Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno (San Jose State University)

Dr. Gorney-Moreno currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Academic Technology at San José State University (SJSU), where she leads the Website, Smart and Incubator Classrooms, Media Production and Delivery, Instructional Technology Technical Support, Video Services and Academic Television Network teams. Dr. Gorney-Moreno is on the Editorial Board for Campus Technology and is a 2003 FRYE graduate.
Dr. Gorney-Moreno received Campus Technology's Innovator Award for Learning Space Design August 2007 for the design, buildout, and operation of a 10,000 square foot informal and formal learning space anchored with a high tech Incubator (Studio) formal learning space for pedagogical innovation, staffed with an instructional designer and instructional technician for faculty course redesign support. Faculty submit proposals to teach in this innovative learning space.
In July 2003, Dr. Gorney-Moreno was awarded a $453,000 lottery grant to implement a wireless, mandatory purchase laptop project for the School of Art and Design, School of Journalism and College of Education at SJSU. She is also working with a team that was awarded a $220,000 Mobility Grant by Hewlett Packard for testing the efficacy of using PDA’s versus tablets or notebooks with teams of engineering and business students in a wireless environment. Dr. Gorney-Moreno was Project Director for “Painless,” a web-based simulation (www.cdl.edu/painless) on pain management. She served as a peer reviewer in the Health Sciences for MERLOT from 2001-2002. She and her team recently completed an 18 month Website Redesign Project and a 12-month Smart Classroom upgrade project for the university. Dr. Gorney-Moreno earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Higher, Adult and Continuing Education.