Dr. Caroline Crawford
Associate Professor
University of Houston-Clear Lake
School of Education,
Instructional Technology Program
Student Services Building SSB - 3.203.01
Box 50
2700 Bay Area Blvd
Houston, TX 77058
281-283-3587 crawford@uhcl.edu
Dr. Richard Smith
Clinical Associate Professor and Coordinator,
Instructional Technology Program
University of Houston-Clear Lake
School of Education,
Instructional Technology Program
Student Services Building SSB - 3.203.11
Box 304
2700 Bay Area Blvd
Houston, TX 77058
281-283-3566 smithrich@uhcl.edu
Caroline Crawford, Ed. D. - Associate Professorof Instructional Technology Dr. Crawford has designed, developed and taught several courses during her tenure at UHCL, including the following: Trends and Issues, Advanced Applications of Technology; Multimedia design; Multimedia Development; Analyzing Emerging Technologies; and. Creating Digital Resources. Further, she is in the process of designing and developing the following courses: Learning Theory and Instruction; and, Systematic Design of Technology-Based Instruction. Dr. Crawford has designed, developed and implemented no fewer than twelve online and hybrid courses over the past eight year period, with strong formative and summative feedback from the learners within the courses and subject matter experts in the field. Dr. Crawford's scholarly pursuits are varied, including a minimum of 40 international, national, and regional refereed and non-refereed journal articles. Further, Dr. Crawford has presented over 150 professional conference-focused presentations and thirteen poster sessions, with a keynote presentation at a regional technology-focused conference. She also has a history of honored positions as a Managing Editor for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) refereed review of conference manuscript proposals, Review Editor for six international refereed journals, and reviewer for innumerable regional, national and international refereed journals. At this point in Dr. Crawford's professional career, her main areas of interest focus upon communities of learning and the appropriate and successful integration of technologies into the learning environment.
Richard Smith earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from New York University and has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Antioch University earned through his participation as a teacher-intern with the Urban Teacher Corps in Washington D. C. He has worked as a curriculum specialist, for public health, with the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in rural Arkansas & Mississippi. After earning his doctorate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, he became a program coordinator with the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University specializing in Title IX issues in K-12 schools. As director of instructional technology for the Houston Independent School District, he introduced the district's first on-line education programs designed for teacher training. He also designed and implemented HISD's and Texas' first hands-on middle school computer literacy course. In addition, Dr. Smith created and managed HISD's Advanced Technology Training Institutes. Dr. Smith also served as the manager of HISD's Instructional Design Group. At UHCL, he has taught on-line and face-to-face courses since 2001. In addition, he created three on-line master's degree level courses and consulted on the writing of several others. He has made numerous presentations at professional organizations focusing on distance education and authored several articles on the subject. Also, Dr. Smith is the co-creator and co-moderator of the UHCL podcast series, "Education and Technology Today" and has participated in a number of podcasts regarding various aspects of distance education. Dr. Smith is the former Vice President of the Gulf Coast Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers having served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India in the area of public health.
Dr. Kathryn Ley
Associate Professor
University of Houston-Clear Lake
School of Education, Instructional Technology Program
Student Services Building SSB - 3.203.02
Box 217
2700 Bay Area Blvd
Houston, TX 77058
281-283-3585 ley@uhcl.edu
Dr. Jana Willis
Associate Professor
University of Houston-Clear Lake
School of Education, Instructional Technology Program
Bayou Bldg Room 1321.2
Box 357
2700 Bay Area Blvd
Houston, TX 77058
281-283-3568 willis@uhcl.edu
Kathryn Ley, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at University of Houston - Clear Lake teaches graduate courses in instructional design, learning theory, instructional motivation, project management and grant writing, and performance technology. She has authored over 25 journal publications and presented at national and international educational and distance learning conferences for more than two decades. She currently investigates self-regulation, extraneous cognitive load, and their effects on online faculty and learners and conducts faculty workshops on online course communications. She earned a PhD in Instructional Systems from Florida State University, an M.S. Environmental Management-Human Resources from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and an M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jana M Willis, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
Dr. Willis is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Teacher Education at UHCL. She teaches face-to-face, web-enhanced, and online courses in Instructional Technology, Teacher Education and Assistive/Adaptive Technologies. Dr. Willis worked with a UHCL project team developing both a course delivery tool and an e-folio subsystem. In addition to teaching for UHCL Dr. Willis also works with a local community college system and NASA on grants that fund technology training for classroom teachers. Dr. Willis has published several articles and presented at numerous conferences throughout the United States and Canada. Current research interests include technology integration, foundational curriculum, professional development, e-folio, ethics, online course delivery of technology training, and WebQuests within the learner-centered classroom.
