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	A. Frank Mayadas, Ph.D. At the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Dr. Mayadas is involved in a number of areas: online education, globalization of industries, industry studies, and career choice in technical fields. He started the Sloan online learning program in 1993. This program (known as Asynchronous Learning Networks or ALN) has had a profound impact in moving the field forward. Members of the Sloan Consortium now number over 1400. Dr. Mayadas has been a keynote speaker at several distance education conferences and has testified before Congress on web-based learning.
	John R. Bourne, Ph.D. is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and directs the Sloan Center for on OnLine Education at Olin and Babson Colleges. The Sloan Center at Olin and Babson Colleges hosts the Sloan Consortium. He was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he had been on the faculty since 1969. Dr. Bourne has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Begell House Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering since 1979. He founded the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks and remains as editor. He established the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) Web in 1996.
	Anthony Picciano, Ph.D. is a professor in the graduate program in Education Leadership at Hunter College (CUNY). He has thirty years of experience in education administration and teaching, and has been involved in a number of major grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Dr. Picciano has published many articles and has given numerous presentations at national and international professional conferences. He is the author of Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 3rd Edition (2002), a revision of an earlier work, Computers in the Schools: A Guide to Planning and Administration (1994). He is also the author of Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time which looks at the growing field of Web-based distance learning. His articles and papers have been published in journals such as The Teachers College Record, The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, The Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, EDUCOM Review, Computers in the Schools, The Urban Review, Technology and Teacher Education Annual, and Equity and Choice.
	Burks Oakley II, Ph.D. is an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois. Oakley received his B.S. degree from Northwestern University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and for his innovative use of technology in education, including the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from UIUC in 1993, the Outstanding Teacher Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 1993, the Educom Medal in 1996, the Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1996, the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Education Society in 1998, and the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE in 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASEE, and a former Vice President of the ASEE.
	Gary E. Miller is Executive Director Emeritus of the World Campus, The Pennsylvania State University. Until this retirement in July 2007, he served as Associate Vice President for Outreach and Executive Director of Penn State Continuing and Distance Education at The Pennsylvania State University. He was the founding Executive Director of Penn State World Campus, the University’s online distance education program. From 1987 to 1993, Dr. Miller served as Associate Vice President for Program Development and Executive Director of the International University Consortium at the University of Maryland University College. From 1970 to 1981, he held various positions in educational and public broadcasting at Penn State, and from 1981-87 served as Director of Instructional Media at Penn State. In March 2004, he was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. He received the 2004 Weidemeyer Award from the University of Wisconsin and The American Journal of Distance Education for his contributions to distance education. He currently serves on the board of directors of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, and the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). He is the author of The Meaning of General Education: The Emergence of a Curricular Paradigm and numerous journal articles and book chapters on distance education and the undergraduate curriculum.
	Meg Benke has been with Empire State College since 1990, currently as Dean of the Center for Distance Learning, and connected with distance education since 1983. The Center for Distance Learning enrolls 13,000 distance learning enrollments every year. Students can do complete degrees online. Empire State College offers many student services on the web such as the Writer’s Complex (online writing center), student ambassadors, library career site and all services such as admissions, registration, and financial aid. Dr. Benke’s work in education has focused on the connections between work, employers and education. Dr. Benke also teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs in the areas of adult educational policy, human systems, leadership, human resource development, distance education and training and learning organizations. Dr. Benke studies outcomes for students in distance learning and the assessment of prior learning. Since coming to Empire State College, Dr. Benke has written and presented primarily in the areas of learner supports for distance learners and union/employer sponsored distance learning. She has convened a national teleconference on student services for adult students through the American College Personnel Association where she has also served as Vice President for Professional Development. Her recent efforts within the college include the development of co-sponsorship contracts with Alliance (Lucent Technologies, CWA and AT&T), Steelworkers, Ohio AFSCME, the military, and AARP to provide AS/BS degrees at a distance to technical, production, and customer service employees.
	Calvin H. Sydnor, III, D. Min. is the Director of the online Bachelor of Arts Degree Program in Religious Studies at Hampton University and serves as Assistant Professor of Ethics and Religion. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree at Lexington Theological Seminary and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. Dr. Sydnor served as a United States Army Chaplain for twenty-eight years and provided pastoral care in support of soldiers and their families. He was awarded numerous military honors and decorations, including the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Parachutist Badge. He served in numerous locations in the United States, in Germany and was the Command Chaplain for the VII (U.S.) Corps and was assigned to that unit during deployment to Southwest Asia for Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990. During his last military assignment, Dr. Sydnor served as the Command Chaplain for United States Army Training and Doctrine Command where he provided pastoral leadership and technical supervision to the senior chaplains at the seventeen military installations located throughout the United States. He is an experienced trainer of clergy in pastoral leadership, biblical theology, administration and organizational effectiveness. Prior to entering the United States Army, he served as the Dean of the Joint Pastors' Institute at Lane College providing theological education for ministers in the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion and Christian Methodist Episcopal Churches in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas. He is the author of the booklet; "Some thoughts on being an Effective Chaplain" published by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and "Understanding Islam" an individual study project, which is used as a supplemental text for Islam and World Religion classes at Hampton University. He has published many articles in denominational periodicals and conducts marriage, values clarification, and ministers' retreats. Dr. Sydnor serves on the Board of Trustees at Lexington Theological Seminary
	Jacqueline Moloney has been actively involved in curriculum and instructional innovation in higher education for the past fifteen years. In addition to spearheading the development of a comprehensive student learning center and faculty development center, Dr. Moloney led the successful redesign of Lowell's Division of Continuing Studies, Corporate and Distance Education into a high return organization. Under her leadership, the Division developed one of the region's largest online education programs that has received national notoriety and three Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants for program and faculty development. In addition, she has crafted numerous innovative partnerships with business and industry that have yielded impressive results for the Lowell campus. As an active member of the Sloan Consortium of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Dr. Moloney has served as a contributor to the national dialogue on the emergence of online learning programs. In addition to consulting with numerous private and public institutions on faculty and student development, Dr. Moloney assisted in the creation of UMassOnline, a system-wide effort to expand its online programs. Dr. Moloney has authored numerous articles on the development and assessment of online programs, the use of technologies in the classroom; cross-disciplinary approaches to curriculum reform; and the organizational reform of higher education. She has served as a member of numerous professional organizations including the AACU, and the American Association of Higher Education. Dr. Moloney holds an Ed.D. in Leadership from UMass Lowell.
	Bruce N. 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 10,000 credit courses and 500 degree programs from more than 300 colleges and universities in the region. Prior to assuming his duties at the SREB in 1998, he served in the Graduate School at Virginia Tech for 13 years, including four years as Associate Dean for Extended Campus Programs at the institution’s main campus in Blacksburg and earlier for nine years as Associate Dean and Director of Tech’s Northern Virginia Graduate Campus in suburban Washington, DC. He earlier held positions on the staff of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and as an academic affairs administrator and faculty member at Castleton State College (Vermont). He has earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Florida State University in 1979 and has business degrees from the University of Florida (master’s in 1972) and Castleton State College
	Karen Swan is Research Professor in the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University. Prior to coming to Kent, she was at the University of Albany where she developed one of the first online graduate programs in Educational Technology and taught online for many years. Dr. Swan’s research has been focused mainly in the general area of media and learning on which she has published and presented nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on online learning, mobile computing and on student learning in ubiquitous computing environments. Dr. Swan has authored several hypermedia programs, a DVD ROM on ubiquitous computing, and co-edited books on Social Learning from Broadcast Television and Ubiquitous Computing in Education. She served as a project director on several large scale grants including work for the US Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the NYC Board of Education, and is currently the Principle Investigator for an NSF grant focused on teaching data literacy across the middle school curriculum. Dr. Swan is the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research, Editor of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, and serves on the editorial review boards of several education and technology journals and program committees for a number of similar conferences, including the Sloan-C annual ALN and Blended Learning conferences. She was the 2006 recipient of the Sloan-C award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual.
	Dr. Randall S. Upchurch, Director, for the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is instrumental in developing, marketing, and delivering quality distributed learning programs at UCF. In this role he is involved in the review of current and emerging technologies that would enhance the delivery of academic programs and courses. Dr. Upchurch has been with the University of Central Florida since 1998 and has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses using a variety of online course management platforms. Prior to coming to UCF, Dr. Upchurch was involved in the testing and deployment of graduate courses using Lotus Learning Space at the University of Wisconsin – Stout. This Learning Space project was the direct result of a grant from the Sloan Foundation designated to the promotion of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Currently, Dr. Upchurch serves on the Sloan-C advisory board, is a member of the Florida Distance Learning Consortium (FDLC), and is a member of the Strategic ReDesign Alliance.