Blogging the 2014 AECT International Convention.

I’m new to AECT, and some colleagues recommended that I attend the Breakfast with Champions on Thursday morning. I’m also new to higher ed educational technology. AECT seems to consider itself THE organization for educational technology and instructional design for higher education. My take is that it is much more research-based and less cool-tool-based than ISTE; more like AERA in it’s research and theory focus.

Because my training is in K12 ed tech, online learning, and leadership, I’m not yet familiar with the big names at this convention. So, I’m doing my own little investigation here to get a feel for the conversations that happen via AECT events.

So I’m listing here the names for the Champions Breakfast, and then linking to info about them, and what their main field/area of research seems to be at a quick glance. I welcome comments and corrections!

Top Professionals

• MJ Bishop, AECT Board Member
• Robert Maribe Branch, University of Georgia
  • Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach

  • Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training

• Ward Cates, Lehigh University
  • 1:1 laptop initiatives, instructional developers learning, limitations in information processing, applying instructional design
    principles and appropriate affordances to the World Wide Web
• Clarence Chu, National Taiwan University
• Richard Albert Cornell, University of Central Florida

  • Cybereducation: The Future of Long-Distance Learning

• Marcy P. Driscoll, Florida State University

  • Psychology of Learning for Instruction

• Peg Ertmer, Purdue University

  • Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach

  • The ID CaseBook: Case Studies in Instructional Design

• Michael M Grant, University of Memphis
  • Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning
  • President of the Research & Theory Division of AECT
  • Past Chair of SIG-IT for AERA
• Andrew Gibbons, Brigham Young University

  • An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design

  • Computer-Based Instruction : Design and Development

• MIchael Hannafin, University of Georgia

  • The Design Development and Evaluation of Instructional Software

  • Case-based activity, case-based reasoning
  • Development of frameworks for designing and testing Open-Ended Learning Environments (OELEs) and Resource-Based Learning Environments (RBLEs)
• Steve Harmon, Georgia State University
  • Virtual worlds, SimSpaces, massive multiplayer virtual worlds
• Charles Hodges, Georgia Southern University
  • Self-efficacy, emotion control treatment in online math, peer review, math online, self-regulation of learners
• Ellen Hoffman, University of Hawaii – Manoa
  • Digital divide, digital libraries, feedback loops
• Aytekin Isman, Sakarya University
• Roberto Joseph, Hofstra University
  • Systemic change, videoconferencing, achievement gap, culturally relevant technology based learning environments
• Eugene Kowch, University of Calgary – Faculty of Ed
  • Complex adaptive leadership, networks, adaptable organizations that learn, epistemology for educational technology
• James Klein, Florida State University
  • The Instructional Design Knowledgebase
  • Design and Development Research
    

  • Instructor Competencies: Standards for Face-to-Face, Online and Blended Settings

• In Sook Lee, Sejong University
• Trey Martindale, University of Memphis
  • instructional design, e-learning, online learning
• M. David Merrill, Retired Utah State University

  • Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

  • First Principles of Instruction

  • Teaching Concepts: An Instructional Design Guide
  • Instructional Design Theory
• Leslie Moller, Walden University
  • (past chair for AERA SIG Instructional Technology)
  • The Next Generation of Distance Education
• Kay Persichitte, University of Wyoming

  • Developing Technology-Rich Teacher Education Programs: Key Issues

• Thomas C. Reeves, University of Georgia
  • A Guide to Authentic eLearning
  • Former editor of Journal of Interactive Learning Research
• Lloyd Rieber, University of Georgia
  • Canvas MOOC: Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals
  • LiveCode
• Charles Morgan Reigeluth, Indiana University
  • Instructional Design Theories and Models, Instructional Theory, Situational Principles, Theory Building
• Robert Reiser, Florida State University

  • Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology

  • Instructional Designer Competencies: The Standards

• MaryFriend Shepard, Walden University
  • teacher education, digital collaborative, electronic portfolios
• Sharon Smaldino, Northern Illinois University

  • Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education

• Jonathan M Spector, Department of Learning Technologies

  • Foundations of Educational Technology: Integrative Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Educational Technology)

  • Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology
• Monica Tracey, Wayne State University
  • The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: Theory, Research, and Practice
• David Wiley, Brigham Young University
  • Learning Objects, Open Educational Resources (OER), open textbooks, metadata spaces, open courseware
• Patricia Young, University of Maryland Baltimore Co. 
  • Instructional Design Frameworks and Intercultural Models
  • Cultural Based Model