Speakers
Bernie Dodge
Professor, San Diego State University
Dr. Bernie Dodge is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University where he teaches courses in technology integration and educational game design. He has helped design the staff development program for three Challenge Grants. In 2000 he was named by the editors of eSchool News as one of the top 30 educators who have had an impact on technology in the nation's schools. Later that year, Converge magazine profiled him among leaders shaping the future of education and technology. Dr. Dodge was on the Educational Advisory Board for Cable in the Classroom from 2002-05, and is currently on the Advisory Board for the National EMINTS Center and the Teach the Teachers Consortium. He was named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2003, and was the recipient of awards from MERLOT in 2004 and 2007. He developed the WebQuest model in 1995 and continues to refine and disseminate it widely through presentations and workshops around the globe and through his website at http://webquest.org.
Andrea Henne
Dean of Online and Distributed Learning, San Diego Community College District
Andrea Henne is the Dean of Online and Distributed Learning at the San Diego Community College District, which currently enrolls over 10,000 students each semester in online courses (http://www.sdccdonline.net) at San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego Miramar College, and San Diego Continuing Education. Dr. Henne has extensive experience at the community college and university levels in creating accessible online learning environments that meet best practices in technology-based teaching, faculty development, student learning outcomes, and quality standards. Prior to working for the San Diego Community College District, Dr. Henne was the Systemwide Director of Distributed Learning at Alliant International University, developing and managing online, video-conferenced web-conferenced, and blended courses and faculty development across six California campuses, Mexico City and Japan. She has been a full-time instructor of Computer Business Technology at Los Angeles City College and San Diego Mesa College and an online instructor in Instructional Technology at National University and in Economics as well as Critical Thinking and Problem Solving at DeVry Online. Educated at UCLA in Higher Education Leadership (doctorate) and Business-Economic Education (masters), Dr. Henne is a frequent presenter at conferences, workshops, and webinars on best practices in technology-based teaching, faculty development, online student motivation and retention, and online course quality standards.
John Nash
Associate Professor, Iowa State University
John Nash is associate professor of educational administration in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, with a joint appointment in Human Computer Interaction, at Iowa State University. He is the former associate director for evaluation at the Stanford Center for Innovations (SCIL), where he conducted applied research on improving outcomes in grant-funded initiatives. He was also a grant maker for the Wallenberg Global Learning Network, an arm of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden, focused on enhancing learning outcomes through educational technology in the U.S., Sweden and Germany.
Prior to his work at SCIL he served as the Associate Director of Assessment and Research at the Stanford Learning Laboratory, where he directed an interdisciplinary team of research scientists examining the effects of innovative technologies on learning. He came to Stanford from the University of Texas at El Paso where he was a member of the graduate faculty in educational administration.
John has a PhD in educational administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a masters degree in special education from University of Louisiana, Monroe and a bachelors degree is in developmental psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Ben Hubbard
Manager, webcast.berkeley, UC Berkeley on iTunes U, & UC Berkeley on YouTube
Before becoming the Manager of webcast.berkeley, Ben worked as an events technician, event services manager, project manager, and account executive in the private sector. He has overseen installations of audio and video systems into major trade show booths, concerts, and special events venues for companies such as Nintendo, Sony Playstation, Sketchers Shoes, & The University of Oregon Athletic Department - Hall of Fame Museum.
Richard Lacy
Program Manager, Center for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern California
Rick Lacy develops community programs around technology topics for USC faculty and staff including the Faculty Forum series, and the tightly-focused Communities of Practice that bring together USC practitioners to connect with each other on specific technologies and their discipline-based approaches. Rick has been with USC for over twenty years and has managed critical, enterprise-level instructional technologies including the learning management system (Blackboard) and the introduction of device-based, online, and now text-messaging-based polling technologies for increased classroom interaction and engagement.
Rick Lacy is ABD in Linguistics (UC, San Diego) and holds a B.A. in English (University of Virginia). Prior to joining CST, Rick Lacy held a post-doc position in the USC Writing Program, and developed research projects that evaluated USC's assessment of non-native student performance, and then later technology and instruction projects that addressed novel approaches to instruction including the IBM-funded Project Socrates and the Apple-funded Project Jefferson. Rick is a founding member of CST and has been a lead in evaluating and bringing a number of technologies to campus including USCWeb, Blackboard and more recently formative assessment (polling) technologies.
Kathy Fernandes
Director of CSU LMS Initiatives, California State University, Chico
Kathy Fernandes is the Director of Academic Technologies at CSU, Chico where she oversees the campus learning management system, the faculty technology and learning program, classroom technology, web services, delivery of distance education, media production, print graphics and computer graphics, photography, and grants and contracts. She has an MA in Instructional Technology, BS in Computer Science and BA in Mathematics. Kathy has been instrumental for over 20 years planning and managing the introduction of academic technology campus-wide. Since 2007, she has also worked for the California State University Office of the Chancellor managing the LMS Initiatives for the 23-campus system.
Jacky Hood
Director, Open Textbook Project / Director, Open Educational Resources Consortium
Jacky Hood is Director of the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is also the Director of the 97-member Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. Jacky has been a consultant for organizations such as OnStor, RAE Systems, Ellie Mae, and WebEx. She held management positions at Bell-Northern Research, ROLM, Hewlett-Packard, and Slam Dunk Networks. Jacky holds US and Canadian patents, as well as a BSEE and a master’s in systems engineering. Jacky developed the Technical Support/Field Service/Customer Service curriculum for San Jose State University’s Professional Development Center. She is the author of four books and numerous articles. Jacky is an avid hiker and bicycled 4500 miles across the USA and Canada.
Marc Oehlman
Interim Associate Director, Center for Academic Technologies, California State University, Monterey Bay
Marc Oehlman is the Interim Associate Director of the Center for Academic Technologies at CSU Monterey Bay. Beyond the usual budget/expectations/research/engagement/quality/planning and emerging discussions, he finds time for open-source and cloud computing. With an educational background in photography and communications, he holds a deep-seated belief that technology should be simple, and beta tests everything on his parents, who are truly not geeks. He eschews computers on the weekend, save for the weekly post on Facebook, and derives great pleasure from the analog nature of life, from traditional silver-gelatin photography to his 1971 Land Rover. He can be serious as well.
Moderators
Maggie Beers
Director of Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
Dr. Maggie Beers is Director of Academic Technology at San Francisco State University (SF State) where she oversees the units that provide services, and best practices, for online learning and teaching, audiovisual equipment, enhanced classrooms, and instructional media and web development. She also coordinates visioning, planning and implementation of Academic Technology within SF State, and in collaboration with sister campuses in the California State University system. Maggie completed her Ph.D. in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (in Dr. Goldman's Multimedia Ethnographic Research Laboratory), where she investigated ways to prepare teachers to use educational technology to teach culture in second languages. She received her undergraduate and Master of Arts degrees in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has taught extensively in the US, Canada, Spain and France. Formerly, Maggie was an Instructional Development Consultant and the Academic Lead for the Technology Enabled Knowledge (TEK) Initiative at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a Polytechnic Institute.
Otto Khera
Director, Center for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern California
Otto Khera is currently the director of the Center for Scholarly Technology at the University of Southern California where he oversees an instructional design and instructional technology team that manages the conversion of traditional face-to-face courses to online modules, courses. His focus is on distance lealearning and globalization, and has published on online course delivery in a trans-national setting and accessing digital archives in developing countries. Otto has led major distance-learning grant projects to connect rural communities to universities, and has led two major private-sector new media projects relying on video and on text/print. Khera holds a post-Masters certificate (International and Global Communication) from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication where he will receive a Masters in Online Communities (May 2009). He holds an an MBA from Arizona State University, and two undergraduate degrees in finance and in economics. His current focus is on mobile technology for teaching and learning, and for transportation efficiencies.