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Steve E. Carson Steve Carson is External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu). His responsibilities include sustainability initiatives; strategic partnerships with other organizations; MIT OpenCourseWare's support of opencourseware projects at other institutions; special projects in priority areas; and project evaluation.
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Dianne Donnelly Dianne Donnelly is the associate director of the composition program at the University of South Florida. In addition to her interests in rhetoric & composition and writing program administration, she is a creative writer and craft critic who addresses the theory and pedagogy of creative writing. She is the editor of the popular collection Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010), author of The Emergence of Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline (2011) and co-editor with Graeme Harper of Key Issues in Creative Writing (2012). She is a frequent presenter at the creative writing pedagogy forums at CCCC and AWP, secretary of the Florida WPA affiliate, and editorial board member of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.
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Graeme Harper Director of the University Honors College Oakland University Honorary Research Professor University of Bedfordshire (UK) Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries Bangor University/University of Wales Graeme Harper is Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries and Professor of Creative Writing at Bangor. As creative writer and as cultural critic (with specific interests in film/media and the creative industries), he is a regular international speaker. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) National Steering Committee on Practice-led Research, an honorary visiting professor (Professor of Creative Writing) in the School of Media, Art and Design at the University of Bedfordshire, Chair of the HE Group of the National Association of Writers in Education and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
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Charlie Lowe |
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Mike Palmquist Associate Vice Provost for Learning and Teaching Professor of English Colorado State University Mike Palmquist is a specialist in rhetoric and composition, has taught undergraduate writing courses and graduate seminars in rhetorical theory, computers and writing, research methodology, and nonfiction writing. His research interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and the use of hypertext/hypermedia in instructional settings. His work has appeared in journals including Computers and Compositions, Written Communication, IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication, Engineering Education, Kairos, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~mp/
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Daisy Pignetti Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin-Stout Daisy Pignetti’s passion for evaluating college-level writing blossomed as she worked as a teaching assistant during her M.A. and Ph.D. programs, and continues to grow in her current position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. While she was hired as a Rhetoric and Composition generalist, her teaching of the upper-level course, Advanced Rhetoric, led to a more involved role in the Professional Communication and Emerging Media program and eventually the newly created Master of Science in Technical and Professional Communication program.
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Alex Reid Associate Professor SUNY- Buffalo Alex Reid studies digital media networks with a particular interest in their operation within humanities pedagogy and scholarship. His book, The Two Virtuals: Composition and New Media, examines the intersection of technologies of virtual reality with philosophies of the virtual and considers how bringing these two discourses together offers insight into teaching writing. www.alex-reid.net
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Howard Rheingold Visiting Lecturer Stanford University Howard Rheingold is an artist, designer, theorist, community builder, critic, writer, and teacher; and one of the "driving minds behind our net-enabled, open, collaborative life" (http://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html). His specialties pertain to the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing). He was an early and active member of the Well, as well as the cofounder of HotWired and Electric Minds, two groundbreaking web communities. More recently, he's concerned with how collaboration is accomplished, and in particular, how media - in particular, sites like Wikipedia - are an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work together as a group. |
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Shirley Rose Professor of English Arizona State University Shirley K Rose is Professor of English and Director of ASU Writing Programs in the English Department on the Tempe campus, where she also teaches graduate courses in writing program administration. She directed the award-winning program in Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP). She also served as Assistant Head of the Purdue University Department of English. She is currently working on an analysis of results from a national survey of writing program administrators' preparation and expectations for pursuing the scholarship of administration with her co-investigator Jonikka Charlton of the University of Texas Pan American. https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1411622
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George Siemens Professor Athabasca University George Siemens is a strategist and researcher at the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University. Formerly, he was the Associate Director, R & D, Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba. He is the founder Complexive Systems Inc., an research and learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop approaches to meet the needs of changing learners, employees, and global education and business environments. Siemens has keynoted and presented at national and international conferences. http://www.elearnspace.org/
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Gregory L. Ulmer
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MC Morgan MC Morgan is a professor of English, former Director of The Writing Resource Center and former Director of Composition. He teaches academic writing, electronic rhetoric, technical writing and writing for the web and new media. In 2006 was awarded the BSU TELL Grant for Creating an Internship Opportunity: Blogging Interns.
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Bronwyn T. Williams Professor of English University of Louisville Bronwyn T. Williams teaches on issues of literacy, popular culture, and identity. His research has been primarily focused on the intersections between the literacy practices people engage in their daily lives, including their uses of popular culture, and the literacy practices they encounter in schools and universities. His work builds on scholarship in New Literacy Studies that maintains we should regard literacy not as a set of autonomous skills but instead as way of making meaning in different, sometimes overlapping domains of life can be found in his book Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading and Writing Online. https://louisville.edu/faculty/btwill02
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Janice Walker Professor Georgia Southern University Janice R. Walker is Professor of Writing and Linguistics and Chair of the IRB at Georgia Southern University. She has published journal articles and book chapters about online research, documentation, and writing, in addition to her two most recent books, The Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia UP, 2006) and Bookmarks: A Guide to Writing and Research (Longman, 2006). She is founder and coordinator of the Graduate Research Network at the annual Computers and Writing conference, and co-coordinator for the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy hosted by Georgia Southern University. http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/
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Susan Lang Associate Professor Texas Tech University
Research interests include computer-based instruction in composition and literature, intellectual property issues, hypertext, and textual theory. |
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Martin Weller Martin Weller is a professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK. He is into exploring the impact of new technologies for learners and academics. Recently this has coalesced under the broad, inadequate heading of 'digital scholarship'. He has chaired the first major elearning course at the Open University, with around 15,000 students annually. He was also the director of the VLE project and the SocialLearn project at the OU. |
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David Wiley David Wiley was recently named an OLNet Expert Fellow at The Open University. He is also founder of the Open High School of Utah and Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge. David was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER grant, and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. David is also the founder of OpenContent.org. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world. |
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