Elizabeth Romero

Self-efficacy effects on professional development in higher education faculty, CReaTE: A four dimension framework to integrating technology in the classroom

Professional Development, Educational Technology integration, Cognitive Development

Dr. Elizabeth Romero is an electronic engineer from Universidad National Autónoma de México. She holds a master in computer science from Tecnológico de Monterrey, a master in education from Western Kentucky University, and a Ph.D in Organizational Development from the University of Louisville, USA. From 1995 to 2003, she was the director of the Virtual University at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus. For the last eight years, she has been a Senior Instructional Designer in the Office of Distance Learning at Western Kentucky University (WKU) where she provides consultation and training to faculty in developing online courses. Additionally, she teaches technology-related graduate level courses in the School of Teacher Education at WKU.

Jason Stuart

Jason Stuart is Assistant Professor of English at Slippery Rock University. Please see my academia.edu and/or LinkedIn profiles for disciplinary interests.

Barbara Taranto

Repository Development, Future Information Environment, Cloud Computing - DuraCloud

Humanities, Film, Photography, History, Public Policy

Abdullah Andi Koro

Software Engineering, CMM, Internetworking

Abdullah A. Koro is lecturer at Computer Science Graduate Program, Budi Luhur University

John McGowan

Multimedia Classroom Definition, Building a Resource Center for Enabling Technologies

The Academy, Technology, Advanced Cyber infrastructure

Philip Bernick

Collaborative technologies for knowledge elicitation, capture, propagation and reuse.

Robert H. McDonald

HathiTrust, IU ScholarWorks, Boopsie for IU

high performance computing, mass scale storage, high performance storage, academic computing, administrative computing, Web 2.0, mobile computing

Robert H. McDonald is the Associate Dean for Library Technologies and an ASsociate Director in the Data to Insight Center at Indiana University where he leads the library information technology department and the digital library program. Formerly he was the lead for strategic data alliances and Co-Project Manager for the Chronopolis Data Preservation Initiative at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)/UC San Diego. Mr. McDonald is an active speaker and writer and has presented previously at the conferences of EDUCAUSE, the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, the Coalition for Networked Information, iPRES, MERLOT, and the American Library Association. His article on creating trust among institutional repositories with Fran Berman, Brian Schottlaender, and Ardys Kozbial can be found in Educause Review 43(3).

C. Sidney Burrus

Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Technology in Education, Connexions

PhD in EE from Stanford, 1965 BA, BS, MS from Rice, 1957, 58, 60 EE Faculty at Rice, 1965 to present Maxfield & Oshman Professor Emeritus, 1996 to present Fellow of IEEE and AAAS Over 200 papers and 5 books published Various teaching and research awards Dean of Engineering at Rice, 1998-2006

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.

Michael McLeod

Michael McLeod is an online trainer and Academic Technical Support Specialist at Trinity Western University

Leslie Hitch

History, Higher Education

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.

W. Alvin Chai

Mobil Communication, Software Development

Chief Information Technology Officer

Hong Tae Jeon

Valerie Barr

Valerie Barr full professor chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, NY.