Patricia McGee
Faculty member selected for technology fellowship
(Sept. 9, 2002)--University of Texas at San Antonio faculty member Patricia McGee has been selected for a National Learning Infrastructure Initiative Fellowship, one of only two awarded nationwide for 2003 by the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) coalition and EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association that supports information technology in higher education. During the fellowship, she will assist the NLLI in planning and facilitating regional meetings, product development and research.
McGee, who is an assistant professor in instructional technology in the College of Education and Human Development, has explored the creation and use of online learning environments for many years. Her background in distance education began in 1986, when she developed and taught the first art history course for the TI-IN network, a collaborative venture between a private corporation and the Texas Education Agency offered for high school students across the country. She also piloted one of the first courses provided through the UT TeleCampus, a centralized support system for the 15 University of Texas System academic components.
At UTSA, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses online since1997 and is program facilitator for an instructional technology concentration at the master's-degree level. As project director of a U.S. Department of Education PT3 Implementation grant, she has worked with faculty to infuse and integrate technology into the university learning-environment. McGee was also awarded an American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)-Microsoft Innovative Teachers Grant.
An alumna of UTSA and UT-Austin, where she completed her doctorate in curriculum and instruction, McGee has spent the last two summers at the Joint Advanced Distributed Co-Lab exploring interactivity and reusable learning objects, especially as they relate to inter-operability.
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative comprises colleges, universities,
nonprofit organizations, publishers, software companies and information technology
businesses that work to enhance and improve teaching and learning environments
through innovative applications of information technology.
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