Disciplinary Interests: methods
Gary R Carlson
Dr. Gary Carlson has had over 42 years of experience in the academic field. He started with his first teaching job working with incarcerated youth age 18 and younger. Later he was teaching at the high school level and coaching football, basketball and track in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1970, he became the first special education teacher in a Jr. High School in Omaha. His love for special education and the challenges in the public schools with the educationally challenged youth in the public schools he accepted the position of Supervisor for Special Education. Later he would become a Director of Special Education for 33 school districts in Iowa. After five years he accepted the challenge of running a school at a children’s home and became their main fund raiser which resulted in a new school, gymnasium and housing. In 1990, Dr. Carlson became a Campus Director for a business college in Lincoln, Nebraska. Most recently Dr. Gary Carlson was the very first Vice President for Academic Affairs for ITT Technical Institute in the corporate office in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was responsible for academic administration and academic leadership for 127 colleges. After 14 years with ITT he retired. Within a short period of time he started gCarlson Inc. a consulting company for higher education colleges and universities.
During the past 42 years Dr. Carlson has been President for a school board, President for the State of Nebraska Council for Exceptional Children, served on many APSCU committees, has worked with ACICS for 21 years as an evaluator, committee member, Commissioner and currently Chair for ACICS. He has always stayed close to teaching and instruction by teaching at Crieghton University, online teaching and conducting training for faculty in colleges and Universities.
Education:
University of Nebraska at Omaha-----B.S. Secondary Education
University of Nebraska at Omaha----M.S. Special Education
University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE. Ed.D. Administration, Curriculum and Instruction
Richard J. Darga
Blackboard to Moodle Transition, Smart Classroom Expansion, Electronic Publishing, Expansion of the Center for Teaching and Research Excellence
Doctoral prepared educator and corporate executive and with 20 years experience in education, health care and information technology with demonstrated leadership ability in organizing, directing and controlling the strategic planning and marketing function, development of new services, the successful financial turnaround of problem operations, extracting maximum performance from established programs, and technological network construction. Experience in graduate level instruction, developing on-line courses and managing technology support and training operations. Change management coordination and presentation experience. Proven leader and excellent problem-solver with finely tuned analytical, organizational development, education, strategic planning, and communication skills. FRYE Fellow.
jose marichal
Jose Marichal is a Professor of Political Science at California Lutheran University. He blogs at thickculture.blogspot.com
kelly dempsey-little
EDUCAUSE, NERCOMP (North East Regional Computing Program), Association for Computing Machinery, NITLE, New Media Consortium, International Society for Technology in Education, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction and Information Technology Education.
Kelly Dempsey-Little received her B.A. in English and Elementary Education from Norwich University, Northfield, VT in 1988 and her M.A. in Computing and Education from Columbia University's Teacher's College in 2002. Since 2002, she has been the Coordinator of Training and Documentation in the IT Department at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Kelly coordinates college wide technology training for students, faculty and staff, consults with faculty on integrating technology, and develops special projects in multimedia and web technologies.
