Dr. Ann Thompson is an University Professor and the Founding Director
/Senior Advisor for the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching in the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University. She began her career as a high school mathematics teacher at Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California.

She earned her BA in mathematics from Pomona College, her MAT in mathematics education from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Thompson joined the former College of Education at Iowa State University in 1981 and since that time, she has focused her work on technology applications in learning and teaching. Developing, testing, and disseminating models for using students to work one-on-one with faculty and teachers to help in the development of technology expertise, has been a major interest.

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Dr. Hargrave currently teaches the integration of technology in teaching and learning course for undergraduate students earning a minor in educational computing and the foundations of instructional technology course for the graduate program.

Her research examines use of conceptual change-based instructional strategies to develop student learning in science and instructional technology. The former manager of the Ames Laboratory Education Programs, she has worked in classrooms conducting hands-on and technology-based science projects with K-12 students.

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Dr. Leigh is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and teaches courses in instructional technology, educational foundations, and multicultural education. She is currently teaching social foundations of American education in the undergraduate teacher education program. In addition, she is teaching a course concerning the history of educational opportunities for African Americans and another that focuses on curriculum theory, both are graduate courses in the Curriculum & Instruction and Curriculum & Instructional Technology graduate programs.

Dr. Leigh's research scholarship focuses on the equality of educational opportunities, including access and use of technologies, historically afforded under served children and looks at the impact that economic discrimination and residential segregation has had upon their public schooling.

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Dr. Niederhauser currently teaches the undergraduate technology course for the teacher preparation program and Graduate classes that emphasize learning theory and instructional design. He taught in a Head Start program for five years, supervised student teachers in grades K-6 and taught an introduction to education class for secondary preservice teachers.

His research interests focus on the development of teachers' personal theories about teaching and learning, and how those theories influence their use of technology.

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Dr. Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. In addition to teaching instructional technology and reading methodology courses, she coordinates the undergraduate educational computer minor program offered by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Human Sciences.

She conducts research about the use and integration of technology in teacher education and K-12 schools. Dr. Schmidt directs a number of grants that link K-12 teachers, area education agencies and university faculty and students in collaboratives that support the diffusion of technology-supported innovations in schools. A former elementary teacher, she works extensively with K-12 teachers on the integration of technology into teaching and learning.

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Dr. Correia has a wealth of experiences in instructional technology having served as an instructional designer for Eli Lilly & Co., a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company and most recently working as Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instructional Technology at Iowa State University. She has 18 years of teaching experience at both college and K-12 level. She taught science for five years at several Portuguese K-12 schools and educational technology and curriculum development in the teacher education program offered by the University of Minho.

Her major research interests are computer-supported collaborative learning, design of educational environments, and evaluation and assessment of educational products and interventions. Her research group - Instructional Design GRP - is involved in research projects related to team dynamics, evaluation and assessment, computer-mediated communication, learner-centered and experiential learning pedagogy, blended-learning and self-managed learning, and graduate entrepreneurship.

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Clyciane Kossatz Michelini is the distance education coordinator for this program. She works with the faculty and students developing course design, student recruitment, courses design, and faculty and student technical and academic support.

Originally from Brazil, she holds a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies. She has been involved with CTLT since 1999, when she was a graduate assistant. Her passion for educational technology and the commitment to help shaping the 21st Century Education through the use of new technologies and ideas are grounded at CTLT. The friendly and open mind environment, the commitment of the faculty and staff, and the opportunity to touch the professional life of many teachers and prospective teachers were some of the reasons that made her love her job so much.

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