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As Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College, Mr. Baron is responsible for supporting instructional technology initiatives, including distance learning, faculty training, and student support. He plays a leadership role on-campus in the area of strategic planning and is currently serving on the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and holds MS in Educational Technology Leadership from George

As Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College, Mr. Baron is responsible for supporting a wide range of instructional technology initiatives, including distance learning, faculty professional development, and learner support. He also plays a leadership role in strategic planning for the College in areas of academic and information technology. Mr. Baron was elected to the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors in 2008 and is also a member of the EducationDynamics Advisory Board. Before coming to Marist, Mr. Baron was the associate director of instructional technology at Stevens Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he helped lead a $10 million U.S. Department of Education technology initiative working both at the K-12 and college level. He was also a member for the Stevens WebCampus initiative and developed one of the first Stevens online graduate courses. Mr. Baron has presented at numerous higher education and K-12 conference including EDUCAUSE, NECC, Sloan-C, League of Innovation CIT, and the international Sakai conferences. He has taught students from the Kindergarten to graduate level in face-to-face, blended and fully online formats. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Master of Arts degree (online) in Educational Technology Leadership form George Washington University.

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Managing public relations, in print and online, for the Office of Academic Technology to the school and community, working with faculty and staff to arrange training sessions in office and in the field, managing orientations for Graduate Student Technical Consultants, liaison between faculty and the Office of AT, tracking innovative learning/teaching practices within the Marist community.

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I am a developmental psychologist. I teach psychology and education undergraduate and graudate in courses including Introductory Psycholgy, Social Psychology, Personality Development, Measurement and Evaluation, and Psychoeducational Assessment. I teach both on the ground and online courses. I have taught at Marist for 27 years and elsewhere for 6 years. I serve as Chair of Psychology and Chair of the Online Distance Education Committee.

I love teaching. I am known to be a "task master." I expect a lot of my students and I provide them with a great deal of support and feedback. I think provide frequent and varied assessments. I am willing to review work a head of time and provide feedback to enhance learning. I am available to my students from 7:00 AM until 9:00 PM most days of the week. Most of my contact is online, but they do come to my office and do call me at home or at my office. I prefer on the ground teaching, but have learned a great deal from teaching fully online courses. In fact, teaching these courses has helped me become a more effective on the ground teacher. I have written four books and authored several articles. I frequently contribute to popular media as an expert consultant. And, I have also been on national television 5 times (honestly, it is fun being a celebrity for a few minutes).

I have two grown children. I have been married for 35 years to the best man on earth! We have a small farm with eight horses. We do kitten rescue work for a non-kill national organization. I have been a board member and officer at several local human service agencies across the years. We believe we should give to others as much as we can.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Education Programs in the Teacher Education Department at Marist College.

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Craig has enjoyed a 20 year career at IBM where he advanced through various Information Systems positions. Craig has served as fourth level manager of a computer center with over 200 employees and became IBM's World Wide IS Audit Manager before joining Marist College.
In 1989 Craig began a career as an Information Systems professor at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Science at the University at Albany, New York.
Craig was Program co-Chair, editor, contributor, on the Board of Directors and past President of the Information Quality International Conference held annually at MIT. Craig is co-editor of a book entitled "Information Quality" and is lead author of a textbook entitled "Introduction to Information Quality" published in August 2008.

I am Instructional Designer for Academic Technology & eLearning at Marist College. In this capacity, I train faculty to use Sakai and other learning technologies to enhance student learning, collaborate in the design of technology-enhanced learning activities, and oversees the deployment of the OSP pilot projects.

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Mark A. Van Dyke, Ph.D. (B.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an associate professor of communication at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. His teaching and research interests include public relations, conflict management, and organizational and intercultural communication. His research focuses primarily on strategic management of public relations as a means to manage interorganizational and international conflicts. Prior to embarking on his academic career, he served for 29 years in the U.S. Navy.

Mark A. Van Dyke, Ph.D. (B.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an associate professor of communication at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. His teaching and research interests include public relations, conflict management, and organizational and intercultural communication. His research focuses primarily on strategic management of public relations as a means to manage interorganizational and international conflicts. Prior to embarking on his academic career, he served for 29 years in the U.S. Navy. He retired in 2000 as Deputy Chief of Information, the second-highest ranking public relations executive in the U.S. Navy. He also served as the Chief of Information for the 60,000-member NATO-led peace implementation force that deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995. He earned NATO’s highest award and the United States military’s second-highest peacetime award for his management of crisis public relations programs during his one-year assignment there. Dr. Van Dyke was named Marist College’s Faculty Member of the Year in 2007 for his commitment to excellence in education and service to the student body. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe; and he has coauthored a book chapter and several scholarly articles in peer-reviewed academic journals.

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