Don Hanna is professor of Educational Communications,
University of Wisconsin–Extension, with a concurrent appointment as Professor of
Continuing and Vocational Education at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been
an administrator and teacher at four land-grant universities, and has participated in and
helped to lead major institutional change efforts at three of these universities. Each of
these change efforts involved the development of academic programs offered at a distance
using educational technologies. Don served as Chancellor of the University of
Wisconsin-Extension from 1993-1997 and previously was Associate Vice-Provost for Extended
University Services at Washington State University, where he served from 1983-1993. He
also was Assistant Professor and head of the Division of Extramural Courses at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1979-1983. Don has received a number of
awards for creative programming and leadership, including a Kellogg National Fellowship to
pursue the study of telecommunications policy and applications of telecommunications that
benefit developing countries and a fellowship with Northwestern University’s
Annenberg Communications Policy Program in Washington, D.C. He received his A.B. degree in
anthropology and history from the University of Kansas, and his Ph.D. in Adult and
Continuing Education from Michigan State University in 1978.
Gary Brown
Gary Brown is the Director at The Center For Teaching Learning and Technology (CTLT) at
Washington State University, where he oversees the CTLT’s assessment and technology
efforts. Gary began his work in assessment in composition at San Diego State in 1979 where
he also developed programs that helped to assess hypertext curricula and interactive
analysis. He has since directed, developed and assessed the impact of numerous
software programs, ranging from interactive writing spaces to medical diagnostic
simulations. He joined the team developing Washington State University’s Writing
Portfolio assessment program in 1991. Since that time, he has conducted studies
investigating the impact of new technologies on student learning in food science,
horticulture, engineering, composition, biology, zoology, math, and others. He teaches
graduate courses in Program Evaluation and advanced Program Evaluation for the College of
Education. He received his BA in English in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary
Studies from Washington State University in 1994.
Chris Dede
Chris Dede is a Full Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he
has a joint appointment in the Schools of Information Technology and Engineering and of
Education. His research interests span technology forecasting and assessment, emerging
technologies for learning, and leadership in educational innovation. He currently has a
major grant from the National Science Foundation to develop educational environments based
on virtual reality technology. Chris was the Editor of the 1998 Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Yearbook, Learning with Technology. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and
Psychological Assessment and of the U.S. Department of Education’s Expert Panel on
Technology, and he is also on the International Steering Committee for the Second
International Technology in Education Study spanning approximately thirty countries. Chris
has recently completed a one-year term as Senior Program Director at the National Science
Foundation, helping to guide the initial development of their new $25-30M funding program
— Research on Education, Policy, and Practice. He has been a Visiting Scientist at
the Computer Science Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at NASA’s
Johnson Space Center. Chris received a double-major bachelor’s degree in chemistry
and English in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate in
Education from the University of Massachusetts in 1972.
Donald Olcott
Don Olcott, Jr. is Associate Dean for Extended University and Summer Session at the
University of Arizona. Previously Don was with the Western Cooperative for Educational
Telecommunications where he served as Director of the Institute for the Management of
Distance Education. Don has published extensively in the areas of institutional and
faculty support systems for distance education and has served as a consultant to colleges
and universities across the U.S. and Canada. Don has also received numerous national
awards for leadership in the field of educational telecommunications and distance
education, including the prestigious 1998 Charles Wedemeyer Outstanding Distance Education
Practitioner in North America given by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and The
American Journal of Distance Education in recognition of outstanding leadership and
profession contributions to the field of continuing and distance education. He is a
graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for the Management of Lifelong Learning
(MLE), and serves on the Editorial Staff of The American Journal of Distance Education. He
earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from Western Washington University and his
doctorate in 1994 from Oregon State University in higher educational administration and
leadership.
Janet Poley
Janet Poley is President of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), a
consortium of 50 state and land-grant universities based at the University of Nebraska
— Lincoln, where she also is a full professor. She has served as an advisor for
Educom’s Virtual University Think Tank, the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant College’s Council of Information Technology, and Western
Governors University and Penn State’s Institute for Leadership in Distance Education.
Prior to 1994, Janet served as Director for Communication and Information Technology for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Extension Service where she also served on the
Federal Networking Council of the National Science Foundation and was named by Federal
Computer Week as one of the Outstanding Leaders in Business, Government and Academia. She
has worked in more than 30 different countries focusing on international management,
communication and gender issues. She has received numerous awards, including the Excalibur
Award from the U.S. Congress and the U.S.D.A. International Honor Award for her six years
of work with the Training for Rural Development Project in Tanzania. She holds B.S.
(Broadcast Journalism), M.S. (Nutrition) and Ph.D. (Adult and Continuing Education)
degrees from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Kathy Schmidt
Kathy Schmidt is Assistant Director for Instructional Design and Distance Education
Support at the Center for Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kathy has over fifteen years experience in designing technology-based education in higher
education, K-12, the military, and the private sector. In her position at UT, she works in
all aspects of distance education including design and development, faculty training,
learner support, and evaluation. Kathy has teaching experience in television production,
teaching methodology, and instructional design at the university and community college
level, has published in the areas of instructional design and technology-based
instruction, and has served as a consultant to a variety of educational and private sector
organizations. Kathy received a bachelor’s degree in radio-television-film from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1977, a master’s degree in educational
communications and technology from the University of Hawaii in 1982, and a doctoral degree
in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.
John Tallman
John Tallman is an attorney who recently retired from his position as senior legal counsel
for the University of Wisconsin System, where he served as a legal advisor for 30 years. A
graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, he has worked in numerous areas of law
in higher education, including copyright and intellectual property. His copyright work has
included advising clients on a wide range of intellectual property and copyright issues as
well as presenting workshops on the basics of copyright law, especially as they relate to
a college or university. He continues to consult for the University on a variety of
projects related to copyright and intellectual property matters.
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