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The current members of the LTRG are listed below:
Terry Carter – is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches graduate students in adult learning and human resource development. She holds an M.A. in education and human development and an Ed.D. in human resource development from The George Washington University. Her research interests include transformative learning among professionals in the workplace and the scholarship of teaching and learning with technology.
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Jeff Nugent – is Co-Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and provides leadership for program development and services that support the effective use of technology in teaching and learning. His research interests focus on faculty adoption and effective use of technology to support teaching practices. Current projects include working with faculty to explore the instructional uses of web-based tools to support collaborative learning, developing resources to support transition to online teaching, and the role of faculty learning communities in sustaining meaningful uses of technology in teaching.
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Martin Reardon – is an assistant professor in the educational leadership department of the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include learning-centered leadership, educational quality and equality, and technology-infused learning. He is currently the chair of the School-University Collaborative Research Special Interest Group (SUCR-SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
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Joan Rhodes – is an associate professor of reading education in the department of teaching and learning at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Rhodes has over 22 years of teaching experience in diverse roles at the preschool, elementary, middle school, and collegiate levels and has served as an English as a second language educator and a reading specialist. She was awarded the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education Distinguished Scholar Award in 2007 for her work in the areas of literacy in digital environments, emergent literacy, and the impact of study abroad experiences on pre-service educators.
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Fran Smith – is the technology coordinator for the Virginia Department of Education’s Training and Technical Assistance Center at the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned her Ed.D. from The George Washington University in 2008 for her study “Perceptions of Universal Design for Learning in College Classrooms.” Her research interests are in universal design for learning, assistive and instructional technologies, and social media. She is currently a member of the National Taskforce on UDL and co-moderates a National Online Community of Practice on UDL for http://www.Sharedwork.org.
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