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Lanny Arvan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bradley Baker, Northeastern Illinois University
Donna Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ken Crews, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Frank Fulkerson, Western Illinois University
Bill Graves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Hardin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary Klass, Illinois State University
Susan Logue, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Burks Oakley II, University of Illinois
Lucinda Roy, Virginia Tech University
Gene Ruoff, University of Illinois at Chicago
Carolyn Synder, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Lynn Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Margaret E. Winters, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale


Lanny Arvan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    As recently as Spring 1994, Lanny Arvan was a low powered computer user, doing word processing, spreadsheets, and e-mail on a Mac LC; but little else. In Spring 1995 he started experimenting with conferencing in his intermediate microeconomics class, using PacerForum. In Summer 1995 he taught this same course using FirstClass with undergraduate TAs providing online office hours - both daytime and evening. This marked the initial use of FirstClass in instruction at UIUC. Since then, he has taught the course several times, integrating a Web component in spring 1996, and Mallard© homework in Summer 1996. Lanny's course development reflects the SCALE ideal - a high degree of both human-to-human interaction through use of the Internet and some degree of self-teaching using interactive software over the Web. In May of 1996 Lanny joined the Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE) as Assistant Director, to study the "Economics of ALN," to foster communication between SCALE-supported faculty and SCALE Administration, and in general to promote ALN. In October, Lanny was promoted to Associate Director of SCALE in charge of SCALE operations. He has made numerous presentations about ALN--talking about pedagogy, how SCALE aids faculty in ALN course development, or about economics of ALN issues.

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Bradley Baker, Northeastern Illinois University

    Brad Baker has served for the past nine years as University Librarian/Director of University Media Services at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. In addition to his duties at NEIU, he has been involved for the past ten years in the leadership of a number of statewide consortia and initiatives related to library automation and resource sharing. Baker is now serving his second year as President of the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO) which manages both ILLINET Online (the statewide online catalog ) and IBIS (a bibliographic database search service). Baker also served for two years as a member of Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan's Advisory Council on Public Records and Privacy. His service was recognized by the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, which named him Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year in 1995.

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Donna Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Donna J. Brown is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. During 1995-96 she served as Assistant Dean and Director of Women in Engineering. Dr. Brown has also held positions at University of Colorado at Boulder and Ecole Normale Superieure des Telecommunications (Telecom Paris) in Paris. She received her B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley College, SM in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and PhD in Computer Science also from MIT. Brown's research interests include VLSI layout and parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures. She is co-developer of Mallard, an asynchronous learning environment on the World Wide Web. Mallard has been used by thousands of students and in courses ranging from engineering to economics to foreign language.

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Ken Crews, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

    Kenneth Crews is Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis and in the IU School of Library and Information Science. He is also Director of the Copyright Management Center at IUPUI. Professor Crews brings a variety of academic and professional experiences to his diverse duties at the University. Crews earned his undergraduate degree in history from Northwestern University and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He moved to Los Angeles to begin the practice of general business and corporate law, primarily for the entertainment industry. His legal career extended from 1980 to 1990. During those years, Crews returned to graduate school and earned his MLS and PhD from UCLA.

    In 1990 Kenneth Crews began his academic career as Associate Professor of Business Law at San Jose State University. Professor Crew's principal research interest has been the relationship of copyright law to the needs of higher education. His dissertation analyzed copyright policies from universities throughout the US. That work received the annual dissertation award from the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The work also became the foundation of Professor Crews most recent book, Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1993. His publications have appeared in a wide range of law and library journals, and Professor Crews is a frequent speaker at conferences where copyright and fair use are critical issues.

    Professor Crews is a regular participant in the Conference on Fair Use, sponsored by the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. That conference meets regularly in Washington, DC, to negotiate with diverse stakeholders on the subject of fair use in higher education and libraries. He has been a consultant to colleges, universities, and libraries on copyright issues.

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Frank Fulkerson, Western Illinois University

    Frank Fulkerson is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts& Sciences. He is also a Professor of Psychology. This year I have been in charge of the purchase and installation of multimedia equipment for 8 permanent classrooms and 6 carts for the College. He has been at WIU since 1968.

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Bill Graves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Bill Graves earned a PhD in mathematics from Indiana University in 1966. He is Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is currently serving as interim Chief Information Officer in a new position that consolidates all of the University's central Information Technology Services.

    He also founded and is responsible for the University's Institute for Academic Technology, a national educational technology center supported since 1989 by IBM. He has served the University in a variety of capacities, including a five-year term as Associate Provost for Information Technology, an interim term as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and two terms as Associate Dean for General Education. Graves is an elected member of the Board of Directors of CAUSE. He chairs the steering committee for EDUCOM's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative and also serves on steering committees for the ARL / CAUSE / EDUCOM Coalition for Networked Information, the EDUCOM Networking and Telecommunications Task Force, and the recently announced Internet2 Project. He chairs the Internet2 Applications Working Group. Professor Graves has given hundreds of invited presentations on the role of information technology in education and has written extensively on the subject.

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Paul Hardin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Paul Hardin is the Head of the Educational Technologies Assistance Group (ETAG), a computing and multimedia service unit on the UIUC campus, as well as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Human Resource Education (formerly Vocational and Technical Education), where he teaches instructional design. Paul has been involved in courseware design & development since 1978, and obtained a Ph.D. in Ed Psych in 1989 with a focus on computing in business and the social sciences. He is also involved with several campus technology committees, most notably the Educational Technologies Board.

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Gary Klass, Illinois State University

Susan Logue, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

    Susan Logue is the Assistant Instructional Support Services Librarian in Library Affairs at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She supervises the Digital Imaging unit in Instructional Support Services and is responsible for maintenance of the library's web site. Susan works with faculty at SIUC and the regional community colleges to develop instructional applications to support campus-based and distance learning courses.

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William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Burks Oakley II, University of Illinois

    Burks Oakley II is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois. Dr. Oakley's interests include distance education, outreach, and instructional technologies and he has major responsibilities for UI-OnLine. Oakley is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Associate Director of the Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments. From 1992 until 1995, he served as Assistant Head of the ECE Department.

    Oakley received his BS degree from Northwestern University and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan. In 1991, he was named as "one of the most distinguished Ph.D. recipients over the past 50 years" by the University of Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and for his innovative use of technology in education, including the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from UIUC in 1993, the Outstanding Professor Award from the ASEE IL/IN Division in 1993, the EDUCOM Medal in 1996, and the IEEE

    Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 1996. Oakley is the chair of the ECE Division of ASEE and a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board.

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Lucinda Roy, Virginia Tech University

    Professor Lucinda Roy is Gloria D. Smith Professor of Black Studies at Virginia Tech and a professor of English. She most recently served as Associate Dean for Curriculum, Outreach and Diversity for the College of Arts and Sciences from 19931996. During Spring 1992, she was the visiting Margaret Bundy Scott Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.

    A recipient of many teaching awards, Roy has taught in West Africa, England and the US, and frequently gives presentations and conducts workshops on the changing role of faculty in higher education, as well as on the use of instructional technology, diversity issues, and creative writing. She received the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize for her second collection of poems. Her first novel, Lady Moses, will be published by Harper Collins in Winter '97, and her second novel is under contract. She is also co-authoring a critique of higher education.

    Professor Roy received her BA (hons) and P.G.C.E. (Post-graduate certificate in Education) from King's College, London; and her MFA from the University of Arkansas. As associate dean, she coordinated Tech's Cyberschool, handled curriculum development in a college of thirty departments and programs, and launched outreach and diversity initiatives. She is frequently invited to give keynote addresses at other institutions in the process of recasting their curriculum, and has appeared in a number of satellite conferences on instructional technology.

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Gene Ruoff, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Gene Ruoff is a Professor of English at the UIC, where he has taught since 1966. He recently stepped down from the positions of Director of the UIC Institute for the Humanities (10 years) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (3 years) to become Special Assistant to the Chancellor for the Information and Management Systems.

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Carolyn Synder, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

    Carolyn Snyder has served as Dean of Library Affairs at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale since 1991. Her responsibilities include library and information services, instructional support services, distance learning, the US Grant Association editorial project, and the Regional Center for Distance Learning and Multimedia Development. She has given numerous presentations about libraries and technology and is the editor with James Fox of a new book, Libraries and Other Academic Support Services for Distance Learning.

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Lynn Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Like many computer specialists, Lynn Ward entered the profession through the back door. She holds a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Westminster Choir College and a masters in Musicology from the University of Illinois. As a graduate student in musicology she developed an interest in personal computers, and in 1988 became Manager of Computer Support Services for the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service. Four years later, she joined UIUC's Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO) as principal author and editor of the award winning publication "UIUCnet", a newsletter about networking and the Internet.

    At CCSO, Lynn was involved in a variety of activities, including writing and editing CCSO publications, serving as Webmaster for CCSO, teaching classes, and offering consulting and training services to campus network administrators. Heron-line publication, "The Network Administrator's Survival Handbook" recently earned NetGuide's "Gold Site" award and was featured in MacWorld magazine. Currently, Lynn is Assistant Director of the Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE).

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Margaret E. Winters, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

    Margaret E. Winters has been an Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale since 1994. Her duties include, among other matters, academic personnel (hiring, tenure and promotion policies, grievances), Continuing Education and the Military Base degree programs, and various special assignments. With a doctorate in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania, she holds the rank of Professor of Foreign Languages and of Linguistics; she chaired the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures from 1987-1993. She tries hard to maintain her research in historical linguistics.


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