Gail
CrawfordAn international board of professors will be responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the courses. The board members will be recruited among international scholars qualified as full professors or associate professors. The board of professors will at least include one member from NKI and two members who are internationally recognized experts from other institutions. The board of professors appoints one full professor or associate professor to be responsible for each course.
Until an official Board of Professors is appointed, an interim board will consist of:
Gail
CrawfordI am one of the "old timers" at Athabasca University, starting with the University
in 1974 - very close to its inception. My roles and activities have included:
Tutor, Coordinator, Instructional Developer, Head of Instructional Development,
Head of Course Development and Head of Nursing Programs.
I am currently an Instructional Psychologist in the Centre for Distance Education
and a core faculty member in the Master of Distance Education (MDE) program
teaching the principles and practices of distance education by using them. Our
graduate students are located in communities across Canada, and, increasingly,
around the world.
I am currently directly involved with two core courses in the MDE program (MDDE 601: An Introduction to Distance Education and Training and MDDE 605: Economics and Planning in Distance Education). I also wrote and sometimes teach an option course (MDDE 650: Tutoring and Student Support in Distance Education and Training).
As an MDE faculty member I am engaged in a number of activities including: writing, research and working with students. I am currently advisor to about 25 students and working both formally and informally with five other students as they begin the process of thesis/project proposal development.
I also consult nationally and internationally in a variety of areas including: learning systems design; distance education; distance education for nurses and instructional materials development. My current research activities include: student support and tutoring, instructional systems design, the use of interactive technologies in course delivery and, formative evaluation.
In 1996 I was on Research and Study leave. During this time, I luxuriated in the opportunity to read, reflect and plan for new projects, courses and activities. In addition, I delivered a workshop in Bangkok, Thailand on the Organization and Management of Distance Education as well as consulted with the Bangladesh Open University, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the development of a B.Sc. program for nurses.
My formal educational credentials include a diploma in nursing from the Vancouver General Hospital, a B.A. (Psychology) from the University of Toronto, an M.A.(Educational Theory) from the University of Toronto (O.I.S.E.) and a Ph. D. (Educational Psychology) from the University of Alberta. While I am no longer a Registered nurse, I continue my interest in that field through working as an Instructional Psychologist and Distance Educator.
Desmond
KeeganDesmond Keegan received his BA (Hons) from University College Dublin in Classical European Civilization. He received his MA from University College Dublin in Medieval European Civilization, studying under the late Professor Dr Ludwig Bieler. He received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Adelaide. His PhD thesis on The Theory and Practice of Distance Education was published by Croom Helm as Foundations of distance education in 1986. The second edition was published by Routledge in 1990 and the third edition followed in 1996. It was translated into Italian as Principi di Istruzione a Distanza (La Nuova Italia, Firenze) in 1994, into Chinese as Yuan Juli Jiao Yu Jichu (Central China TV University, Beijing) and chosen as a set text for the Open University of the United Kingdom's MA in Open and Distance Education in 1997.
In 1979 he inaugurated the international journal Distance Education, now in its 18th year with 36 issues of about 150 pp each. In 1982 he developed the first Master's degree programme in distance education for the University of South Australia and has subsequently developed courses in distance education for the Téléuniversité of Quebec, the University of Cosenza, the University of Armidale at Northern Rivers and the University of Surrey. In 1993 he inaugurated the Routledges Studies in Distance Education Series: with 11 volumes to date of about 300 pp each.
He was a major contributor to The distance teaching universities (1982), joint editor of Distance education: international perspectives (1983), joint editor of L'università a distanza. Riflessioni e proposte per un nuovo modello di università (1984), editor of Theoretical principles of distance education. (1993), joint editor of Distance education: new perspectives (1993), editor of The industrialization of teaching and learning (1994). In 1997 the European Commission in Brussels published his Distance training in the European Union.
He was administrator of the 1992 Euroform project TRIA (Fernuniversität), administrator of the 1993 Euroform project The European Virtual Classroom for Vocational Training (University College Dublin), project leader for the 1995 Leonardo project Voctade (Fernuniversität and University of Rome III), administrator of the 1996 Leonardo project Multimedia WWW Kernel (Ericsson, NKI Norway, University of Rome III) and project leader of the 1997 Leonardo project Courses on the Internet (The Open University of the United Kingdom, Tecminho, Guimaraes, NKI Norway).
He was visiting professor of Distance Education at the Fernuniversität in Germany in 1981 and 1993.
He was made Professor of Distance Education by the Hebei TV University, Shijiazhuang, China in 1996.
Michael
SpectorProfessor at Syracuse University, USA, and Professor of Information Science and Director of the Educational Information Science & Technology Research Program at the University of Bergen.
Previously, Senior Scientist for Instructional Systems Research at the United
States Air Force Armstrong Laboratory in San Antonio, TX.
Morten
Flate PaulsenDoctor of Education, Pennsylvania State University
Master of Science in Engineering, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Director of Development, The NKI Internett College
Morten Flate Paulsen has worked with online education since 1986. He was the founder of The Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS), when he worked with the American Center for the Study of Distance Education at The Pennsylvania State University. He was the founding editor of DEOSNEWS and the first moderator of DEOS-L. Paulsen's dissertation is on "Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-mediated Communication".