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George
Culp |
Min
Liu | Marilla
Svinicki |
Bruce
Andre |
Colleen
Jones
UT AUSTIN:
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George
Culp, Center for Instructional Technology,
UT Austin
George Culp is director for the Center
of Instructional Technologies (CIT) with
the Best Practices Project. Since 1972 he
has been assisting faculty at the
University of Texas at Austin in the use
of instructional computing. He also began
teaching graduate courses related to
computer-based instruction in the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
that year. In 1987, he became director of
Project QUEST, a project that supports the
innovative use of microcomputers in
teaching and research. Project QUEST has
awarded 581 faculty projects 1579
microcomputer systems. In 1997, he was
appointed associate director of Academic
Computing and Instructional Technology
Services (ACITS) and interim director of
the CIT. He has co-authored eight
textbooks related to the design and
development of instructional computing.
For more information, see
CIT:
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit and
George Culp:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~culp.
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Min Liu,
Instructional Technology, UT
Austin
Min Liu is an Assistant Professor at
the University of Texas at Austin in the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
She received her Ed.D. in Curriculum and
Instruction with a specialization in
instructional technology from West
Virginia University and then came to UT.
She teaches courses within the field of
Instructional Technology, including:
Instructional Systems Design, Hypermedia
in Instruction, Interactive Multimedia:
Design and Production, Computer Assisted
Instruction: Design and Development, and
Interactive Multimedia Research. Her
research interests center on the
educational uses of interactive multimedia
and hypermedia technology. She is
interested in investigating (1) the impact
of such technology on learning; (2)
learning strategies and learners'
characteristics in a hypermedia
environment; (3) the use of instructional
design principles to develop effective
courseware; and (4) the use of such
technology in teacher education and second
language learning. With this project, she
is serving as the instructional design
consultant.
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Marilla
Svinicki, Center for Teaching
Effectiveness, UT Austin
Marilla Svinicki is the Director of the
Center for Teaching Effectiveness at the
University of Texas at Austin and a Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Educational
Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in
Experimental Psychology with a
specialization in learning theory from the
University of Colorado at Boulder and then
taught psychology at Macalester College
before coming to UT. She teaches courses
at all levels in the application of
learning theory to instructional design,
both technological and non-technological,
and is interested in helping college level
faculty understand the learning processes
of their students. Her first position at
UT in 1974 was with a computer-based
eduation project in science and
engineering. Her interest in educational
technology has continued since then and is
evident in her own classes. With this
project she is serving as the
instructional design consultant in the
evaluation process as well as being one of
the individuals responsible for helping UT
faculty see ways to use technology in
their own teaching. Her facts page URL is
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/svinicki/.
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Bruce Andre,
Ph.D. Student - Instructional Technology,
UT Austin
Bruce Andre' is a student in the field
of Instructional Technology within the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
at the University of Texas at Austin. He
earned his B.S. degree in General Studies
from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
(1988). He earned a M.Ed. (Ed. Psych.)
from the University of Oklahoma in 1992.
He has been attending the University of
Texas as a Ph.D. student since the Spring
of 1996. He has been in the United States
Air Force (USAF) since 1979, working in
the field of imagery intelligence.
Throughout his military career, he has
focused his attention towards the dual
aspects of technology and training. For
the past four years he has been stationed
at the USAF Military Intelligence Training
Center at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San
Angelo, Texas. As the Imagery Training
Systems Program Manager, he has been
responsible for the design, acquisition,
installation, and implementation of a
multi-million dollar imagery intelligence
training system. He will retire from the
military in August 1999 and move to Austin
where he will work full time on his Ph.D.
His area of interest in instructional
technology lies in effective instructional
design for computer-based training with a
primary focus on adult technical skills
training. With this project, he is serving
as both an instructional designer and
researcher.
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Colleen
Jones, Ph.D. Student - Instructional
Technology, UT Austin
Colleen Jones is a student in the field
of Instructional Technology within the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin. She
earned both her B.S. degree in
Mathematics/Education (1993) and her M.S.
degree in Curriculum and Instruction
(1994) with a specialization in gifted and
talented students from Baylor University.
She has been attending the University of
Texas as a Ph.D. student since 1994. Her
teaching experience includes mathematics
and computer science at the high school
level for three years at Midway I.S.D. and
Pflugerville I.S.D. Since becoming a
full-time Ph.D. student in 1996, she has
worked in several capacities, including:
instructional designer of
ALI for Apple
Computer, Inc., instructional designer and
project manager for
Top Drawer
Productions, multimedia designer and
producer of the University of Texas CD-Rom
yearbook, instructional designer and
researcher for
ThermoNet (NSF grant),
and as an instructional designer and
producer of this project,
Best
Practices of Multimedia in the UT
System. Colleen's interests in
instructional technology revolve around
the design of effective hypermedia,
especially the design of web-based
instruction. With this project, she is
serving as both an instructional designer
and as a producer of the media advertising
the project. Her facts page URL is
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jonesc/index.htm.
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