Professional Organization: Science
Peter J. Taylor
Collaborative Exploration of Scientific and Social Change, Project-based learning in graduate education, Heterogeneity and control in the biomedical sciences
Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice, especially about Social Analysis of Ecological Change and Analyses of Human Life-course Development, Science, Technology and Society
Peter Taylor is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he teaches and directs undergraduate and graduate programs on critical thinking, reflective practice, and science-in-society. His research and writing focuses on the complexity of environmental and health sciences in their social context, incl. Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement (U. Chicago Press, 2005).
Elizabeth Romero
Self-efficacy effects on professional development in higher education faculty, CReaTE: A four dimension framework to integrating technology in the classroom
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.
David Bogen
Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interface Design, Media and Cultural Studies, Participatory Design, Philosophy of Language, Critical Theory
David Bogen received his B.A. in philosophy from Macalester College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. He is currently the Vice President Academic + Provost at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation(SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments.
michael allen
Diana Chapman Walsh
Diana Chapman Walsh was president of Wellesley College from 1993-2007. Formerly, she was a professor and department chair at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently she is trustee, director, or member of governing and advisory boards including the MIT corporation, the Broad Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, and the Washington University at Saint Louis Institute of Public Health.
David Donald
David Donald teaches political economy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He also works on a digital library project which enables scholarly access to audio and video resources - most notably the Archives of the BBC.
Jeffrey S. Bullington
Mary G. Filice
Researching the impact of media convergence and mutlitasking on student learning and critical thinking. Chosen as a National CASTL Institute scholar (June 2009) focusing on this reserach., Conducting a break-out session at the 29th International Critical Thinking Conference (July 2009): Truthiness, Trust, and Technology: Critical Thinking in the Age of Convergence., Conduct a series of media literacy workshops for Split Pillow, an alternative filmmaking cooperative., Developing a multiplatform "film" based on August Strindberg's one-act The Stronger.
Integration of technology into the classroom to enhance teaching, student learning, and critical thinking., Media Literacy, Independent filmmaking
Mary Filice is tenure-track faculty and coordinator of the Media Concentration of the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Department, Columbia College Chicago. As an independent filmmaker and consultant Mary recently assisted Percolator Films (formerly Reetime Film and Video Forum) on their first film festival, The Talking Pictures Festival, which took place in Evanston, IL May 1-3. Mary is also a media literacy advocate conducting a series of media literacy/filmmaking workshops for middle-school children in conjunction with the alternative filmmaking group Split Pillow. Mary has a MA in Film/Video from Columbia College and BA in Theater from Loyola University.
Rob Lancefield
museum information work, standards, metadata, information architecture, digital preservation, digital media development, interaction design, usability
Rob Lancefield is Manager of Museum Information Services at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; he currently serves as Past President of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu).
Joanne L. Stewart
Joanne L. Stewart is Professor of Chemistry at Hope College and Director of Integrative Studies for Hope's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program.
James Jay Morgan
Evaluation of commercial knowledge bases for clinical information support, Integration of information resources in online learning environments
Jim Morgan has been Director of Educational Technology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Associate Librarian for Systems
Jan Visser
For the Love of Science (http://www.learndev.org/ScienceWorkBooks.html), The Scientific Mind (http://www.learndev.org/SciMind.html), Meaning of Learning (http://www.learndev.org/MoL.html), Learning for Sustainability (conceptualization in progress)
Theoretical physicist (Ir., Delft University of Technology) and learning scientist (PhD, Florida State University). President and Senior Researcher, Learning Development Institute. Former UNESCO Director for Learning Without Frontiers.
Robert H. McDonald
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).
Charles Hofacker
Charles Hofacker is Professor Marketing at Florida State University
Elizabeth Dorland
faculty development, improvement of college science teaching, Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning
Liz Dorland is a former NSF program officer and college chemistry faculty member who promotes information and visual literacy in the context of Web 2.0 at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Writing book 'How to Photograph God' based on student work in Israel (see blog www.photographgod.com). Creating and administering blogs: www.artiststory.com, www.future-of-art.com, www.wikiartists.us, www.zionistartists.blogspot.com, and www.aestheticpeace.blogspot.com., In the tradition of Picasso's Guernica, creating and disseminiating webart to prevent genocide (see web artwork www.futureholocaustmemorials.org archived by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York)
art, art education, digital art, art & science, art & technology, Jewish studies, kabbalah, consciousness & culture, interdisciplianry learning
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Head of the School of the Arts at Emuna College in Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, and formerly Professor at Bar-Ilan University. In the USA where he was born and educated, he was Dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University, and Research Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Baltimore Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Malmo Museum in Sweden, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Jewish Museum in Prague, Museo de Art Contemporaneo in Caracas, and Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He is author of the books: 'Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture' (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2008), 'Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art' (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House, 2008) in Hebrew, 'The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness'(Intellect Books 2006), 'Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process' (Bar Ilan University Press), 'Light and Sight' (Prentice-Hall), and with Otto Piene, 'LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age' (MIT/Yeshiva University Museum). He was art editor of 'The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics', and has written numerous interdisciplinary papers.
jose marichal
Jose Marichal is a Professor of Political Science at California Lutheran University. He blogs at thickculture.blogspot.com
Wendy Gem
I recently completed research on using Geographic Information Systems, GIS in education., I am just beginning to study the negative impacts of using technology in the classroom and the marketing hype behind it.
Sciences (Natural, Applied, Social), Humanities (Philosophy, History, Language, Arts (Visual, Performing)), Research
Faculty of New Media
10 years experience in an academic environment including six in Information Technology
Jean-Claude Guédon
Jean-Claude Guédon is Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal
erica brownstein
Erica Brownstein is an associate professor of science education at Capital University and is also the Preservice Accreditation Coordinator for NSTA.
