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Mark Bullen, Ph.D. mbullen54@gmail.com Mark Bullen is the Dean of the Learning & Teaching Centre at the BC Institute of Technology. Before joining BCIT in 2005 he spent 23 years working in various positions in distance and online learning at UBC including Associate and Acting Director of the Distance Education & Technology department and Director of the Centre for Managing & Planning E-Learning (MAPLE). MAPLE research projects focused on institutional planning and management issues, policy, and social and educational impacts of e-learning. He has extensive international consulting experience related to online course development and the planning and management of e-learning and has taught workshops on developing and delivering online instruction and the planning and management of e-learning in Mexico, Malaysia, Taiwan, Bhutan, Croatia and Canada He has also been a consultant on distance education projects in Mongolia, Indonesia and Bhutan. Since 2006 he has been the editor of the Journal of Distance Education. He has a Ph.D. in Adult Education (1997), a Masters degree in Educational Psychology (1989) and a B.Ed. (1982) from the University of British Columbia. Mark also holds a Diploma of Technology in Broadcast Journalism (1977) from BCIT. Mark is one of the course authors for ETEC 511 Foundations of Educational Technology, and also teaches ETEC 520 Planning and Managing Technologies in Higher Education.
Stephen Carey, Ph.D.
sunah cho, Ph.D.Sunah Cho, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) is an Instructional Designer/Project Manager for the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC. She teaches ETEC 510 (Design of Technology-Supported Learning Environments). She provides leadership in the application of educational technology and research to the design anddevelopment of distance and blended learning courses. Of particular interest is developing effective interactive learning environments and extending partnership, as an instructional designer, in teaching and learning.
Alex de Cosson, Ph.D.Alex F. de Cosson, Ph.D., is an a/r/tographer who has worked as a professional sculptor exhibiting nationally and internationally for over twenty-five years. He recently walked/ran the Victoria International Marathon in 4 hours and 47minutes; a pedagogy of walking plays a central role in his understanding of being a teacher. Alex has an MFA from York University and was on the faculty of the Ontario College of Art and Design from 1989 to 2006 and is currently Coordinator of the Teaching From The Heart Cohort for the Teacher Education Office and Academic Advisor for the Burnaby Visual and Performing Arts Cohort. He is a Sessional Instructor in the Curriculum Studies Department and the MET program, for which he teaches ETEC 532. Alex has been an active member of Inner City Angels in Toronto, dedicated to bringing art to inner city school kids through artist-centered programs since 1987. He has been awarded numerous grants from, among others, the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the BC Arts Council. Alex was awarded the Gordon and Marion Smith Award for Excellence in Art Education, from UBC's Curriculum Studies Department, in 2003. Alex passionately believes that art and art making, in the broadest possible terms, are central to a curriculum of well-being in the classroom. His research interests are centered within arts-based and autobiographical ways of knowing and being. He has published in numerous educational journals and contributed chapters to books furthering arts-based forms of teaching and learning. In 2004 he was co-editor, with Rita L. Irwin, of A/r/tography: Rendering Self through Arts-Based Living Inquiry, published by Pacific Educational Press. And in 2007 he was a contributor to Gary Knowles & Ardra Coles, Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issues, published by Sage Publications.
Teresa Dobson, Ph.D.teresa [dot] dobson [at] ubc [dot] ca Teresa Dobson, Ph.D. (University of Alberta) is a faculty member in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She authored and teaches ETEC 540 Text Technologies: The Changing Spaces of Reading and Writing. She is co-recipient (with Jeff Miller) of the 2004 British Columbia Innovation Award in Educational Technology for ETEC 540. Her research interests include hypertext reading/writing, integrating computers in secondary humanities classrooms, digital literacy, and secondary English language arts teaching. For more information about her research and teaching interests, visit her website.
 John Egan, Ph.D.John P Egan, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) is Senior Manager, Strategic Curriculum Services at UBC, with many years' experience as an instructor, facilitator, course designer, program administrator, and educational researcher. He teaches ETEC 565. As a practitioner he has experience in the community, adult, corporate, private post-secondary and university-levels, in Canada and internationally. His work has been published in The Journal of Interprofessional Care, the International Dictionary of Adult Education, and the upcoming Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (2010). John holds a Ph.D. in Educational Studies (Adult Education) and an M.A. in Adult Education, both from UBC, as well as a B.A. in Communication Studies from SUNY Oswego.
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Franc Feng, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) is a course author and instructor for ETEC 531 Curriculum Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. With a background in electronic engineering and computing studies, Franc has expertise in programming, computer hardware design, microprocessor design, web-design, workplace training, business systems, consulting, multimedia, product evaluation, systems support, and digital curating. Current research interests include science-technology-studies, meta-cognition, e-portfolios, assessment, chaos/complexity/systems theory, cultural studies, environmental ethics, globalization, philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the sociology of knowledge. He has recently authored chapters in (Post) modern science (education): propositions and alternative paths (Peter Lang, 2001) and Unfolding bodymind: exploring possibility through education (Foundation for Educational Renewal, 2001), and published in Educational Insights.
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Dr. Diane P. Janes is currently an Associate Professor who served as Chair of the Education Department (2009-2011) before becoming Chair of the School of Professional Studies, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 2011. She joined CBU on July 1, 2009, after working with the University of Saskatchewan (UofS), where she was an Assistant Professor (instructional design) and member of the Centre for Distributed Learning (CDL), a research think-tank on technology and learning. Since the closing of the Extension Division at the UofS in late 2006, she has been a visiting professor with five graduate programs offered by Royal Roads University, Cape Breton University/Memorial University, Athabasca University, the University of Calgary, and of course UBC. She teaches both ETEC 530 and ETEC 510 in the MET.
Diane was a member of the core design team for the Post-Graduate Certificate in Technology-based Distributed Learning, the predecessor to the MET program. While much of her work is in online, web-based course development in the areas of nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, education, economics, law, political studies and physical therapy, she's also consulted on distance education, instructional development and program evaluation in Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. Diane has a Master's degree in educational technology and in 2005 completed a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include e-strategic planning, faculty development, collaborative online learning, online teaching pedagogy, e-research, program evaluation and instructional design.
Diane was book review editor for the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (formerly the Canadian Journal of Educational Communications) from 1993 to 2005. She has served as Prairie representative on the national board of the Canadian Association of Distance Education from 2004 to 2006, is a reviewer and editorial board member for several international journals, and has had a number of publications and conference presentations accepted. She co-edited a book with Dr. Mark Bullen entitled Making the Transition to E-learning: Strategies and Issues (Hershey, Pa.: Idea Publishing Group, 2006) and they have begun work on a second in the area of management and strategic planning for e-learning environments.
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Marianne Justus, Ph.D. (George Mason University, VA) teaches ETEC 511 - Foundations of Educational Technology and ETEC 521 - Indigeneity, Technology and Education in the MET Program. Dr. Justus provides consulting services in the area of online learning in global environments and technology integration in second and foreign language acquisition. Her international experience includes curriculum projects in Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Eastern Europe.
Dr. Justus lived in the Washington DC area for 10 years and served as Director for Continuing Professional Education at George Mason University; Manager of Information Technology programs at The George Washington University’s Virginia campus, and she managed corporate training programs in private industry for several years. She has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Phoenix since 2001, and mentors doctoral students in Education.
Dr. Justus has published and presented papers at annual conferences for the Society for Technology in Education; Society for Technology & Teacher Education; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the American Association for Computing in Education.
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Samia Khan, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. She teaches ETEC 533 Technology in the Mathematics and Science Classroom as well as new F2F graduate courses entitled Knowledge and the Internet and Computer-based Science Education for Future Science Teachers. She is the recipient of the New Scholar Award from the Canadian Society for Study in Education and the Prime Minister's Award of Canada for Teaching Excellence in Science, Technology and Mathematics. Her current research interests are on social media and change, learning (dis)abilities, and knowledge mobilization with digital technology. Recent tech research articles appear in Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Journal of Science Education and Technology; Computers and Education; Educational Technology, Research, and Development, and Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning.
More information: www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/Khan.html
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Jeff Miller, MA (University of British Columbia) is a course designer, project manager, and the MET coordinator within the Distance Education and Technology office at UBC. He assisted in developing the business and program plan for the MET program and coordinates the development and delivery of MET courses in Distance Education and Technology. He has been the instructional designer for ETEC 510, ETEC 520, ETEC 522 and ETEC 540 and has instructed ETEC 510, ETEC 520, and ETEC 540. Jeff is co-recipient (with Teresa Dobson) of the 2004 British Columbia Innovation Award in Educational Technology for ETEC 540. Jeff has developed online and mixed mode courses in a variety of disciplines, as well as whole programs of study at a distance in Canada and internationally. He has designed commercial educational CD-ROMs and multimedia, and provided faculty development workshops in pedagogy, technology, and collaborative learning at universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He is recipient of an Award of Merit (2002) from the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada for the design of the Pinel Biopsychology CD-ROM. His research interests include instructional design, collaborative learning, reusable media, multimedia, Marshall McLuhan and Walter Benjamin. Recent articles are published in Text Technology and Computing in the Humanities Working Papers.
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Samson NashonDr. Samson Madera Nashon, EdD, obtained his doctorate from OISE/University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP) at The University of British Columbia. He teaches ETEC 530: Constructivist Strategies for e-Learning. His research focuses on ways of teaching and learning generally and, in particular, students' alternative understandings that have roots in cultural backgrounds and curricula, and are accommodative of students with varying degrees of abilities. His research uses primarily contemporary theories of constructivism.
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stephen.petrina@ubc.ca
Stephen Petrina, PhD (University of Maryland) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. He co-authored and teaches ETEC 531 Curriculum Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. He teaches courses in research methodology and curriculum theory at the graduate level and courses in the secondary teacher education program at UBC. Research interests extend from art and design studies to science and technology studies. He is passionate about Academic Freedom and Intellectual Property Rights in education-- in courses and programs, and testified in what is currently higher education's most important academic freedom and intellectual property rights case: UBC Faculty Association versus MET. For a background on this case, see the article "How (and why) Digital Diploma Mills (don't) Work: Academic freedom, intellectual property rights and UBC's Master of Educational Technology program " in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor . See also the Academic Freedom and the Corporate University website for more information along with the Technology and Rights article and the companion course, Technology, Rights & the Public Interest . Currently he is exploring the interconnections among cognition, emotion(s), and technology within a how we learn (technology) across the lifespan perspective. Recent articles appear in Technology & Culture , History of Psychology , History of Education Quarterly and International Journal of Technology and Design Education .
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DAVID PORTERDavid Porter, MEd, PhD candidate (SFU) is a co-author of ETEC 522 Ventures in Learning Technology. David is Executive Director of BCcampus.ca and is a long-time advocate for the benefits of adapting new technology to deliver educational opportunities. David’s extensive experience in the education and training fields has included working with both public and private sector organizations. In the past two years he has consulted on distance education and open educational resource projects in Vietnam, Mongolia, and Malaysia and has led workshops on the design and management of innovative distance learning initiatives in the higher education and technical and vocational education and training sectors.
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Bio Pending.
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David Vogt is a scientist, innovator and innovation leader.
David began his career as a professional astronomer and observatory director, then science museum director, dot.com CEO, media lab research leader, and university-based innovation champion. He currently focuses his energy on a portfolio of innovation projects and start-up ventures.
Dr. Vogt is Director of Digital Learning Projects for the UBC Faculty of Education and Director of Innovation Strategy for the UBC MAGIC Lab. He has maintained a career-long interest in harnessing the learning potentials within emerging technologies. His unusual trajectory as an academic, innovator and businessman provides a unique perspective on the future of learning.
He is author and instructor of ETEC 522 Ventures in Learning Technology.
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