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Susan Millar Susan Millar, Lead Fellow
Susan Millar serves as a senior scientist at UW-Madison, where she directs the Learning through Evaluation, Assessment and Dissemination (LEAD) Center. The LEAD Center, an organization of some 12 professionals, supports faculty (primarily in the science and engineering fields) engaged in educational reform activities by providing evaluation research. Most of her LEAD Center projects take a systemic approach, entailing diverse factors that affect student learning processes and outcomes, the organizational and cultural factors that influence faculty reform efforts. Her work at the LEAD Center led her to consider how the emerging information technologies can best be used to help SMET faculty education reformers achieve their goals for student learning. This, in turn, led her to accept the role of "Lead Fellow" for the 1999-2000 Institute on Learning Technology, a project of the NISE's College Level One team. Susan currently serves on several national boards, including the Advisory Committee of the Education and Human Resources Directorate of the NSF.

Susan was trained as a cultural anthropologist at Cornell University. In previous positions, she taught with the UW-Madison Women's Studies Program, managed large-scale databases and conducted analysis for the University of Wisconsin System Administration, co-directed the Pew-funded National Study of Master's Degrees, and conducted research as a member of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University.
email: smillar@engr.wisc.edu


Jean-Pierre Bayard Jean-Pierre Bayard
Dr. Jean-Pierre R. Bayard joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) in 1990. His research interests are in the numerical modeling and experimental applications of microwave printed antenna elements and arrays, design of microwave systems for the automation of passenger and maintenance vehicles (funded by Caltrans). Dr. Bayard also has interest in the use of technology in the teaching and learning of engineering. Over the past six years, he has developed multimedia notes and interactive leaning and assessment modules for several electrical engineering courses. Jean-Pierre believes that technology-mediated instruction, whether it is in the form of television or the worldwide web, is a valuable partner of the traditional classroom teaching, all working toward an enriched learning environment. His leadership in this area earned him the Outstanding Teaching Award for the CSUS College of Engineering and Computer Science for the 1997-1998 academic year. In his capacity as a fellow of the NSF-funded National Institute for Science Education (NISE), he is investigating the use of computer-based technology in the teaching of sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology.
email: bayardj@csus.edu


Steve Ehrmann Steve Ehrmann
Steve Ehrmann is one of the founders of the TLT Group (Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group), serving as Vice President and Director of the Flashlight Program. For almost twenty-five years, he has been helping educators improve teaching and learning. For example, since 1993, he has directed the Flashlight Program, which helps educators evaluate and improve their own uses of technology, on- and off-campus. Flashlight may be best known for its award-winning tools for developing evaluative studies.

Steve Ehrmann is also well-known in the field of distance education, dating back to his years of funding innovative research and materials in this field when he served as a program officer with the Annenberg/CPB Project.

Dr. Ehrmann has spoken all over the world on hundreds of campuses and at dozens of conferences on the uses and abuses of technology for improving education. He has written or helped to write four books and over thirty articles in this field, on subjects as varied as the economics of courseware and the role of designing in the curriculum. Many of his articles can be found in the Resources section of the TLT Group's Web site, under "Flashlight" and "Visions."

His Ph.D. is in management and higher education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he also received bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and in urban planning.
email: ehrmann@tltgroup.org


John Jungck John Jungck
John R. Jungck is the Mead Chair of the Sciences and Professor of Biology at Beloit College. He has specialized in mathematical molecular evolution, history and philosophy of biology, and science education reform. In 1986, he co-founded the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, a national consortium of over a hundred college biology educators and computer software developers who are producing biological curricular materials and promoting curricular reform across the nation with thousands of professors. He has held many editorial positions: Editor, The BioQUEST Library; Editor, Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching; Editor, American Biology Teacher; Associate Editor, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology; Book and Software Editor, BioScience; Associate Editor, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and College Science Teaching; and, Editorial Board, BioSystems: Journal of Molecular, Cellular and Behavioral Origins and Evolution. He is Chair of the Education Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology, serves on the Education Committees of both the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology and the American Institute for Biological Sciences, is on the Executive Board of the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences, and is a committee member of the National Research Council's Committee on Information Technology. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Thailand), a Mina Shaughnessy Scholar, a Fellow of the National Institute of Science Education, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
email: jungck@beloit.edu


Flora McMartin Flora McMartin
Flora McMartin serves as the Evaluation Director for the National Engineering Delivery System (NEEDS), a digital library for engineering education. NEEDS is dedicated to developing and supporting a digital learning space for faculty, students, and other learners interested in engineering education. Initiated in 1990 as a project of the Synthesis Coalition, it has cataloged over 900 sets of learning resources and materials. Her work with NEEDS centers around devising a multiple method system for evaluating the use of the site and its impact on engineering curricula, student learning, and teaching. This work led to her interest in the 1999 - 2000 Institute on Learning Technology, a project of the NISE's College Level One team and its goal of learning more about how faculty successfully implement computer learning technologies in SMET education. Flora earned her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. Her work includes directing the assessment program for the Synthesis Coalition and coordinating the faculty development and assessment activities for the General Electric Faculty Fellows Program at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously she was the Assessment Coordinator for the University of San Francisco. Her research interests center around innovative educational practices in higher education.
email: mcmartin@needs.org


Marco Molinaro Marco Molinaro
Marco Molinaro is the director of multimedia development for the Lawrence Hall of Science and former multimedia director of the Modular Chemistry Systemic Reform Project at UC-Berkeley. He has a doctorate in biophysical chemistry from UC-Berkeley, 1994. He has directed the creation of 10 educational CD-ROMs, three major websites, and countless stand-alone applications for teachers and learners of science in grades 3 through 14. His technology products are distributed via educational groups and publishers worldwide. Since 1996 he has been invited to present over 19 times at national meetings, 11 times internationally, and has also given 7 national workshops related to instructional technology use. His focus through the years has been on practical uses of computer-based technology to enhance the teaching and learning of science at all ages. In his spare time he loves great food, good friends, photography, and adventure travel.
email: molinaro@scienceview.berkeley.edu




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