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Stavros Katsios
Stavros Katsios is Associate Professor of International Economic Relations and International Economic Crime at Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
rebecca lucas
Frank Bennett
Sharon Tettegah
Sharon Tettegah is a faculty at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign. She also holds appointments at the Beckman Institute, and Department of Educational Psychology; Her research focuses on pre-service teacher education and students as it relates to human perception and performance in human-computer intelligent interaction within teaching and learning milieus. She specialize in the study of social simulations and virtual reality environments.She is currently investigating pre-service teachers, and other students in higher education, attitudes and perceptions of student's school interactions involving empathy. Her research interests include the use of web based animated narrative vignette technologies (social simulations) as a methodology to understand cognitive and emotional responses of educators and other professionals in helping professions.
She believes that web based technologies such as social simulations and synthetic environments (i.e., virtual environments) are examples of how educators can use technology to understand issues that affect classroom teaching and learning practices in a diverse society. She also studies identity semiotics within the context of social simulations.
Jeff Ritchie
International Digital Media and Arts Association, Modern Language Association, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH
Jeff Ritchie is Associate Professor of Digital Communications and English and director of the Digital Communications program at Lebanon Valley College.
Pamela A. Taylor
Multicultural and Social Justice Education, Anti-racism Pedagogy, Critical Theory, Curriculum Development
Dr. Taylor is an associate professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Program at Seattle University. She teaches courses in curriculum and instruction, social justice in practice, and philosophy of education.
Craig H Campbell
Craig Campbell is an Associate Professor of Public Safety Management at St. Edward's University in Austin Texas.
Dr. Preston VanLoon
College Reading and Learning Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Iowa Association of Alternative Education, American Counseling Association
Preston VanLoon is a Professor in the Education Division of Iowa Wesleyan College
Mark Peterson
computer assisted language learning, simulation and gaming, virtual environments, second language acquisition
Mark Peterson is an Associate Professor in the graduate school of human and environmental studies at Kyoto University
Julie Cowgill
Integrating the Arts in Sociology classes, Facilitating Learning Through Class Projects Promoting Awareness of Social Issues on Campus, Applying Restorative Justice Practices to White Collar Crimes, Volunteerism and Emotional Labor
Julie Cowgill is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University.
Marjorie McLellan
Oral History Association, National Council on Public History, Organization of American Historians, American Association for State and Local History
The New Deal in Ohio is a collaborative project led by the Ohio Humanities Council., The Ohio Heritage Fellows brings together the OHC, the Ohio Arts Council, Cityfolk, public television and others., I work with area public schools on TAH grants and National History Day., I am editor of oralhistory.org for the Oral History Association., I'm working on using new media in my courses.
Marjorie McLellan is a folklorist and an Associate Professor of History at Wright State University.
Richard Kool
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass. He has held residencies and scholarships at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize. He is currently working on two book projects, a collection of short stories and a comparative study of American and Vietnamese memories and representations of the American war in Viet Nam, focusing on the literary and visual arts. He is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Francisco Restivo
Francisco J. Restivo (IEEE Member’71) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1988 and the Scientific Director and member of the Board of IDIT - Institute for Development and Innovation in Technology, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, since 1999. His research interests include Digital Signal Processing, Intelligent Production Systems, Complexity Management and e-Learning. Dr. Restivo holds a D. Phil. degree by the University of Sussex (1981) and he has been awarded the Third Millennium Medal by the IEEE in 2000.
Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
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.
Thomas HP Gould
Managing Editor, Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy (ojrrp.org), Editor-in-chief, Eye on Kansas (eyeonkansas.org), Latest research:, A Baker’s Dozen of Issues Facing Online Academic Journal Start-ups (in review), Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Journal: A Case Study of Fits and Starts (in review), Update of online mass communication research (nearing submission), Copyright, Technology, and the Commons: a Study of Cambridge v. GSU, nearing completion, Creation of a research commons, Editor of online academic journal, Editor of rural service journal
Thomas Gould is an Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Kansas State University.
