press: Using Technology in the Writing Classroom. Dr. Clayton has published articles, delivered numerous papers, and conducted workshops for faculty on IT and its impact on student learning.

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“If You Build it, They Still Might Not Come” – Overcoming Faculty Resistance to IT Integration

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Pageflakes – Teacher Edition – Teacher Education Classic Award Winner

Having worked in the IT field for 10 years on a variety of web, wireless and network-related projects, Glen Collins is now a Multimedia Specialist with Distance Education and Learning Technologies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. An accomplished musician, Glen has toured nationally, has many TV and radio performances under his belt, and is a first-call session player for many local artists and musical theatre productions. He has produced several independent CDs, appeared on many other independent releases as a guitarist, and has been a music educator for over a decade. Glen holds an Honors Degree in Jazz from St. Francis Xavier University and an Advanced Diploma in Information Technology from the College of the North Atlantic.

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Music Theory Learning Objects for Drill and Examination

Sharon Collins is a current member of the Evolving Technologies Group of EDUCAUSE and a graduate of the EDUCAUSE Management Institute. She is currently a Project Manager at East Carolina University with over 15 years with the academic community. Experience includes work with the Federal Government for nine years, worked on a Department of Defense grant investigating collaborative technologies and distance education solutions, web-conferencing platforms, computer programming, public relations, web page development, training, server support, Blackboard, and lead consultant on handheld computers (pdas). She has an undergraduate degree from Mount Olive College, North Carolina in business, a Master''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s degree from East Carolina University in Education and Instructional Technology and is currently working on her PhD with Walden University in Applied Management and Information Systems.

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VR3 - Virtual Reality: Vehicle for Recruitment & Retention Improving Distributed Education through Research: Three Studies of Pedagogy

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Animation and Interactivity in Online Education

Scott Cooper is a Professor of Biology at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse and Co-Editor of MERLOT / Biology Editorial Board since September 2000.

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The Next Generation of MERLOT Learning Activities: Pedagogy in Action Peer Reviewing for MERLOT - How You Can Get Involved

The author has a Ph.D. from Princeton University in experimental psychology and more than 40 years of teaching experience. She has published a variety of papers on higher education, particularly adult students and experiential learning, and has worked in the Lebanese program since 2000.

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Teaching Lebanese Students Online

Brooke Cox is the Visual Resources Librarian at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, where she leads the building and maintenance of the university''''s image collections. Brooke earned an MLS with a specialization in technology management from IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis).

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Marketing Branch Libraries to Students Through Web Videos

Barbara Cox is Arts Education Partnership Coordinator at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. Since 1998, she has developed collaborative partnerships and professional development models with educators, administrators, artists, arts organizations, and students. She helped launch Artful Online, a unique collection of arts education resources that support teaching, learning, and facilitating in k-20 classrooms. Her background in arts integration and multicultural education frameworks will be a focus of continued work with blended online professional development.

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An Artful Process for Using, Developing, and Revising Learning Objects Long Distance Learning In and Through the Arts: A Case Story from Austin, Minnesota

Dr. Ruth Cox has designed and implemented curriculum and educational programming in academic and corporate settings since 1989. She has taught a range of courses using distance education strategies at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University. As a Visiting Scientist at Cisco Systems, she advised the World Wide Education Group on new collaborative learning software and online teaching solutions for K-12, higher education, and Cisco Academy applications. Ruth coordinates the ePortfolio Project at San Francisco State working campus-wide with faculty on authentic assessment strategies using student electronic portfolios: http://eportfolio.sfsu.edu and has directed an ePortfolio project with public health students since 2004: http://www.sfsu.edu/~hed/masters/portfolio.htm

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The Promise of ePortfolios: Connecting Academic Achievement with California Workforce Development

Paul Coyan holds an Associate''''''''s Degree in Micro-Computer Support Technology from Century College. Upon graduation, Paul was hired by Century College and has held the positions of Computer Lab Assistant, Computer Lab Coordinator, and currently is the Century''''''''s Instructional Technology/Online Learning Site Administrator. Paul is also working through Century''''''''s I.T. Services department as a Staff/Faculty Campus Trainer.

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Students: Are You READI?

Anne Cross is Assistant Professor and Chair of the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Handout Heaven: Peer Reviewed, Student Tested Data Analysis Exercises for Social Science Research Courses

Leslie Curda is an associate professor with expertise in instructional design and technology and educational psychology. She has taught exclusively in online or blended delivery formats for the last four years. She is an active member of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and presents and publishes on distance education and related topics.

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Course Redesign: Creating Interactive Scenario and Case-Based Online Courses

Mark J. Davis (B.A., J.D., Tulane University) has been practicing law for over 30 years specializing in copyright and entertainment law. His practice is focused on copyright and contract issues as they apply to musical artists, songwriters, record labels, advertising agencies, and licensors of musical works. In addition to music publishing administration, catalogue sales, and other transactional matters, Davis represents songwriters, publishers, labels and artists in copyright infringement suits in Federal court. He currently lectures educators on copyright issues in the classroom.

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Copyright for Teachers and Librarians in the Digital Age

Taught at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, 1976 to present. Currently, holds position of Professor of Mathematics. Member of MERLOT Mathematics Editorial Board 2003 to present. Primary interests are applying technology to teaching and playing with grandchildren.

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Peer Reviewing for MERLOT - How You Can Get Involved Calculus Without Pen and Paper

Diack is currently president of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences (LAS). He represents Louisiana to MERLOT and the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Educational Technology Cooperative. He is organizer of the Pan-African Fora on Open Education Resources that are being held in different African Countries every year as part of the international e-learning Africa Conference. He is the Project Director of the MERLOT Africa Network (MAN), a collaborative of MERLOT partner institutions to conduct educational research that leads to best practices in the use of digital learning content.

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Design and Deployment of Sustainable E-Learning Solutions Adapted to an African Context Opening Access to Scientific Documentation MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) Project: Status Report After One Year of Its Launching Innovative Use of MERLOT Award - Virginia Community College System Team and Moustapha Diack Rethinking the Policies and Promoting Awareness for Deploying E-Learning in Africa

Dr. Bakary Diallo Obtained a PhD from the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with a focus on the Intergration of ICTs in higher education Institutions, a Masters Degree from the University of Ottawa, Ontario Canada and a Bachelor''''''''''''''''s Degree from the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal. Dr. Diallo has been working in the education sector for the last 19 years as a secondary school teacher, an academic, a consultant, a project administrator and a researcher. Since August 2005, he has been working with the African Virtual University (AVU), an Intergovernmental Organization based in Nairobi Kenya and specialized in Open Distance and Electronic Learning. Dr. Diallo is affiliated with several organizations including the Association of Part Time Professor of the University of Ottawa , Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS), Canadian Association for Distance Education, Joint Experts of UNESCO for the Follow up of the World Conference on Higher Education, Member of Merlot African Network Council and Teacher Education Working Group of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).

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Design and Deployment of Sustainable E-Learning Solutions Adapted to an African Context Rethinking the Policies and Promoting Awareness for Deploying E-Learning in Africa

Dr. Dinov is a faculty at the UCLA Department of Statistics and the Director of the SOCR resource.

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Law of Large Numbers: The Theory, Applications and Technology-based Education

Dr. Bernie Dodge is Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego University where he teaches courses in technology integration and educational game design.

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What Would Dewey Do?

Spring 2008 graduate of the Middle Childhood Education program at Ohio University Lancaster. Experience includes being a teaching assistant, tutor, and curriculum designer specializing in online and multimedia college course upgrades and new course design.

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Web 2.0: What Is It and Why Use It?

Barbara Draude is the Director, Academic and Instructional Technology Services at Middle Tennessee State University. In this role, she manages campus resources for faculty to integrate technology into their teaching and scholarly activities. She acts as Co-Director of the university''s Learning, Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center, providing professional development opportunities for faculty across campus. A faculty member in the School of Nursing, Barbara also teaches online and mentors faculty in designing and teaching with technology.

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“If You Build it, They Still Might Not Come” – Overcoming Faculty Resistance to IT Integration

Barbara J. Dray is an Assistant Professor in the Exceptional Education Department at Buffalo State College. She has designed online courses for an extension program in Bilingual Special Education and has used a variety of course management systems (e.g. Blackboard, ANGEL) to facilitate hybrid and online courses.

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Student Technology Capabilities & Learner Characteristics: Survey Development and Validation

Kim Duckett is the Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning at North Carolina State University. She takes a lead in the library''''s efforts to incorporate library resources, services, and instruction into teaching and learning environments and serves as the primary distance education librarian. Kim received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001.

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The Design of Reusable Multimedia Resources to Deepen Information Literacy

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Emerging Technologies for Learning

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Creating Engaging Lessons and Reusable Learning Objects with SoftChalk

Donna Eyestone holds a B.A. in Computer Music Composition from Clark University, an M.F.A in Electronic Music Recording from the Mills College, and an M.F.A. in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. She has been teaching multimedia in the Bay Area for 10 years. Her Digital Media Skills course has won awards from the California Virtual Campus (CVC) and the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA). After "retiring" from Apple, she is currently a part-time online instructor at City College of San Francisco, a trainer with @ONE, and a MERLOT Fellow and CVC Scholar.

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Podcasting for Educators

Mr. Falchi is the Chief Program Strategist for IMS Global Learning Consortium, responsible for developing and leading an international Learning Technology Advisory Council (LTAC) providing end user guidance to IMS GLC technical specification and adoption practice activities. Prior to his appointment at IMS GLC, Mr. Falchi was Director of Program Management Office, Director of Operations and General Manager for Eduprise Inc, Collegis Inc and Sungard Higher Education, respectively.

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International Learning Technology Advisory Council Addressing Higher Education Issues Through Interoperability Standards

James Falkofske is the Director of Online Learning at St. Cloud Technical College. He has worked in higher education online course design since 2000, and prior to that time owned and operated a photography and computer consulting business for over ten years. Falkofske has special expertise and research interests in web accessibility (508 and WAI), media development (video, audio, Flash), and use of CSS in course object design.

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Home-Brew Video Studio Equipment

Michelle A. Farley is an Instructional Designer/Consultant with the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of North Texas. Michelle is also an adjunct instructor for Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, teaching fire protection technology courses online. Michelle is currently a student in the Educational Learning Technologies Doctoral Program at New Mexico State University. Michelle''''s emphasis within distance learning includes creating engaging student learning environments, quality assurance, and faculty training in distance education.

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Utilizing Web2.0 and LMS Tools To Engage Students Online

Dr. Zala Fashant has taught in elementary school, high school and college classrooms for over 25 years. He served on professional development committees in K-12 and now serves as the assistant director for programs and services at the Center for Teaching and Learning for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Zala most recently presented "Bridging the Chasm: Collaboration Between Secondary and Post-Secondary Educators" at the Professional and Organization Development (POD) international conference in 2006 and "System and Large Multi-Campus Faculty Developers Roundtable" at the POD conference in 2007; "Building Community with Desire 2 Learn: Interactively Communicating with a Statewide Network" at Fusion 2007: Desire2Learn Users Conference; "Bridging the Chasm: Collaboration Between Secondary and Post-Secondary Educators" at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning conference in 2006 and "Thinking and Clicking in the Classroom!" at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning conference in 2007.

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Tom Fauchald has been a Professor at Bemidji State University for 26 years. Tom has a Masters degree in Business and holds the CPA designation. Tom has served as Department Chair and has been very active at the local and state level in the Inter Faculty Organization (IFO), the exclusive bargaining unit of the over 3,300 full and part time faculty of the seven Minnesota state universities. Currently Tom coordinates his Department''''''''''''''''s on-line Business Administration degree program which generates approximately 1,400 credits per semester.

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Getting Creative with Online Faculty Compensation and Work Load

Sally Fauchald, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor in the College of St. Scholastica''''s School of Nursing. She has a Post-Master''''''''''''''''s certificate in nursing informatics and is a Faculty Lead with the Academic Electronic Health Record project.

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Utilizing Innovative Technologies in Online Graduate Nursing Education

Assistant Professor of Education, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Co-PI (with Kaner) on NSF project (CCLI-0717613 Adaptation & Implementation of an Activity-Based Online or Hybrid Course in Software Testing) that provides funding for this research

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Building a Free Courseware Community Around an Online Software Testing Curriculum

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Using Game-Based Technologies for Teaching Ethics

Theresa Flaherty, a member of MERLOT since 2000, has served as Peer Reviewer, Submitter, Author, Associate Editor, and Business Portal Editor. She is a Professor of Marketing at James Madison Univesity and teaches Principles of Marketing, Internet Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Information Security Ethics and Policy.

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Knowing the Ropes Aboard the Associate EditorSHIP

Kevin Floyd is an assistant professor in the School of Information Technology at Macon State College. His professional interests include the use of web technologies for the development of instructional and e-commerce content, web server administration, and database administration. His research interests are in web accessibility, and the design, development, and implementation of an open source learning object repository.

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Meeting the Challenges of Developing Accessible Web Content

Galen Foresman is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is interested in developing unique teaching devices for online education.

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Animation and Interactivity in Online Education

Jim Formosa has been in higher education for 24 years. He has been involved in distance education for 15 years and Web delivered instruction for eight years. In addition to being credentialed in accounting, he is also credentialed in adult education and development and delivery of Web instruction. His primary interests for the past ten years have been pedagogy in general and instructional design and delivery in particular with an emphasis on cognitive psychology and its role in learning. These interests have led to an in-depth study of the impact of technology on teaching and learning.

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Implementing Formative Assessment in a CMS

Sean Fox is the Technical Director for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College and has been leveraging web technologies in support of education since 1995. He is the developer of many of the tools that underpin the Pedagogic Service Project.

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The Next Generation of MERLOT Learning Activities: Pedagogy in Action

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Faculty Development Workshop - More Than a Taste of MERLOT Innovative Use of MERLOT Award - Virginia Community College System Team and Moustapha Diack

Dorothy Fuller is an associate professor of educational technology at Black Hills State University and has been teaching exclusively online for seven years. Her primary research focus is the development and practice of reflective and critical thinking in online learning.

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What Works in Asynchronous Online Discussions Structured Student Self-Assessment of Asynchronous Discussions Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved Wikis and the Pressure of Public Writing

Catherine Furry designs and develops hybrid, distance learning curriculum for the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota. She has extensive instructional design experience, from education development consulting with Fortune 500 corporations to serving as the Director of Education for a hospital in Central Minnesota. Catherine holds a BS from the University of Minnesota as well as a Master''''s Degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

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A Successful Team-Based Strategy for Developing Hybrid Courses

Trina Gabriel is marketing/communications assistant with the Division of Continual Learning at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has worked in higher education for nearly 10 years and has been in distance education for 3 years. Former program manager for the online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, she has served as student advocate in the areas of admission, registration and advising.

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Using Technology for Fast-Track Training

Valerie Geaither is a professor of family studies at Metropolitan State University. She is experienced in engaging students in interdisciplinary study and in providing them an array of instructional delivery modalities. In addition to her live classes, Professor Geaither has taught sections of her family courses on WebTC and D2L for several years.

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Orchestrating a Multi-Media Learning Experience by Integrating Radio Resources with the Internet

My Ph.D. is in Teaching and Learning with an emphasis in Higher Education (graduated Dec. 2007). I have an MA in English with an emphasis in Composition/Rhetoric. My teaching is based upon a social constructivist model where the student is the center of learning and the instructor is a facilitating guide—knowledge is constructed and then mediated within a social context. When teaching with technology my mantra is, “purpose is everything”.

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Integration of Technology in Higher Education

Steven W. Gilbert founded the Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Group, an independent nonprofit organization, originally affiliated with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), in January 1998. Previously he had been with EDUCOM since 1983, serving as Vice President, and then came to AAHE as Director, Technology Projects, in July 1993 where he developed the TLT Roundtable concept and the AAHESGIT Listserv. He is a frequent guest speaker, consultant, published author and keynoter at campus events and conferences, having visited more than 500 colleges and universities since 1994. Gilbert has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics was from Princeton University. He also earned an Ed. M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Creating and Using Brief Online Teaching and Learning Resources Brief Hybrid Workshops (BHWs) and Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Modules (BHTLMs) Tom Creed--Compassionate Pioneer

Kevin Gilbertson is Web & Digital Projects Librarian at Wake Forest University''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He received his MLIS in 2005 from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He focuses on web standards and creative solutions to managing complex information environments.

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ZSR Library Presents: Blogs & Wikis @ Wake Forest University

Caroline L. Gilson is Assistant Director of Libraries and Coordinator of the Prevo Science Library at DePauw University. Recent projects at DePauw have included planning the campus libraries web site structure and participating in conversations about digital library initiatives. Caroline completed her MLS at Indiana University-Bloomington and also earned a master''''''''s degree in liberal studies at Wake Forest University. She has been at DePauw since 2001.

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Marketing Branch Libraries to Students Through Web Videos