NLII Fellows Program

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The NLII operated the Fellows Program from 2000-2004 as a way of engaging individual members of the NLII community in research of particular interest to the organization and its members. NLII Fellows were chosen from a competitive pool of applicants and conducted specific research projects that expanded the NLII knowledge base. The Fellows also contributed to the general planning and development of the NLII's issues agenda.

2004 Fellows

Jean Kreis
Program Coordinator, Learning Technologies Center
University of Arizona
520-626-8071
jeank@u.arizona.edu
Research concentration: Bridging instructional research with practice

Work products:

Co-designed and facilitated the Spring 2004 Online Focus Session on Empowering Institutional Communities of Practice to Transform Teaching and Learning
Ongoing development of MOATS, a tool that provides a framework for selecting effective strategies and activities that lead to specific learning outcomes
Bridging Virtual Community of Practice facilitator
Co-designed and facilitated the Summer 2004 Focus Session onBridging Communities of Research and Practice to Transform Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Developing a workbook on Appreciative Inquiry use in higher education
Fellows page (including works in progress) is at http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~jeank

Cyprien Lomas
Research Associate
Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Science
University of British Columbia
604-822-1919
cyprien.lomas@ubc.ca
Research concentration : Identifying Emerging Technologies, their applications and the potential academic value within higher education.

Work products:

Helped conduct the Summer 2004 Focus Session on Bridging Research and Practice
Helped plan and conduct the Fall 2004 Focus Session on Learning Space Design
Primary planner for the Spring 2005 Focus Session on Emerging Technologies
Horizon Project VCOP facilitator
Serve on the NMC - NLII Horizon Project Advisory board
Developing an assessment framework for evaluating new and emerging technologies
Help plan and conduct the 'Experience It' track for the NLII Annual Meeting 2005
Create content for the NLII Learning Technologies weblog
Fellows page (including works in progress) is at http://www.skylight.science.ubc.ca/cyprienl/

2003 Fellows

Darren Cambridge
Assistant Professor in the New Century College
George Mason University
202-270-5224
Research concentration: Virtual Communities of Practice and Electronic Portfolios

Work products:

Served as VCOP Initiative team coleader, supporting four pilot communities of practice, with more than 500 members and their facilitators/moderators. The VCOPs included the Learning Objects, the New Academy, the Teaching and Learning, and E-Portfolios (EPAC).
Cofacilitated the EPAC. The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) and the ePortConsortium both owed their growth, in part, to connections formed through EPAC membership. The EPAC continues to serve as an important venue through which these groups publicize their work and make connections to other groups' work.
John Ittelson and Darren Cambridge were both involved in the leadership of OSPI and in the writing of the ePortConsortium white paper released at EDUCAUSE 2003.
EPAC organized a meeting at the AAHE Assessment Conference where experts on assessment advised the OSPI developers on assessment-related functionality.
EPAC helped publicize and increase access to the products of events such as the Clemson Digital Portfolio Institutes and the e-Portfolios 2003 International Conference where three of the five keynote speakers were EPAC members.
Under Cambridge's leadership as EDUCAUSE's IMS Technical Board representative, the e-portfolio working group has developed a specification that will make it possible to move e-portfolios between e-portfolio systems, a fundamental requirement for the use of e-portfolios as lifelong learning tools (issued as a public draft in the summer of 2004). Several vendors participated actively in the development process and indicated their intention to adopt the specification in future releases of their e-portfolio products.

Patricia McGee
Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Curriculum and Instruction
University of Texas at San Antonio
512-289-4464
pmcgee@utsa.edu
Research concentration: Learner-centered principles applied to next-generation course management systems and learning objects

Work products:

Helped plan and conduct the Spring 2003 Focus Session onNext-Generation Course Management Systems.
Based on the deeper learning principles developed by Carmean and Haefner, McGee created an observation tool for reflecting on the use of course management systems to support deeper learning.
Headed a working group following up on the Spring 2003 Focus Session on Next-Generation Course Management Systems with a glossary of terms, a refined conceptual framework for learner-centered principles, and a refined functional requirements matrix.
Helped plan and conduct the Fall 2003 Focus Sessionon Learning Objects.
Through the Learning Objects work group, developing a glossary, an observation tool for reflecting on the use of learning objects to support deeper learning, and a learning object on learning objects. (See http://educ3.utsa.edu/pmcgee/nlii/for all work products.)

2002 Fellows

Colleen Carmean
Director of Consulting Services for Information Technology
Arizona State University West
602-543-8271
carmean@asu.edu
Research concentration: Learner-centered principles

Work products:

Helped plan Summer 2002 Focus Session on Learning Environment Design
Developed two articles, "Next-Generation Course Management Systems," [71 KB PDF] and "Mind over Matter: Transforming Course Management Systems into Learning Environments." [260 KB PDF]
Developed a Web site, "Mapping the Learning Space," a conceptual framework for thinking about deeper learning; teaching and learning activities; the use of technology, assessment, and design; and the relationship among these items.
Helped plan and conduct the Spring 2003 Focus Session on "Next-Generation Course Management Systems," which resulted in a prioritized list of functional requirements for next-generation course management systems.
Served as the as a coeditor of the MERLOT Teaching and Technology Editorial Board during 2003 and 2004, helping to develop that collection.

Jeremy Haefner
Dean, Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
719-262-3543
haefner@eas.uccs.edu
Research concentration: Learner-centered principles

Work products:

Helped plan Summer 2002 Focus Session on Learning Environment Design
Developed READY system Strategic Planning and Alignment branch, based on research and on results of Knibb's harvest of Spring 2001 Focus Session.

2001 Fellows

John Ittelson
Director, Interactive Design and Educational Applications Lab (IDEA Lab)
California State University–Monterey Bay
831-582-3790
John_Ittelson@csumb.edu
Research concentration: Electronic portfolios

Work products:

Developed a database (subsequently incorporated into AAHE e-portfolio database)
Organized the E-Portfolios Virtual Community of Practice (EPAC) with representatives from the Stanford Learning Lab, the Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, University of Alaska Anchorage, Northwestern University, and University of Washington. The community helped plan the Fall 2002 Focus Session.

Helen Knibb
Learning Designer
Bell Institute for Learning Design, Learning Resource Centres, Sir Sandford Fleming College
705-749-5520 x1342
hknibb@flemingc.on.ca
Research concentration: Learner-centered instructional design and practices

Work products:

Researched innovative, learner-centered instructional design and practices and wrote a paper on we know about learning and cognition, how people learn best, and how to design teaching and learning strategies that are most effective in the online environment.
Researched learner-centered principles, which formed the basis of the work on the topic done by 2002 Fellows Carmean and Haefner.
Assisted in planning and collecting the results of the Spring 2001 Focus Session, "Planning for Transformation."

2000 Fellows

Paul Hagner
Senior Advisor, Technology Planning and Assessment, President's Office
University of Hartford
860-768-5207
prhagner@hartford.edu
Research concentration: Faculty development

Work products:

Spring 2000 Focus Session, "Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology: Faculty Engagement and Support"
White paper on faculty engagement, "Interesting Practices and Best Systems in Faculty Engagement and Support" [95 KB PDF]
Coedited, with Carole Barone, Volume 5 in the Jossey-Bass EDUCAUSE Leadership Series, "Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning: Leading and Supporting the Transformation on Your Campus"

Anne Archambault
Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Research concentration: Groupware

Work products:

Led a small team of NLII and other EDUCAUSE staff in an analysis of the potential of groupware and community-oriented technologies to extend networking and mutual support for EDUCAUSE members beyond conferences and workshops, as well as the feasibility of providing such a service. Four pilot projects were carried out to evaluate software to support online teams and communities: an internal working group of NLII staff, a task force of EDUCAUSE members, a project team working on the Decision Engine, and an online environment to extend Fall Focus Session attendees' interactions beyond the meeting.
Developed an internal report and a set of functional requirements for groupware.

ELI Archives Archived ELI Topics Archived NLII Topics		NLII Fellows Program ELI is no longer actively pursuing this topic. This page is provided as an historical resource; it is not being updated or actively managed. The NLII operated the Fellows Program from 2000-2004 as a way of engaging individual members of the NLII community in research of particular interest to the organization and its members. NLII Fellows were chosen from a competitive pool of applicants and conducted specific research projects that expanded the NLII knowledge base. The Fellows also contributed to the general planning and development of the NLII's issues agenda. 2004 Fellows Jean Kreis Program Coordinator, Learning Technologies Center University of Arizona 520-626-8071 jeank@u.arizona.edu Research concentration: Bridging instructional research with practice Work products: Co-designed and facilitated the Spring 2004 Online Focus Session on Empowering Institutional Communities of Practice to Transform Teaching and Learning Ongoing development of MOATS, a tool that provides a framework for selecting effective strategies and activities that lead to specific learning outcomes Bridging Virtual Community of Practice facilitator Co-designed and facilitated the Summer 2004 Focus Session onBridging Communities of Research and Practice to Transform Higher Education Teaching and Learning Developing a workbook on Appreciative Inquiry use in higher education Fellows page (including works in progress) is at http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~jeank Cyprien Lomas Research Associate Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Science University of British Columbia 604-822-1919 cyprien.lomas@ubc.ca Research concentration : Identifying Emerging Technologies, their applications and the potential academic value within higher education. Work products: Helped conduct the Summer 2004 Focus Session on Bridging Research and Practice Helped plan and conduct the Fall 2004 Focus Session on Learning Space Design Primary planner for the Spring 2005 Focus Session on Emerging Technologies Horizon Project VCOP facilitator Serve on the NMC - NLII Horizon Project Advisory board Developing an assessment framework for evaluating new and emerging technologies Help plan and conduct the 'Experience It' track for the NLII Annual Meeting 2005 Create content for the NLII Learning Technologies weblog Fellows page (including works in progress) is at http://www.skylight.science.ubc.ca/cyprienl/ 2003 Fellows Darren Cambridge Assistant Professor in the New Century College George Mason University 202-270-5224 Research concentration: Virtual Communities of Practice and Electronic Portfolios Work products: Served as VCOP Initiative team coleader, supporting four pilot communities of practice, with more than 500 members and their facilitators/moderators. The VCOPs included the Learning Objects, the New Academy, the Teaching and Learning, and E-Portfolios (EPAC). Cofacilitated the EPAC. The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) and the ePortConsortium both owed their growth, in part, to connections formed through EPAC membership. The EPAC continues to serve as an important venue through which these groups publicize their work and make connections to other groups' work. John Ittelson and Darren Cambridge were both involved in the leadership of OSPI and in the writing of the ePortConsortium white paper released at EDUCAUSE 2003. EPAC organized a meeting at the AAHE Assessment Conference where experts on assessment advised the OSPI developers on assessment-related functionality. EPAC helped publicize and increase access to the products of events such as the Clemson Digital Portfolio Institutes and the e-Portfolios 2003 International Conference where three of the five keynote speakers were EPAC members. Under Cambridge's leadership as EDUCAUSE's IMS Technical Board representative, the e-portfolio working group has developed a specification that will make it possible to move e-portfolios between e-portfolio systems, a fundamental requirement for the use of e-portfolios as lifelong learning tools (issued as a public draft in the summer of 2004). Several vendors participated actively in the development process and indicated their intention to adopt the specification in future releases of their e-portfolio products. Patricia McGee Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Curriculum and Instruction University of Texas at San Antonio 512-289-4464 pmcgee@utsa.edu Research concentration: Learner-centered principles applied to next-generation course management systems and learning objects Work products: Helped plan and conduct the Spring 2003 Focus Session onNext-Generation Course Management Systems. Based on the deeper learning principles developed by Carmean and Haefner, McGee created an observation tool for reflecting on the use of course management systems to support deeper learning. Headed a working group following up on the Spring 2003 Focus Session on Next-Generation Course Management Systems with a glossary of terms, a refined conceptual framework for learner-centered principles, and a refined functional requirements matrix. Helped plan and conduct the Fall 2003 Focus Sessionon Learning Objects. Through the Learning Objects work group, developing a glossary, an observation tool for reflecting on the use of learning objects to support deeper learning, and a learning object on learning objects. (See http://educ3.utsa.edu/pmcgee/nlii/for all work products.) 2002 Fellows Colleen Carmean Director of Consulting Services for Information Technology Arizona State University West 602-543-8271 carmean@asu.edu Research concentration: Learner-centered principles Work products: Helped plan Summer 2002 Focus Session on Learning Environment Design Developed two articles, "Next-Generation Course Management Systems," [71 KB PDF] and "Mind over Matter: Transforming Course Management Systems into Learning Environments." [260 KB PDF] Developed a Web site, "Mapping the Learning Space," a conceptual framework for thinking about deeper learning; teaching and learning activities; the use of technology, assessment, and design; and the relationship among these items. Helped plan and conduct the Spring 2003 Focus Session on "Next-Generation Course Management Systems," which resulted in a prioritized list of functional requirements for next-generation course management systems. Served as the as a coeditor of the MERLOT Teaching and Technology Editorial Board during 2003 and 2004, helping to develop that collection. Jeremy Haefner Dean, Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 719-262-3543 haefner@eas.uccs.edu Research concentration: Learner-centered principles Work products: Helped plan Summer 2002 Focus Session on Learning Environment Design Developed READY system Strategic Planning and Alignment branch, based on research and on results of Knibb's harvest of Spring 2001 Focus Session. 2001 Fellows John Ittelson Director, Interactive Design and Educational Applications Lab (IDEA Lab) California State University–Monterey Bay 831-582-3790 John_Ittelson@csumb.edu Research concentration: Electronic portfolios Work products: Developed a database (subsequently incorporated into AAHE e-portfolio database) Organized the E-Portfolios Virtual Community of Practice (EPAC) with representatives from the Stanford Learning Lab, the Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, University of Alaska Anchorage, Northwestern University, and University of Washington. The community helped plan the Fall 2002 Focus Session. Helen Knibb Learning Designer Bell Institute for Learning Design, Learning Resource Centres, Sir Sandford Fleming College 705-749-5520 x1342 hknibb@flemingc.on.ca Research concentration: Learner-centered instructional design and practices Work products: Researched innovative, learner-centered instructional design and practices and wrote a paper on we know about learning and cognition, how people learn best, and how to design teaching and learning strategies that are most effective in the online environment. Researched learner-centered principles, which formed the basis of the work on the topic done by 2002 Fellows Carmean and Haefner. Assisted in planning and collecting the results of the Spring 2001 Focus Session, "Planning for Transformation." 2000 Fellows Paul Hagner Senior Advisor, Technology Planning and Assessment, President's Office University of Hartford 860-768-5207 prhagner@hartford.edu Research concentration: Faculty development Work products: Spring 2000 Focus Session, "Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology: Faculty Engagement and Support" White paper on faculty engagement, "Interesting Practices and Best Systems in Faculty Engagement and Support" [95 KB PDF] Coedited, with Carole Barone, Volume 5 in the Jossey-Bass EDUCAUSE Leadership Series, "Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning: Leading and Supporting the Transformation on Your Campus" Anne Archambault Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Research concentration: Groupware Work products: Led a small team of NLII and other EDUCAUSE staff in an analysis of the potential of groupware and community-oriented technologies to extend networking and mutual support for EDUCAUSE members beyond conferences and workshops, as well as the feasibility of providing such a service. Four pilot projects were carried out to evaluate software to support online teams and communities: an internal working group of NLII staff, a task force of EDUCAUSE members, a project team working on the Decision Engine, and an online environment to extend Fall Focus Session attendees' interactions beyond the meeting. Developed an internal report and a set of functional requirements for groupware.
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