Karen Swan

Karen Swan is an associate professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Learning Technologies Laboratory and the Summer Technology Institute in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, where she has been a member since 1988.

 

Dr. Swan’s research has been focused mainly in the general area of computers and education. She has published and presented both nationally and internationally in the specific areas of programming and problem solving, computer-assisted instruction, hypermedia design, technology and literacy, and asynchronous online learning. Her current research focuses on the latter, and on professional development for technology integration. .She has also written on social learning from broadcast television and co-edited a book on the topic with Dr. Carla Meskill. Dr. Swan has authored several hypermedia programs including Set On Freedom: The American Civil Rights Experience for Glencoe and The Multimedia Sampler for IBM, as well as three online courses which are being offered through the SUNY Learning Network.

 

Dr. Swan is a project director in the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA), working on a study of the use of technology in middle school English Language Arts classrooms, and for Project View, a program linking K-12 classrooms with museums and museum educators via interactive video. She is also involved in research on the Capitol Area Technology and Inquiry (CATIE) project, a professional development program centered on school-based technology mentors. Dr. Swan serves on the program committees for several local and international instructional technology conferences, the ALN Effectiveness Research Advisory Board, and is the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research.

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