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The OTEN is proud to welcome M.D.Roblyer as our keynote speaker for the 2006 Inspiration Conference. Dr. Roblyer has taught, researched, and published extensively in the field of educational technology for 30 years. Her textbook Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (Pearson Education/Merrill, 2006) and other textbooks (published by Pearson Education/Merrill) on the Internet and tool software for teachers are widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate instructional technology courses; some of her publications have been translated into Spanish and Chinese. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of technology and research journals, is Past-President of AERA's Special Interest Group Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (SIG-TACTL), and President-elect of AERA's Education and the Internet SIG.
An advocate of using research to guide practice with technology, Dr. Roblyer's current research focuses on identifying factors that contribute to virtual school student success and on exploring ways to increase interactive qualities in virtual courses. In addition to teaching distance courses in various course delivery systems, she has designed distance courses for U. S. and international organizations and has worked with virtual K-12 schools across the U. S. She has researched and developed materials to improve students' performance in virtual school courses, including a success-prediction instrument and an online preparation course for virtual high school students. She has also served as external evaluator for virtual schools projects, including Iowa State University's federally funded project to develop a preservice program to prepare virtual school teachers, and the pilot of the Alabama Access Virtual Schools Project, coordinated by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). |
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