Opened Practices Users Working at: Bradley University

1501 W. Bradley Ave

I oversee the use and functionality of Sakai on our campus and help faculty accomplish their teaching and learning goals with the aid of technology.

1500 W. Bradley Avenue
Burgess Hall 407

Teach Math methods for elementary, middle school, and secondary. Also do diversity in study abroad program and Instructional Models in graduate work.

I have taught for 37 years, in schools around the world, at levels from third grade the doctorate work. My subject area has been mathematics, and my passion has been reaching the very bright students. After more than a decade teaching in public school in rural Illinois, I went overseas to teach in high schools in Greece, West Germany (before the wall came down), and in Malaysia. Upon returning to the USA, I completed a masters and a PhD in curriculum and instruction. Since then I have taught at Bradley University in the department of Teacher Education.

My work has involved technology almost since it became available - I started with a Commodore PET in a rural high school, and moved on from there. At the university level, I have always had students using some of the technology - so that it was a learning experience for both them and myself.

The Sakai management has been used extensively since we moved from BlackBoard to Sakai. For me, Sakai also represents part of the message that I want my students to understand - there is material out there that everyone can use. My students are going into the teaching field and they must access good quality material that has little/no cost - because in the USA, we just do not see the need for all students to have access to the best.

Center For International Studies
Bradley University
Peoria, Illinois 61625

Michael is currently completing law school and working as a part time professor at Bradley University in the Department of International Studies. He is registered with the California Bar Association as a student member. He holds two Masters Degrees; One in Management from the University of Phoenix, the other in International Studies from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. Along with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science also from St. John Fisher College.

1501 West Bradley Avenue

I graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a doctorate in chemistry and went to work for Monsanto Company as a chemist for more than 20 years. I rose through the ranks to be come a Fellow in Corporate Research. My position was eliminated in a corporate downsizing in 1999. I then spent the following three years at Washington University in St. Louis as a Research Scientist in the Dept. of Chemistry and returned to the industrial world for another 6 years before assuming my present position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bradley University.

During my time as an industrial scientist I was continuously teaching and training junior scientists in order to increase their on-the-job effectiveness. I enjoyed this responsibility and made it a personal goal to one day make a career change and take a full-time teaching position at a college or university. My first formal college teaching experience came in 2007 at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I taught an advanced analytical chemistry course to graduate students. This experience was actually a part-time assignment I did while still employed full-time in industry. The experience solidified my career goal to do full-time college teach and the opportunity to do so came in 2009 in the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bradley University. My primary teaching responsibility at Bradley is the Analytical Chemistry sequence which is required of all chemistry and biochemistry majors. My main teaching interest in this position is provide students the knowledge they will need to do "real-world" science in the private companies where many of them will find employment. A critical element of doing science in industry is developing a high level of skill with electronic acquisition, reduction and archiving systems for managing research information. My students need exposure to modern research data management techniques and the Wiki tool is Sakai has provided me with the means to develop an electronic laboratory notebook for students to use in performing laboratory experiments which are part of the courses I teach. It is my desire to institutionalize this approach across in the university's science departments, starting with other upper-division chemistry courses. I believe the experiences gained using electronic laboratory notebooks will give Bradley students a competitive edge early in their professional careers and launch them towards long-term career success.

1501 W Bradley Avenue

Dr. Elshahat joined Bradley University in the fall 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. He received his Ph.D. from Florida International University (FIU) in Finance. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Financial and Economic Practice (JFEP). Dr. Elshahat area of expertise is equity portfolio construction and optimization, time varying co-volatility forecasting, and macroeconomic news effect. He has a rich teaching experience in accounting and finance for both graduate and undergraduate. Dr. Elshahat is a Certified Financial Manager (CFM) and he worked in the field as a financial analyst. His community activities include coaching a youth basketball team, and serving as the advisor of Bradley's MSA.