overview
Associate Professor of Distance Learning, Training and Development, Department of Adult and Higher Education (AHE), College of Education,
Adjunct Faculty Member, Ergonomics, Department of Psychology (PSYCH), and Affiliated Faculty Member, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (ENG/COM), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NC State University. Member of the Technical Communication Faculty (ENGL), 1991-2001. PhD in Rhetoric and Document Design, Carnegie Mellon University (focus on online information design, usability, and human-computer interaction), and BA and MA, University of Waterloo (focus on computer-assisted learning and computational text analysis).
"... the essence of change and growth, a drawing nearer to an ideal state"
research
My research has always been intimately connected with communication and instruction, focusing on the design and evaluation of online information, human-computer interaction, usability, and teaching and learning with technology [more...].
teaching
This summer I'm teaching EAC 586. The first undergraduate course I taught 20 years ago was entitled Computer-Assisted Learning and, recently, I taught a doctoral course on Research in Web-Based Instruction; while the technological landscape has changed dramatically, many of the fundamental challenges facing technologists, researchers, educators, and users remain very much the same [more...].
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul" (Saint Augustine)
