The Center for Teaching & Learning Staff

The Center is one of eight units of the Office for Professional Development. Program areas within the Center include Instructional Informatics, Instructional Technology, Instructional Design and Development, and Programs and Planning. Staff members have a broad range of skills in instructional technologies, multimedia development, distributed education, and instructional design. These services are arranged in collaboration with University Information Technology Services.

To situate this instructional support within the broader teaching and learning context, the Center maintains close working relationships with additional staff from other units. The Office for Professional Development maintains offices next to the Center in UL 1140. There you will find representatives from the Copyright Management Center, CyberLab, and University Libraries, as well as other OPD units. Consultants from these units are available for consultation with IUPUI faculty in the areas of fair use, intellectual property rights, research, and emerging technologies.

Nancy Chism Executive Director E-mail: nchism@iupui.edu Phone: 274-8880	Nancy Van Note Chism is Associate Vice Chancellor for Professional Development and Associate Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. In this role, she provides leadership for central services supporting faculty and academic staff as teachers and scholars. She is also Executive Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning and Associate Professor of Higher Education at Indiana University.

Angela Noah Administrative Specialist E-mail: thecentr@iupui.edu Phone: 274-1300	Angela provides administrative support at the Center. In this role, she schedules appointments and Center resources, greets clients and directs them to appropriate consultants and workstations, and answers calls for general assistance. Angela works closely with the Office for Professional Development administration and other OPD units, providing secretarial and special events support.

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Elizabeth Rubens Project Manager E-mail: erubens@iupui.edu Phone: 274-4590	Elizabeth has a M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology, and she has most recently been involved in the Oncourse Implementation Team, the Continuing Studies Faculty Development Committee, the Learning Technologies Consortium and the Flashlight Assessment Project. Elizabeth will be working with the Instructional Design and Development Unit on planning faculty programs and workshops and consulting with faculty, schools, and departments on instructional support activities.

Terri Combs Instructional Development Specialist E-mail: tcombs@iupui.edu Phone: 278-2241	Terri earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Purdue University as well as an M.A. in School Psychology and a B.A. in Psychology from Ball State University. She is currently involved with the New Faculty Orientation, the faculty mentoring program, Dialogues for First Year Student Success, and consultations with faculty and departments on instructional design projects. In addition to her responsibilities with the Instructional Design and Development Unit, Terri is the Coordinator of the Associate Faculty Office and works on developing professional development events, opportunities, and resources specifically for associate faculty. She also holds the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, where she has taught since 1994.

Peg Weissinger Instructional Development Specialist E-mail: pweissin@iupui.edu Phone: 274-6853	Peg received her B.A from Purdue University and her M.A. from DePauw University, both in the field of education. She is currently working on a doctorate in Higher Education—with a minor is IST—from IUB. In her work in the Center, her emphasis is on pedagogy. She does individual consulting with faculty, working with them to augment their teaching to improve student learning. Her research interests are in critical thinking and adult literacy. Peg is a certified Instructor of Trainers for GSUSA. In addition to conducting workshops, she also travels around the United States, assisting local Girl Scout Councils with Performance Assessments. Peg is the former assistant director of Developmental Studies and continues to teach for University College. She is a long-time member of the Associate Faculty Committee, as she herself has been an adjunct faculty member since 1992.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Rhett McDaniel Project Manager E-mail: rmcdanie@iupui.edu Phone: 278-2435	Rhett received a B.S. in telecommunications from Ball State University and recently received the M.S. in music technology from Indiana University. He brings to The Center a strong background in many types of audio and video production, including distance learning productions. His specialties include video cameras, audio and video tape editors, mixing consoles and video graphics software packages. Rhett coordinates teaching-related instructional technology services with campus schools and departments.

Earl Brune Technical Specialist E-mail: earl@atearl.com Phone: 274-1300	Earl consults with clients on a variety of software and hardware issues, and various multimedia tools. He assists in hardware implementation for the Center and the Office for Professional Development. Earl is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Steve Brunner Media Consultant E-mail: snbrunne@iupui.edu Phone: 278-0522	Steve is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in the New Media program at IUPUI. His responsibilities in the Center include consulting with faculty using Oncourse and addressing usability issues for the web-based educational environment. Currently Steve is a member of the Oncourse Implementation Committee that is exploring issues surrounding the implementation of Oncourse within the I.U. system. Other interests include graphic design, audio recording, 3D imaging, and web page development.


Nicole Johnson Graphic Design Consultant E-mail: nicdjohn@iupui.edu Phone: 278-0246	Nicole received her B.F.A. in graphic design from Indiana State University and completed an internship at the Indianapolis Children's Museum as a graphic designer. She is currently a graduate student in the New Media program with a concentration in web development and graphic design. Nicole's wealth of artistic ability compliment her technical skills in such applications as Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Maya. She has experience with a variety of mediums in fine art and photography that include designing graphics for logos, posters, flyers, brochures, the web, and CD-ROMs.

Kashy Valiyi Media Consultant E-mail: kvaliyi1@iupui.edu Phone: 278-2374	Kashy is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Windows NT4. At The Center he consults with clients on a variety of software and hardware issues, including JavaScript, RealAudio and various multimedia tools. Kashy has developed a technical support system for the Center and the Office for Professional Development.

INSTRUCTIONAL INFORMATICS
Bill Orme Associate Librarian, Instructional Informatician E-mail: orme@iupui.edu Phone: 274-0485	Bill is Instructional Team Leader for University Library. He has served as convenor of the IUPUI Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable (TLTR) and as a consultant to the TLT Group, a national organization concerned with innovative uses of information technologies. In 1992, Bill developed one of IUPUI's first televised courses offered through the Community Learning Network. Bill has worked extensively with University College, and is a member of that unit's founding faculty.

Martha McCormick Assistant Librarian, Instructional Informatician E-mail: mhmccorm@iupui.edu Phone: 274-8588	Martha joined University Library in 1999, as a member of the Instructional and Reference and Research Teams. She has taught several college-level courses and has a particular interest in information literacy instruction issues. She is involved with initiatives to make University Library more accessible to users and to recognize teaching excellence in library and information instruction. Martha works with several Learning Communities and is also University Library's liaison to the School of Nursing.

PROGRAMS AND PLANNING
Susan Kahn Director E-mail: skahn@iupui.edu Phone: 278-3604	Susan is responsible for the Center's programs on organizational development for teaching and learning. She coordinates major events, such as the Chancellor's Convocation and the E. C. Moore Symposium, works on post-tenure review and department chair development, and is involved with other efforts across the campus to improve the environment for teaching and learning. Currently, Susan also directs the Urban Universities Portfolio Project, a national initiative to improve accountability and stakeholder understanding of urban public universities.

CYBERLAB
Ali Jafari Director E-mail: jafari@iupui.edu Phone: 274-4565	Ali founded the CyberLab, formally called the InfoLab and the WebLab, and directed the group and their projects. He is mostly interested in applied research to invent and develop user-friendly information technology tools for better teaching, learning and distributed education. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Technology.

Dave Mills Associate Director E-mail: dtmills@iupui.edu Phone: 274-4616	Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Technology from IUPUI and has worked extensively in the development of Web-based applications with an emphasis on application for teaching and learning. He has served as the lead system engineer on a number of projects including the Web-based teaching and learning environments known as Oncourse and ANGEL (A New Global Environment for Learning) and the live presentation Web-based presentation system known as ClassCast.

For information on other members of the Office for Professional Development, see the OPD website at http://www.iupui.edu/~profdev