KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Day 2 - Thursday

Building Community in Online Learning

Dr. Rosemary M. Lehman

Rosemary M. Lehman, Ph.D.
Author, Online Instructor, and Distance Learning Consultant
Partner in eInterface (www.einterface.me) 

Dr. Rosemary Lehman is an author, online instructor, distance learning consultant, and partner in eInferface. She has 20 years experience working with University of Wisconsin-Extension (UWEX) in instructional design and managing the Instructional Communications Systems (ICS) Learning Design Team. In her work at ICS, she taught online courses and programs, conducted audioconferencing, webconferencing, videoconferencing, and webcasting sessions on program design, development, and implementation; created and published professional development materials; and coordinated numerous distance education seminars and conferences.

Dr. Lehman holds a BA in English from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI; an MA in Television/Media Critique and a Ph.D. in Distance Education/Adult Learning from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include the creation of presence in online learning, the relationship of emotion and cognition to distance education and instructional design and the educational applications for media and technology; the development, integration, and evaluation of learning objects; and universal technology accessibility.

 She is the author of The Essential Videoconferencing Guide: 7 Keys to Success (2001, ICS/UWEX), editor of Using Distance Education Technology: Effective Practices (2002, ICS/UWEX), and co-author of 147 Practical Tips for Synchronous and Blended Technology Teaching and Learning (2007, Atwood Publishing), as well as the author of several articles, book chapters, and a post-doctoral monograph on the role of emotion in distance learning in the Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning (JCAL) in 2006. Most recently she co-authored Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Learning: How to "Be There" for Distance Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2010) and Managing Online Instructor Workload: Strategies for Finding Balance and Success (Jossey-Bass, 2011). She has presented and keynoted at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Lehman's academic and technology awards include: the 2009-2010 University of Wisconsin-Extension Teaching Scholar Award; the 2005 UWEX Award for Excellence in leadership and distance education; the 2001 Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Carman Award for creativity and innovation in the use of technology in education; and the 2001 Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) Award for contributing to research in the field of education and technology.

Day 4 - Saturday

Enacting Positive Change on Campus

Dr. Wendy C. Newstetter

Wendy C. Newstetter, Ph.D.
Director of Learning Sciences Research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech

Dr. Newstetter's research focuses on understanding learning in interdisciplines with an eye towards designing educational environments that support the development of integrative problem solving. Her ethnographic investigations of three interdisciplinary research laboratories have informed the design of problem-driven learning (PDL) classrooms at Georgia Tech designed to foster integrative model-based reasoning. With support from the Spencer Foundation, she has investigated the experiences of under-represented minorities (URMs) in university research settings to better understand how gender and race are enacted at the bench top. She works with faculty at Georgia Tech and throughout the nation through Project Kaleidoscope to create and then develop more effective science, math and engineering educational environments informed by learning and cognitive science research. Her most recent research focuses on integrated systems biology and how to prepare students to enter this field.  Dr. Newstetter has published in numerous journals and conference proceedings, including the Journal of Engineering Education, Research in Engineering Design and the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.