About the Authors Michael Corry Michael Corry, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of the Educational Technology Leadership program at The George Washington University. Dr. Corry is intimately involved with course design and delivery as well as management of this pioneering program delivered via distance education at GWU. Dr. Corry's research interests include distance learning theory, practice, and policy, faculty development using technology, e-Learning, the integration of technology into K-12 and higher education settings, instructional design, and human-computer interaction. He has been a principal investigator on two U.S. Department of Education grants involving "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology." He has numerous publications and presentations involving his research interests including two books — E-Learning Companion: A Student's Guide to Online Success, 1st and 2nd editions published by Houghton Mifflin and Distance Education: What Works Well published by Haworth Press. He has also designed and delivered workshops involving technology and e-Learning. Dr. Corry holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Instructional Systems Technology. Before coming to GWU he taught at Indiana University, at a high school in Utah, and was an Information Systems Consultant for Andersen Consulting/Accenture. Contact him at mcorry@gwu.edu.
Lance Dublin Lance Dublin is an independent management consultant, international speaker, and author based in San Francisco, California and serving clients world-wide. He specializes in strategy development, program design, and implementation for corporate learning programs and organizational change management. Lance is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at regional, national and international conferences. In addition, he is the author of numerous published articles, co-author of the capstone book in ASTD’s e-Learning series, Implementing e-Learning, and a contributor to ASTD’s Handbook of Training Design and Delivery, Elliot Masie’s Learning Rants, Raves and Reflections, and Marc Rosenberg’s Beyond e-Learning. For more information, see http://www. dublinconsulting.net.
Frank Hanfland Frank Hanfland is a senior instructional design and e-Learning consultant and has spent the past ten years on the forefront of multimedia and e-Learning development. His experience reaches back to application programming in BASIC, developing in Authorware 3 and Flash since version 3, and many other platforms to provide integrated solutions to a wide variety of industries, ranging from telecom, banking, and insurance, to hazardous waste companies. In addition to his technical expertise, Frank has a solid background in instructional design and is an advocate of using the most modern methodologies to solve an organization's human performance improvement and support requirements. Contact Frank by e-mail to frank@hanfland.us.
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