Luke Fernandez

Luke Fernandez is Assistant Manager of Program and Technology Development at Weber State University

Leslie Hitch

Educause, ACM, IEEE

Leslie Hitch is the Director of Academic Technology Services at Northeastern University. In this position, she serves as the translator, catalyst and sometimes arbiter between information technology and the academic community. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a Vice President at Harcourt, Inc. during the launch of their online college. Her higher education experience includes developing executive education at Babson College, directing a masters program at Simmons College, and involvement in strategic planning for several colleges. She has been consultant to IBM's Global Education business unit. At Educause and NERCOMP, she has spoken on the topic of Demand Management and its complexity in higher education. Her professional development program, Higher Ed 101- A Short Course for Technology Professionals will be highlighted at the 2006 Campus Technology Conference. She holds a B.A. and MBA from Simmons College and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Stephen C. Ehrmann

SCUP, AEA

IT and General Education, Learning Space Design, External evaluation of MIT iCampus project (open source tools for active learning and web services)

Stephen C. Ehrmann is Director of the Flashlight Program for the Study and Improvement of Educational Uses of Technology at The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (The TLT Group), a not-for-profit. Dr. Ehrmann is also Vice President of The TLT Group, which serves over 150 subscribing colleges, universities, and schools.

Jack Fritts

American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Library Admiistration and Management Association, Library and Information Technology Association

Jack Fritts is Director of Library Services at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.

Peter Felten

American Historical Association, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Organization of American Historians, Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education (POD)

Founding the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research on how students read and make sense of visual sources in history classes, Applying SoTL methods in faculty development work

Peter Felten is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University.

Daniel Sewell

American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Institutional Research (AIR), American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychological Society (APS), Cognitive Science Society, National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), Society of Research Administrators (SRA)

1. Scholarship in distributed or distance higher education institutions., 2. The scholar-practitioner model in higher education.

Dan Sewell is Associate Provost for Research at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA.