Sharon Tettegah

Social and Emotional Learning; Teaching and Learning in Immersive Environments, Teacher Education

Education, Psychology, Communication

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.

Ken Graetz

Developing an online Clinical Lab Science program, Exploring the academic applications of digital ink, Opening new faculty and staff learning commons on campus

collaboration, teamwork, groups, communication, cognition, emotion, attitudes, psychometric, assessment

Ken Graetz received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Specializing in Social Psychology, his research interests include team and group dynamics, social cognition, psychometrics, and computer supported collaborative work. A faculty member for 10 years at the University of Dayton, Dr. Graetz taught such courses as Experimental Psychology, Team and Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Processes, and Statistics. He also served as the Director of Collaboration Technology and eLearning in the UD Ryan C. Harris Learning and Teaching Center. Dr. Graetz joined Winona State University in 2002 and now serves as the Director of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Services. He is engaged currently in the development of learning opportunities for faculty and staff, academic technology project management and support, and numerous research and development projects.

Ellen L Nuffer

developing hybrid course modules for Master's in Education program, creating video podcasts on current news items related to education, developing a wiki on History and Foundations of Education, teaching cross disciplinary courses that develop critical thinking and writing skills in first year students

assessment in the classroom, school law, history and foundations of education, developing critical thinking and writing skills in first year students

Ellen L. Nuffer, Ed.D., is a school psychologist and Professor of Education at Keene State College, a public liberal arts college in New Hampshire.

Ian Miller,PhD

Psychology, Knowledge Management, Organizations

Ian Miller is a Principal in the Accord Advisory Group. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Baruch College.

Pamela V. Thacher

Investigating the role of sleep deprivation in how students live, examining the role of the homeostat in insomnia

Sleep deprivation, Psychology, Clinical care, foster childrens mental health needs

Pamela Thacher is an assistant professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University in the North Country of New York State.

Daniel Sewell

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

Higher education, Scholarship and practice in education, Cognitive psychology

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

William A. Montgomery

John V. Knapp

Family Systems Therapy and Literary Criticism: article on the American hard-boiled crime fiction writer, Ross Macdonald., College Teaching of Literature -- book-length project on English professor expertise.

Using family systems therapy as a tool for literary criticism, Expertise in the teaching of literature at the college level, Training secondary teachers of English in the college classroom, Modern British Fiction

John V. Knapp is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.