Program
Faculty
Joni Dunlap
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Joni Dunlap, PhD, CPT is an Assistant
Professor of Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) in the School
of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. Joni
coordinates
the Designing and Implementing Web-based Learning Environments
online certification program.
She
is also an active faculty member in the Educational Leadership and
Innovation (EDLI) doctoral program at UC Denver. In 2001, Joni
launched NOVAtions, an online
professional journal for emerging scholars (specifically, doctoral
students). In 2002, she
received UC Denver's Teacher of the Year Award.
Joni's areas of interest include:
- Situated learning and social constructivist
instructional strategies, and how the use of these strategies enhance
students' development and experience. She recently published an article on workload reduction for online instructors.
- Web resources as performance-support
and knowledge management tools.
- Design and management of online and
hybrid/blended
courses and programs, with special emphasis on learner support
services for online students.
She has published numerous articles and book chapters
(in addition to a book on Hypermedia
Learning Environments) and
delivered close to 100 invited and refereed conference presentations on
these subjects, and has
received awards for her work, including an Award of Excellence for
Outstanding Research
from the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and
a Best Paper Award from WebNet/E-Learn (Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education). She is currently the
President of the Front Range
Chapter of ISPI.
Joni is the co-instructor for IT 5660 -- Developing Educational
Websites, and IT 5670 -- Strategies for Online Learning.
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| Bruce
Muller |
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Bruce Muller is an
instructional designer and project lead at COMET, The Cooperative
Program for Meteorology Education and Training. He oversees the
development of online training material for an international audience
of operational weather forecasters. He also teaches courses on web
design for CU Boulder's Continuing Education program.
Bruce has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and a teaching
certificate, both from CU Boulder. He taught middle school science and
high school technology classes for the Boulder Valley School District
for seven years before earning his masters degree in instructional
design from UC Denver. Bruce then ran his own consulting and
contracting business offering instructional design and web development
services before working for COMET.
Bruce is the instructor for IT 5680 -- Media for Web-based Learning
Environments.
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| Dan Riter |
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Dan Riter is a software engineer at COMET, Cooperative Program for
Meteorology Education and Training. He develops Flash-based learning
templates and modules for the weather service community. He also works as an independent contractor building HTML and Flash websites.
Dan has an undergraduate degree from UC Denver and graduate degree from the Regis University. He has worked as a multimedia developer in the e-learning industry for more than 10 years.
Dan is a co-instructor for IT 5680 -- Media for Web-based Learning
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| Dave Young |
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Dave Young is a senior instructor in the Information and
Learning Technologies (ILT) program at the University of Colorado Denver. He teaches a variety of Web
development and instructional design courses. He also advises and
coordinates the Saturday ILT Masters program for K-12 teachers.
Dave was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2003 by the UC Denver School of
Education and Human Development and is a member of the Steering
Committee for the ISPI-Front Range Chapter.
Professionally, Dave comes from two equally chaotic worlds. A few years ago, he worked for iXL, Inc. as an information architect creating e-commerce solutions for such clients as Matcotools.com and Budget.com. iXL "dot-bombed"
and now no longer exists. Prior to that, he taught junior high
technology and mathematics classes with the Greeley, Colorado public
schools.
Dave is a graduate of the ILT program and is currently trying to ready himself for his first marathon.
Dave is the co-instructor for IT 5660 -- Developing Educational
Websites, and IT 5670 -- Strategies for Online Learning.
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