Digital Media in Teaching and its Added Value

David F. Conway (Hrsg.)

David F. Conway is the Associate Dean in the College of Education at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). He serves on the campus-wide, Distance Learning Advisory Committee. The college offers a fully-online Master's degree program in Behavioral
Disorders, a blended/hybrid School Library program, and several courses in other undergraduate and graduate programs. His background and training is in special education, specifically in education of children who are deaf/hard of hearing. He directed
a distance training program for teachers in a seven state region. He serves as secretary of the Division for Communication Disabilities and Deafness of the International Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Conway's research interests include language and literacy development, and math and science learning.

Stefanie Hillen (Hrsg.)

Since 2009, Dr. Stefanie A. Hillen has been Associate Professor at the Department of Education, University of Agder. She worked as Visiting Professor at Florida State University, US. She has also held a position as Post Doctor at the Department of ICT, Grimstad, where she developed digital learning environments to topics of Integrated Operations. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Education, University of Mainz, Germany. Her research field comprises technology based learning, general didactic, didactic in VET, and comparative education. At the Teacher Training Center, iesbaden, Germany, she fulfilled a full-time two years educational program and received her graduation as teacher for vocational schools with the subject in ICT, economics and business administration.

Melodee Landis (Hrsg.)

Melodee Landis is an Associate Professor Emeritus of the Teacher Education Department of the University of Nebraska Omaha College of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Administration, Curriculum and Instruction from the University
of Nebraska Lincoln. Dr. Landis has previously held positions as a middle school teacher, a distance learning coordinator at the Nebraska Department of Education, and at the University of Minnesota before joining the faculty at UNO. Her publishings
include research on best practices in instructional technology, distance learning, and the development of higher level thinking. Dr. Landis's current focus has shifted to English language instruction and reading remediation in which she uses technology as a major tool.

Mary T. Schlegelmilch (Hrsg.)

Mary Schlegelmilch received her B.Sc. in Education with concentration in Early Childhood from the University of South Dakota in 1989. Mary studied K-12 Curriculum Development at Black Hills State University receiving an endorsement in middle level education. She earned a M.Sc. in Educational Administration from the University Nebraska Lincoln in 2007. Schlegelmilch has worked in K-12 education in both rural and urban schools. She has experience as a classroom instructor, district curriculum facilitator in the area of eLearning, elementary school principal and post-secondary instructor. She joined Cisco in 2011 as Education Advisor to assist K-12 and higher education institutions transform their teaching and learning environments through the use of technology. Schlegelmilch has facilitated webinars on topics pertaining to the use of learning objects, Open Education Resources, collaborative technologies, and the implementation of blended learning programs.

Peter Wolcott (Hrsg.)

Peter Wolcott holds the Mutual of Omaha Chair of Information Science & Technology and chairs the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Business Administration (Management
Information Systems) in 1993. He has long-standing interests in the international dimensions of information technologies, and data management. His current research projects are in the areas of service learning and information technology for development.
His teaching interests are in data management and information technology for development.