Sloan ALN Summer Workshops: Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction

Gary Miller
Assoc Vice President, Dist Ed, Distance Education/World Campus
The Pennsylvania State University
email: gem7@outreach.psu.edu
URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu

Gary E. Miller is Associate Vice President for Distance Education and Executive Director of the World Campus at The Pennsylvania State University. He also serves as Affiliate Associate Professor of Adult Education.

Dr. Miller holds a Doctor of Education degree in Higher Education from Penn State. He is the author of The Meaning of General Education: The Emergence of a Curriculum Paradigm (Teachers College Press, 1988) and has contributed chapters on continuing and distance education for five books published in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. He has presented numerous papers on undergraduate curriculum, continuing education, and distance education at national and international conferences.

Dr. Miller currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Council for Distance Education and the Board of Directors of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. Over the past few years, he has chaired the Commission on Principles of Good Practice in Continuing Education for the National University Continuing Education Association and has served on the Taskforce on Quality Principles in Distance Education for the American Council on Education and on the Taskforce on Distance Learning for the Middlestates Commission on Higher Education.

Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, Dr. Miller served as Executive Director of the International University Consortium and Associate Vice President for Program Development at the University of Maryland University College.