Faculty, Part-Time & Contract Instructors

Core Faculty

Part-Time & Contract

Ally, Mohamed (short bio) Anderson, Terry (short bio) Cleveland-Innes, Marti   (short bio) Fahy, Patrick (short bio) Hoven, Debra (short bio) Jones, Tom (short bio) McGreal, Rory (short bio) Moisey, Susan (short bio) Siemens, George Spencer, Bob (short bio)

Akyol, Zehra Alam, Matiul Bartlette, Deb Baskett, H. K. (Morris) Blodgett-Griffin, Cynthia Bullen, Mark Burkle, Martha Childs, Elizabeth Conrad, Dianne Crawford, Douglas Crawford, Gail Eastman, Brad Francis-Poscente, Krista Gibb, Tara Grant, Lyle Ives, Cindy Janes, Diane Kanuka, Heather Kennedy, Mary Koole, Marguerite Latchem, Colin McCallum, Maureen McKinnon, Norm Montgomerie, Craig Mugridge, Ian Peruniak, Geoff Powley, Roger Reid, Doug Richards, Griff Rubin, Eugene Siemens, George Spronk, Barbara Tsinakos, Avgoustos A. Young, Arlene Welton, Michael

 

Faculty Interests at a Glance

Ally, Mohamed (Director)
mohameda@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BSc - Chemistry
MA - Educational Technology
PhD - Educational Psychology

Interests:

• Mobile Learning
• Instructional design
• Computer based training
• Distance education
• Multi-media in distance education and individualized instruction
• Support systems for distance education
• Organizational planning and development
• Adult education
• Program competency profile development
• Occupational analysis development

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Anderson, Terry             
terrya@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA - Psychology
BEd - Industrials Arts
MSc - Computer Education
PhD - Educational Psychology

Interests:

• Research and evaluation in distance education
• Social cognition and collaborative learning
• Management of distance educational systems
• Educational Technologies, web enhanced learning
• Learning objects and the semantic web

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Cleveland-Innes, Marti    
martic@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA -  Sociology (Family Studies)
MA - Sociology (Adult Education)
PhD - Adult and Higher Education

Interests:

• Social factors in distance education
• Learner-centered curriculum design and delivery
• Instructional design for graduate research methods
• Leadership in distance education

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Fahy, Patrick                       
patf@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BSc - Education
MEd - Secondary Education
PhD - Secondary Education

Interests:

• Research ethics
• Technology in education and training
• Adult education
• Computer-assisted, computer-managed learning
• Distance training in competency-based environments
• Staff development; professional training
• Evaluation and assessment in distance education
• Corporate, aviation and military training

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Hoven, Debra                            
debrah@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

PhD
RSA Grad Dip (TESL FACE)
B Ed Stud
BA

Interests:

• Innovative approaches to teaching and learning
• Intercultural perspectives on changing pedagogies
• Learning-centred instructional design
• Sociocultural/Social constructivist perspectives on learning theory
• Multimedia technology
• Computer mediated communications and social networking software
• Learner individual differences
• Educational provision for Gifted and Talented children
• Bilingual and immersion language programs
• Digital storytelling

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Jones, Tom                            
tomj@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

Bcomm - Business
MEd - Education
PhD - Education

Interests:

• Research and evaluation methods
• Interactive technologies in education and training
• Human to computer interaction
• Multi-media applications

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McGreal, Rory

rory@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications

BA - Joint Honours Russian and History
BEd
MA - Applied Linguistics (Instructional Design)
PhD - Computer Technologies in Education

Interests:

• Open Educational Resources
• Open Learning
• Mobile Learning
• Distance Education Administration
• Instructional design
• Distance education
  

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Moisey, Susan                  
susanh@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA - Art History
MEd - Education Administration
PhD - Educational Psychology

Interests:

• Instructional design
• Learning objects
• Community building
• Distance Education for students with disabilities
• Inclusive education

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Spencer, Bob                        
bobs@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA - Psychology
MA - Psychology/Human Development
PhD - Developmental Psychology

Interests:

• Research and evaluation in distance education
• Individualized instruction
• Management of distance educational systems
• Instructional design and evaluation

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Part-time & Contract Faculty Profiles

Blodgett, Cynthia
cynthiab@athabascau.ca
Biography

BS - Mass Communications/Industrial Studies
MA - Adult Education
PHD - Education and Human Sciences

Interests:

• Adult development
• Motivation
• Cognition and Learning
• Brain injury
• Web design and information access
• Qualitative research
• Instructional design

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Bullen, Mark                     
mark.bullen@athabascau.ca
Biography

BA - Education (Elementary)
MA - Educational Psychology
PhD - Adult Education

Interests:

• Critical thinking and collaborative learning in online learning environments
• Instructional design issues in online learning

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Childs, Elizabeth
echilds@ucalgary.ca
Biography

BA - Science and Psychology Honours
MA - Educational Technology
PhD - Educational Technology
           
Interests:

• Online professional development for educators in a variety of sectors
• Preparing teachers/facilitators/
  organizations for moving to blended and/or online learning
• Models for blended learning
• Instructional design and development considerations for blended and/or online learning environments

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Crawford, Douglas            
dougc@athabascau.ca
Biography

BA - Psychology
MA - Clinical Psychology
Teacher Ceritificate - Professsional Advanced
PhD - Educational Theory

Interests:

• Competency-based curriculum/course development
• Analysis, planning, development, implementation and assessment of distance and open learning systems
• Application of instructional systems design/development (ISD) to education and training
• Planning, development and implementation of innovative, individualized, classroom-free continuous progress high schools

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Crawford, Gail                      
gail@athabascau.ca
Biography

Dip - Nursing
BA - Psychology
MA - Educational Theory
PhD - Educational Psychology

Interests:

• Learning systems design
• Preparation of instruction materials
• Program design, development and evaluation
• Instructional principles for technical/vocational education
• Electronically based course delivery systems
• Graduate education at a distance

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Grant, Lyle
lyle@athabascau.ca
Biography

BA  Psychology
MA  Educational Psychology
PhD Educational Psychology

Interests:

• Instructional psychology
• Distance education
• Concept Learning
• Computer-based instruction
• Behaviour analysis of education
• Self-control processes

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Janes, Diane   
Diane_Janes@cbu.ca
Biography

BA - History/Political Science
MEd - Educational Technology and Communications
PhD - Educational Studies

Interests:

• e-research
• e-policy
• e-moderation and blended learning
• Teaching and learning theory
• Program evaluation
• Instructional design
• Faculty professional development in technology

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Kennedy, Mary                  
kennedymf@aol.com
Biography

BA(Ed) - English
MEd - Educational Technology
EdD - Educational Technology

Interests:

• Program evaluation in education and training
• Instructional design and development
• Qualitative research methods

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Latchem, Colin                 
clatchem@iinet.net.au
Biography

NDD, ATD, Cert ED - Art Education
MEd - Curriculum, Educational Technology
Educational Management & Librarianship

Interests:

• Open and distance education in development and developing countries
• Leadership and management for education change
• Staff development in open and flexible learning
• Management of distance education systems

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McKinnon, Norm        
nmckinnon@sympatico.ca
Biography

BA - History
MA - History
MEd - Adult Education
EdD - Adult Education/Distance Education
     
Interests:

• Online instruction
• Online evaluation
• Selection and use of technology in online instruction
• Instructional design
• Online marketing

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Mugridge, Ian                      
imugridge@shaw.ca
Biography

BA - Modern History
MA - Modern History
Dip - Education
PhD - United States History

Interests:

• Planning and management of distance education/open learning
• Curriculum and course design and development
• Distance education/open learning in international development

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Peruniak, Geoff                  
geoff@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA - Education
MA - Education
PhD - Education

Interests:

• Experiential learning
• Processes of teaching and learning
• Accreditation for learning
• Community education
• Distance education
• Adult education

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Powley, Roger    
rpowley@innovativetraining.ca
Biography

BA - Political Science
HRD - Certificate
MSc - Instructional Systems
PhD - Instructional Systems

Interests:

• Distributed learning systems
• Leadership and management of distributed learning environments
• Instructional design in a wired world
• Online facilitation and collaboration
• Virtual team building
• Virtual project management

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Richards, Griff  
griff@sfu.ca
Biography

BSc - Genetics/Chemistry
BEd - Secondary Biology
MA - Educational Technology
PhD - Educational Technology
Banff School of Advanced Management (#59)

Interests:

• New media and interactive instructional environments
• Collaborative research methodologies
• Management of instructional development systems
• Instructional design and evaluation
• Training trainers

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Rubin, Eugene
generubin@gmail.com
Biography

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Spronk, Barbara    
bspronk5043@rogers.com    
Biography

BA - Anthropology
MA - Anthropology
PhD - Anthropology

Interests:

• Gender issues in distance education
• Globalization and distance education
• Cross-cultural issues in distance education

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Young, Arlene                   
arlene@athabascau.ca
Biography
Recent Publications (AU Space)

BA - History
Dip - Educational Psychology
MEd - Counselling Psychology (Thesis on Assertiveness Training for Woman)
PhD - Educational Psychology (in progress)

Interests:

• Interpersonal communications
• Involuntary job loss
• Feminist analysis

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Welton, Michael            
michaelwelton@shaw.ca
Biography

BA - English and Anthropology
MA - Anthropology
PhD - Education and policy studies (History and
         critical theory)

Interests:

• History of adult education
• Critical social learning theory
• Designing the just learning society
• Adult learning and development
• Workplace as a developmental learning site
• Civil society as pre-eminent learning domain
• Deliberative forms of democracy

 

CDE - Last updated by MM May 07, 2013