Scott Siddall

EDUCAUSE, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, National Shellfisheries Association

Open source software: Sakai, OSPI, uPortal, Digital asset management, especially faculty collections and protocols for sharing content, Role of teaching and learning centers on the small campus

Evelyn Laurito

Philipine Institute of Chemical Engineers, Philippine eLearning Society

eLearning Development, Waste Management

professor of Chemical Engineering University of santo Tomas

Dr. Ludmila Smirnova

AACE, Kappa Delta Pi

Moodlerooms, Pbwiki, WiZiQ

Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. Prior to coming to the U.S., she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools” in Southern part of Russia. A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education. Dr. Smirnova has been a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia, Holland and the U.S. Moving to the U.S. in 2000, she brought this focus on innovation into the realm of emerging Web technology, where she quickly became recognized for her leadership in Web applications to education. She has used her own teaching to drive her learning, regularly offering such courses as Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching, Nature of Schools and Society and Teaching with Technology.

Phillip Butler

LinkedIn, Mensa, Pi Sigma Alpha

Erick Groot

Erick Groot is a professor in the Biology Department with a cross appointment in the Fisheries & Aquaculture Dept. at Malaspina University-College on the west coast of Canada. He teaches a variety of courses including introductory biology, animal physiology, human anatomy & physiology, and aquatic ecology at both the junior and senior undergraduate levels.

Meg E. Stewart

American Association of Geographers, Geological Society of America

Meg Stewart is the Academic Computing Consultant for GIS in the Computing and Information Services department at Vassar College. She manages and maintains a desktop GIS lab and a mobile computing tablet PC "lab." Meg helps faculty and students use mapping technologies in their classes and research projects to answer geospatial questions.

Thomas C. Hilde

Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), American Philosophical Association (APA), Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP), UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory

Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Reconstructing Institutions between Philosophy and Policy. Forthcoming., Editor, Pragmatism and Globalization (Rodopi), Editor, On Torture (Johns Hopkins University Press), Venezuela exchange project, Various papers and book chapters on philosophy and public policy

Tom Hilde teaches and writes in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. He is the editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, and the forthcoming Pragmatism and Globalization (Rodopi) and On Torture, as well as a monograph on cosmopolitanism.

Paul Richardson

Nancy Kwallek, Ph.D.

Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Professional, Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), Corporate, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Allied, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Texas Association for Interior Design (TAID), Decorative Arts Trust, Society of Architectural Historians

Examines productivity and human response to the interior ambience of office environments or confined spaces;, Subjects work on office tasks in a variety of color offices;, Assess the effects of color on worker well-being (mood), productivity, performance and satisfaction;, The health and well-being of the environment on individuals; Investigating the effects of VOCs on office workers, indoor off-gassing and pollution caused by reprocessed Green and non-Green interior materials;, Effects on office worker productivity, performance;, Comparisons between interior finishes of conventional furnishings/finishes (emit VOCs), interior finished with user-friendly green materials, interior finished with recycled materials.

Dr. Nancy Kwallek is an endowed professor at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Director of Interior Design Program