Linda A. Jorn

Linda 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.