The People of NCITE
Dr. Melodee Landis
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Education,Teacher Education
mlandis@mail.unomaha.edu
http://www.unomaha.edu/webland
(402) 554-3624 (phone)
(402) 554-2125 (fax)
Previous Experience in Using IT in Education:
- K-12 teacher
- Director of Education Technology Center at Nebraska Department of Education (helped pioneer Internet in the schools)
- Lecturer at University of Minnesota (Instructional Tech and Distance Education instructor and DE assistant to Dean of Education
- Assistant Dean of UNO College of Continuing Studies (in charge of distance learning projects)
- Faculty member of UNO Teacher Education Department (Teach Instructional Tech classes, conduct distance education projects, publish on distance and instructional technology in education)
General Research Areas:
- Instructional Technology
- Critical Thinking
- Distance Education
NCITE-Specific interests:
- I hope that NCITE will be interested in sponsoring an Instructional Technology and Critical Thinking seminar. I am also intrigued by I-MINDS and would like to know more about it, see it in action.
Strengths/potential contribution to the community:
- I am in the process of writing a grant to NSF to:
- conduct a grounded theory study of critical thinking,
- co-sponsor (with NCITE and/or the Nebraska Association of Gifted Education) a seminar on Instructional Technology and Critical Thinking,
- Identify or develop more reliable tools for assessing critical thinking,
- Conducting research that compares critical thinking in online discussions to that in traditional classrooms,
- Explore potential for intelligent agents to conduct assessments of critical thinking in discussions
- I am writing a proposal for a text that integrates technology into instructional design.
- I have developed an online, interactive tutorial in collaboration with the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission – Nebraska Education Technology Consortium for Higher Education (NETCHE). It assists instructors in designing instruction integrating technology into each step: Instructional Design for Integrating Technology http://netche.unl.edu/ (click “Instructional Design for Integrating Technology” in left hand frame).
