Dr. Karen Swan (B.A., Philosophy, UConn.; M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, Keene State College; Ed. M., Ed. D., Columbia University, Instructional Technology) is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice and the Director of the Learning Technologies Laboratory. Her research has been primarily in the area of educational computing environments-namely, Logo programming, Integrated Learning Systems and hypermedia-on which she has published widely. She is also interested in social learning from broadcast video and has edited a book on that subject with Dr. Carla Meskill. Dr. Swan has published two interactive video disk applications-The Multimedia Sampler for IBM and Set on Freedom: The American Civil Rights Experience for Glencoe. Dr. Swan is currently a project director for the Technology and Literacy research strand of the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) .
Dr. Swan is a member of AERA, AECT, ISTE, and AACE, and serves on committees and review boards for these bodies. Locally, she is the chair of the Instructional Theory, Design, and Technology specialization’s in her department, chair of the School of Education Technology Committee, and serves on the University Library and Information Sciences Committee and the SUNY-wide Conference on Instructional Technology Planning Committee.
Dr. Swan lives in Vermont with her husband Marco and her two cats, Zack and Lil, where she is the computer teacher, for Matt and Carol’s upper elementary classes, at the Neighborhood School House in Brattleboro. She has three grown children, Sam, Darby and Gilly, whom she loves very much and of whom she is very proud.
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