Sloan ALN Summer Workshops: Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction

Karen Swan
Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, Department of Educational Theory & Practice
University at Albany
email: swan@cnsvax.albany.edu
URL: http://www.albany.edu/etap/ks.html

Karen Swan is an associate professor of Instructional Technology at the University at Albany Graduate School of Education where she is also Director of the Learning Technologies Laboratory and the Summer Technology Institutes. Dr. Swan's research has been focused mainly in the general area of computers and education. She has published and presented both nationally and internationally in the specific areas of programming and problem solving, computer-assisted instruction, hypermedia design, multimedia, and asynchronous online learning. Her current research focuses on the latter, and on changing notions of literacy for the Information Age. .She has also written on social learning from broadcast television, about which she co-edited a recently published book. Dr. Swan has authored several hypermedia programs including Set On Freedom: The American Civil Rights Experience for Glencoe and The Multimedia Sampler for IBM, as well as three online courses which are being offered through the SUNY Learning Network, which she has taught for the past two years. She is a project director in the Technology and Literate Thinking Strand of the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) and is currently working on formative and usability evaluation for Project Links at RPI. Dr. Swan serves on the program committees for several local and international instructional technology conferences and is the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research.