Faculty

Lanny Arvan

Lanny Arvan is the CIO and Associate Dean for eLearning in the College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His main charge in this new role is to shepherd the College of Business into becoming a prominent player in eLearning, by moving to "blended" learning offerings for residential undergraduate students, for students in the part time MBA program and the various Chicago programs, and by beginning some totally online offerings for students at a distance. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics and continues to teach economics courses, most recently to freshmen honors students, and uses his teaching to explore about learning and effective uses of technology for engaging students. He writes a blog, Lanny on Learning Technology, http://lanny-on-learn-tech.blogspot.com, with reflections on his teaching experience and on issues that the profession as a whole confronts. Prior to his College of Business appointment, he was the Assitannt CIO for Learning Technology for the campus where he oversaw support of the faculty development programs and services such as the Course Management System and the Smart Classrooms. This, in turn, followed earlier leadership roles, directing the Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE) and the Center for Educational Technology (CET) http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/about/history.html.

Gayle R. Barton

Gayle R. Barton is the Chief Information Technology Officer at Swarthmore College where she leads all information services activities including academic technology and related initiatives, administrative information systems, media services, networks, systems, and telecommunications. Barton was previously the Director of Instructional Technology at Williams College, Director of Administrative Computing at Clarkson University, and she held several positions in academic and administrative computing at St. Lawrence University. Barton has been active in the professional community, particularly in organizing and presenting at NERCOMP SIGs. She is on the faculty of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership Institute.

Malcolm B. Brown

Malcolm Brown is Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College. His group supports the applications of computing in research and the curriculum. Academic Computing is also responsible for classroom technology support as well as video production. He has worked actively with the ELI, contributing chapters the ebooks, helping to plan focus sessions, and serves on the ELI Advisory board. He is a member of the Educause Evolving Technologies committee and is on the faculty of the Educause Learning Technology Leadership workshop. He has been on the board for the Horizon report for the past three years and served as Chair of Board of the New Medium Consortium. Malcolm holds a pair of BA degrees from UC Santa Cruz, studied in Freiburg, Germany, on a pair of Fulbright scholarships, and has a PhD in German Studies from Stanford University. He has taught several courses in Dartmouth’s Jewish Studies program. He is a member of the Frye Institute class of 2002.

Shelli B. Fowler

Shelli Fowler is the Executive Director of Graduate Development Programs & New Pedagogies in Learning Technologies, a division of the Office of Information Technology, at Virginia Tech. One of her primary responsibilities is to help foster wider adoption of technology-enhanced active learning across all departments and colleges. As a result, she co-created and directs the Graduate Education Development Institute (GEDI), a collaborative initiative between Learning Technologies and the Graduate School at Virginia Tech. GEDI is intended to provide professional development opportunities for the future faculty. She teaches three graduate courses in contemporary pedagogy annually in GEDI. Each year, approximately 120 graduate student instructors take the semester-long, for-credit, graduate seminars, where they develop a pedagogical praxis that addresses the needs of contemporary learners by exploring the critically engaged use of technologies for 21st-century teaching & learning. Shelli is also an Associate Professor in the Department of English. Her research areas and publications focus on critical pedagogy and the integration of teaching, learning, and technologies, and she is the recipient of several teaching awards. Shelli earned her doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin.

Perry O. Hanson, III

Perry Hanson is Vice President and Vice Provost for Libraries and Information Technology at Brandeis University, where he leads all information services activities including libraries, academic technology and related initiatives, administrative information systems, telecommunications, media services, networks, and systems. Hanson previously was the Chief Technology Officer at Williams College, Director of Information Systems and Telecommunications at Wellesley College, and Director of Information Systems at Clark University. For the past decade, Hanson has been active in the professional community, serving on the EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Bridges Taskforce (now the Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning), chairing the nomination and election committee of both CAUSE and EDUCAUSE, and serving on CAUSE Information Exchange Committee. During this time, he chaired both the Board of the Seminars on Academic Computing and the NERCOMP Board of Trustees. In addition, he served on the EDUCAUSE Board of Trustees as Treasurer, Vice Chair, and Chair. He presently serves as a member of the EDUCAUSE Recognition Committee and is on the faculty of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership Institute.

Linda A. Jorn

Linda Jorn is the director of the Digital Media Center (DMC), Office of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. DMC team members provide research and evaluation, usability, accessibility, training, professional development, and consultation services. Linda is part of the University of Minnesota’s Academic Technology management team that supports an increasing array of educational technology tools and services that support over 55,000 students and 2,600 instructors a semester. In her role as director of the DMC, she has brought in over $3,642,000 in grant and project money, has lead or held membership in over 26 University of Minnesota educational technology committees/councils, and has co-chaired the Office of Information Technology’s Academic Technology Advisory Committee since 1999. She has served on the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning and served as the CIC Learning Technology chair-elect, chair, and chair emeritus. In addition she has served on nine CIC and national conference and program planning committees (e.g., EDUCAUSE, Campus Technology). Currently Linda is an EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Advisory Board member and faculty for the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership Program. Linda has a twenty-year history of publishing and presenting about the impact of technology on teaching and learning with over 84 presentations, 19 grants, and 16 publications. She is dedicated to an interdisciplinary intellectual approach to designing educational technology services and support by drawing on key theories and practices from such disciplines as education, rhetoric, communication, computer science, and leadership.