Dr. Mary Kennedy

Ed.D., Indiana University

Email: mariafk@telus.net

Mail: Athabasca University (CDE)

I am Dr. Mary Kennedy. I am a sessional faculty member with the University of British Columbia, and a contractual faulty member with Royal Roads University. I have also served as a contractual and a sessional faculty member with University of Victoria, and I have adjunct faculty status with University of Calgary.

Prior to my move to British Columbia ten years ago, I taught on a graduate Educational Technology program at Memorial University of Nfld. (MUN) for thirteen years. My teaching areas were instructional design theory and application, educational technology theory, and program evaluation. I also worked as Director of Educational Television at a Nfld. hospital for 14 months, and have had sixteen years experience as a public school teacher and school administrator in Nfld.

Our Educational Technology graduate students at MUN were a diverse group, with backgrounds in health care, training in business and industry, community college, and the military, in addition to the school system. Working closely with them afforded me experience far beyond the formal education system. In my years there I supervised approximately 40 Master of Education theses, and served as a committee member on numerous others.

In the past twenty years I have been responsible for delivery of courses in instructional design, educational technology theory, program evaluation, and qualitative research. I have designed six distance education graduate courses, and have taught both online and correspondence courses. My research has been for the most part qualitative, and very often it has been funded, applied research in the form of program evaluations. As a member of the MUN Business Administration Centre for Management Development, I completed six major, federally funded program evaluations, in addition to approximately ten smaller evaluations completed with colleagues and graduate students.

I have provided leadership in my field by serving as president of AMTEC (Association for Media and Technology in Education In Canada) in 1990, and I was editor of CJEC (Canadian Journal of Educational Communication) from 1992-1995. AMTEC presented me with their Leadership Award in 1993. I have been an active member of AECT (Association for Educational Communication and Technology) for the past twenty years, and was recipient of two of their student awards in the past: The AECT Internship Award and the AECT Okoboji Award. I have presented numerous papers at conferences of both organizations over the years, and I continue my commitment to both professional groups. Until I recently co-edited AMTEC's revived journal (Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology) for a three year term.

My academic interests include instructional design, distance education, and of course program evaluation, where most of my research work has been focused. I also have an ongoing interest in developments in qualitative research, which I teach for UBC regularly. Online teaching I find equally enjoyable, and I regularly teach an online course in program evaluation at Royal Roads, in their MA in Distributed Learning program. I also supervise students' major projects at that institution.

 

CDE - Last Updated by MK December 03, 2010