Opened Practices Users Working in: Geology

Geology Department
10th Street
Indiana University

Jeremy Dunning is a professor of geophysics at Indiana University. Dunning was one of the early adopters of technology in education in the late 1980’s. He was coauthor of the first interactive textbook, the award winning In TerraActive. He has won a number of awards for his work in this arena including the 2006 Ernest Boyer Award. This award “honors the world's highly creative men and women who have contributed significantly to teaching, learning and technology in higher education. Nominees for the award are chosen in institution-wide searches and have contributed in highly creative ways to teaching, learning and technology.”  Dunning has previously won the 2006 innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology from Teach-Learn.org,  the Alfred Sloan Foundation Sloan-C Best Practices Award (2003), the ACHE Novel Use of Technology Award (2004), the ICI Gold Medal (2003), three Envisage New Media finalist awards for his CDROM In-Terra Active (1995), the distinguished course award from the University Continuing Education Association (1997). He has won three best paper awards at international conferences on teaching and learning, was the 1996 Distinguished Fellow at the Agency for Instructional Technology, and was the 1986 Hearst Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. Dunning is also the developer of the award winning TALON repurposeable learning object templates, which are used by four of the five largest publishers in the world, 83 universities and several ministries of education around the world. He is also the founder and president of Arjuna Multimedia and has active teaching and research programs at Indiana University, where he won this year’s Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award. Dunning is the author of over 120 articles, eight CDROM textbooks, and five books.