Role: faculty

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Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel
Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel is currently concluding work on her MFA in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, at CSU Fresno. She is the current Co-Coordinator of Students of English Studies Association. She was the editor for the San Joaquin Review and former President of the San Joaquin Literary Association. Her essay "Mystery Spot" has recently been accepted by local Fresno radio station KVPR's Valley Writers Read 2008-09 reading series.
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Founding Dean of a new School of Art and Multimedia at Netanya Academic College, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, Head of Programs in Art and Design, Emunah College in Jerusalem, 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, 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.
David Neville
David O. Neville is assistant professor of German Language and Literature and Director of Language Learning Technologies at Elon University. He holds a Ph.D. in German Language and Literature, with an emphasis in Medieval Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis, and a M.S. in Instructional Technology from Utah State University. Dr. Neville's research interests include interactive instructional tool building, advanced interactive multimedia design, problem-based learning (PBL), cognitive load theory (CLT), digital game-based learning (DGBL), online collaborative learning, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), medieval German language and literature, medieval Franciscan theology and mysticism, medieval paleography and codicology, and text and image in medieval manuscripts.
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss is professor of eLearning in Visual Culture and head of the international MA-programme ePedagogy Design – Visual Knowledge Building at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He studied philosophy, graphics, art and design education and communication theory in Salzburg, Vienna (MA, PhD) and the MIT Boston. During the 1980s and 90s he worked as cross-over artist, multi-media producer, university teacher and project manager. Previous to the professor appointment in 2003, he held the position of a research group leader at the EUN in Brussels. His research interests are in the visual knowledge building in collaborative learning processes, and the media-didactical implications how technology, pedagogy and organizational structure influence and constrain each other in the process of educational change. He has served as external assessor and reviewer for a number of scientific and research bodies, including the European Commission in the Programmes IST, eLearning, Media, Erasmus, etc. and has received several honours and scholarships.
Michael T. Coventry
Michael Coventry teaches in the M.A. program in Communication, Culture & Technology Program at Georgetown University. For five years, he was an assistant director of the Visible Knowledge Project (http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/). Currently, he is engaged in a qualitative research project on student-authored multimedia narratives in multiple institutional contexts.
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Michelle is a full-time art history professor at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA. She was the recipient of the 2007 NISOD Teaching Excellence Award and the 2007 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching Award. She received her MA in Art History from UC Riverside in 1999 and was also the recipient of the CA/UCR Museum of Photography Fellowship.
nathan rein
Nathan Rein is an asssistant professor of religious studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.