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Dr. Yvonne Andres — Dr. Andres has designed and taught many courses, including “Hello Internet,” “Managing Global Learning Projects,” “Designing On-line Courses,” and “Creating Effective Educational Websites.” Ms. Andres’ activities include promoting and facilitating exciting and innovative Internet learning projects, including International CyberFair. Dr. Andres has been champion of instructional telecommunications since 1984, as an electronic bulletin board sysop and project director for various networks including the AT&T Learning Network, CORE Network, CERFnet and the FrEdMail Network. She has provided leadership and training in educational telecommunications at conferences and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, South America and Africa. She also designed a pilot interactive Internet video project with ABC World News Now.
Al Rogers— Al is one of the earliest pioneers in the use of computers in teaching. His first classroom computer video monitor was a bare CRT housed in a cardboard box with a window cut in one side. By 1978, after acquiring five of the earliest Commodore PET’s Al and a colleague were teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grade students within a school-based computer “mini-magnet.” By 1981 he had established a district-wide computer magnet program in a lab of 21 networked Apple IIe’s. Al’s work was also influential among educators beginning to use the Internet in its early days. His “Harnessing the Power of the Web” CD-ROM was distributed as part of the Thinkquest Competition to over 500,000 teachers around the world.
Francis Dwyer, D.Ed.— Dr. Dwyer, professor of instructional systems, received his doctorate in educational administration from Penn State. His current interests are corporate training, performance technology, and visual learning. Dr. Dwyer has served as president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). He has conducted more than 300 research studies on visual learning, which have resulted in the publication of four texts directly related to the design and use of visualization in the instructional/training process.
