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	Dean Abernathy, Associate Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Dean Abernathy has a joint appointment with the UVA Department of Architecture and the UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, of which he is the Associate Director. In the Department of Architecture, he teaches classes on digital information, visualization, and architectural design, focusing on the use of computational tools in the processes of design and analysis. As Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Mr. Abernathy is developing visualization projects in conjunction with the Virginia Visualization Group and the Department of Architecture. Mr. Abernathy is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the first Frank Israel Traveling Fellowship, the Associated Architecture and Urban Planning Fellowship and the Thesis prize. At UCLA he helped establish the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab, one of the first centers to rigorously explore the use of digital technology in cultural site analysis, visualization, preservation, and information dissemination. Mr. Abernathy was also the site architect 1999-2001 for the excavations of Horace’s Villa outside of Rome. The work centered on the integration of traditional and digital methodologies and included work on database, digital production, and digital photo/drawing integration.
	Bruce Chaloux, Director, Electronic Campus, Southern Regional Education Board Bruce Chaloux directs the 16-state Electronic Campus initiative of the Southern Regional Education Board. The Electronic Campus, the South’s “electronic marketplace” for distance education courses and programs, has grown to include more than 8,000 courses and 350 degree programs from 300 colleges and universities in the region. Dr. Chaloux has led SREB’s efforts to establish a regional learning portal, Ways In Mentor. He also directs SREB’s Distance Learning Policy Laboratory, an effort designed to address policy “barriers” to distance learners. Prior to assuming his duties at the SREB, he served in the Graduate School at Virginia Polytechnic Institute for 13 years, including nine years as Associate Dean and Director of their Northern Virginia Graduate Campus and four years as Associate Dean for Extended Campus Programs in Blacksburg. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Florida State University in 1979 and business degrees from the University of Florida (master’s in 1972) and Castleton State College (baccalaureate in 1970) in Vermont. He has published numerous articles and chapters; contributed to numerous reports on technology, quality assurance and distance learning; and made over 400 presentations on these and related topics.
	Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Technology in Education, Harvard University Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His funded research includes a grant from the National Science Foundation to aid middle school students learning science via shared virtual environments with digitized museum artifacts, a grant from the Joyce Foundation to aid the Milwaukee Public Schools in implementing a knowledge portal for teacher professional development, and a grant from Harvard to explore applications of wireless handheld devices in higher education. Dr. Dede has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment, a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s Expert Panel on Technology, and International Steering Committee member for the Second International Technology in Education Study. He has served on numerous other advisory boards and commissions.
	Dee Fink, Director, Instructional Development Program, University of Oklahoma Dee Fink served as the founding director of the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma from 1979 until May 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1976 and then accepted an academic appointment in the departments of Geography and Education at Oklahoma. Dr. Fink is an independent consultant and a nationally recognized expert on various aspects of college teaching. He has recently published two books on college teaching. He is the author of Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses and co-editor of Team-based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching. Dee Fink is also the immediate past president of the Professional and Organizational Development [POD] Network in Higher Education, the largest professional organization for faculty development in the United States.
	Bernard Frischer, Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Bernard Frischer is Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (www.iath.virginia.edu) at the University of Virginia, where he is also Professor of Art History and Classics. From 1976-2004 he was Professor of Classics and Director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory at UCLA. Dr. Frischer is the author or co-author of seven books and many articles on classics (the area of his doctoral work), archaeology, digital archaeology, and quantitative linguistics. Among his honors and awards are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia, a Mellon Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery in Washington, and two Senior Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is also a Fellow and Resident of the American Academy in Rome and was a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He earned his B.A. in 1971 from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in 1975 from Heidelberg University.
	Joel Hartman, Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida As the university’s CIO, Joel Hartman has overall responsibility for the library, computing, networking, telecommunications, media services, and distributed learning activities. Dr. Hartman was employed by Bradley University from 1967 to 1995, holding several information technology management positions, including CIO. Dr. Hartman has been an active author and presenter at industry conferences. He previously served as treasurer and 2003 chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors and currently serves as chair of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Planning Committee. He also serves on the Florida Digital Divide Council, the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Council, is secretary of the Seminars on Academic Computing Coordinating Board, and vice chair of the Board of Directors of Florida LambdaRail. Dr. Hartman has been an information technology consultant to both public and private sector organizations, and has been active in the development of statewide education and research networks in Illinois and Florida. He has served and held offices on numerous state, regional, and national IT committees in areas including public broadcasting, distributed learning, and networking. Dr. Hartman graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and communications, and received his doctorate from the University of Central Florida.
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