ETAP Faculty
Peter SheaAssociate Professor OFFICE
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Dr. Shea joined the department of Educational Theory
and Practice in Fall 2004 with a joint appointment
with the Department of Informatics in the College
of Computing and Information. His research focuses
on technology-mediated teaching and learning in
higher education. He is the author of numerous articles
and several book chapters on the topic of online
learning and co-author of "The Successful Distance
Learning Student". He is a co-recipient of
several national awards including the EDUCAUSE Award
for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning for
the State University of New York, and Sloan Consortium
Awards for Excellence in Faculty Development and
Asynchronous Learning Networks Programs.
Dr. Shea has also been the recipient of significant
external funding for his recent work. This includes
three grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
to research faculty and student experiences in complete
online learning environments and support for the
development of hybrid learning environments at the
University at Albany. He is now principal investigator
on a US Department of Education grant to research
and develop an online system to support the teaching
of Chinese to children in K-12 public schools.
Previously Dr. Shea was the Director of the SUNY
Learning Network, the online education system for
the 64 colleges of the State University of New York.
Dr. Shea has also served as manager of the SUNY
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program and Project
Director for SUNY's participation in the Multimedia
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
(MERLOT), an international collaboration for peer
review of discipline specific online learning resources.
He is also a member of the USNY Technology Policy
Council.
