Flora McMartin is the founder of Broad-based Knowledge, LLC (BbK), a consulting firm focused on assisting educators in higher education in their evaluation of the use and deployment of technology-assisted teaching and learning. BbK specializes in building organizational and project-level evaluation capacities and integrating evaluation into management activities. Current research projects focus on: Innovations in technology, student learning and faculty roles; effective dissemination of innovative teaching practices; development of collaborative faculty work groups; and the institutionalization of educational innovations.
Dr. Joe Tront is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Bradley ECE Department at Virginia Tech. He is an international thought leader in the deployment and use of tablet PCs in learning environments. He has responsibility for developing techniques for the appropriate use and assessment of mobile learning technology across the university. In addition to the faculty and student training he provides at Virginia Tech, Joe has delivered over 50 workshops worldwide where he has introduced people to the new technology and provided them with methods to enhance the way they teach and the way they perform their daily work using mobile devices such as tablet PCs.
Dr. Tront received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from SUNY, Buffalo and has worked in a variety of technical fields, including integrated circuit design, space-based systems, computer and network security, and learning psychology as applied to engineering education. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM and has published numerous papers in professional society journals and conferences. He has received several awards for his leadership in the use of technology in the learning environment, including the Computerworld Laureate medal and the Pete White Chair for Engineering Education Innovation.
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