ELI Appoints Campbell as Scholar-in-Residence

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has announced the appointment of John P. Campbell as an ELI scholar-in-residence for 2007.  During his tenure with ELI, he will continue in his current position as associate vice president of teaching and learning technologies at Purdue University.

For ELI, Campbell will lead a project exploring the state of analytics in higher education, as well as how it can address some of higher education’s most important issues. According to EDUCAUSE Vice President and ELI Director Diana Oblinger, “John brings unique experience with insight into the use of analytics to improve student success. This is one of higher education’s most challenging problems so it merits the use of the most powerful tools at our disposal. John will help us not just understand what analytics means for higher education but what might be possible in this critical area.”

At Purdue, Campbell oversees the four functional groups of enterprise learning technologies, learning spaces, instructional design and development, and project management. He provides leadership and vision for the university’s use of instructional technology in support of residential and distance learning, overseeing a staff of 80 professionals who provide faculty support and training and manage server architecture, instructional software, 60 computer laboratories, 220 technology-enhanced classrooms, and associated infrastructure.

Campbell's numerous accomplishments at Purdue include implementing a course management system for 70,000 students across four regional campuses, enabling a common audience response system for more than 300 classrooms on multiple campuses, co-founding a high performance classroom project to integrate supercomputing functionality in the undergraduate curriculum; creating a digital learning collaboratory with the university libraries, deploying a mobile learning infrastructure, and securing more than $5 million in external funding to support learning and technology initiatives.

Campbell previously held positions as interim associate VP for infrastructure systems and director of the Multimedia Instructional Development Center at Purdue, managing director of the Center for Instructional Technology, and instructional designer and training manager at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively in refereed scholarly journals in education on instructional design, computer-mediated communications for distance learning, evaluating interactive video hardware, and learning with media. He has given numerous presentations at professional conferences such as EDUCAUSE, ELI, CIC, Academic Impressions, Campus Technology, International Assessment and Retention Conference, International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, and the American Educational Research Association, among others. His broad service to the profession includes active membership on EDUCAUSE bodies such as the Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning, ELI Program Committee, and the Instructional Technology Institute Advisory Committee; Blackboard Product Merger Advisory Board; Committee for Institutional Cooperation; Higher Learning Commission Program to Evaluate and Access Quality; and WebCT Advisory Board.

About EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 250 corporations, with 17,000 active members. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at www.educause.edu.

About The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) helps institutions advance learning through IT innovation. ELI is a community that works together to stay on the leading edge of teaching and learning with technology through a focus on learners, interaction and engagement, and learning technologies. ELI brings value to members through exploration, awareness, and enablement. Learn more about ELI at www.educause.edu/eli.