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Last year John published a book chapter on Digital Libraries and Web-Based Training. He gave a presentation at Penn State on web technology for agriculture and traveled twice to India to present on similar topics. John is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Educational Technology.

Education & Experience - John has BA and MA degrees in philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy of education. He wrote his thesis on the epistemology of critical thinking instruction and his dissertation on the psychology of general education. He has served as a Visiting Professor in Agriculture and an Assistant Professor in Education. He founded the AIM lab in 1993. The lab was among the first in the world to focus on Web technologies for teaching and outreach.

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John chaired the campus-wide Web Support Initiative under the direction of the Provost's Office and the Educational Technology Board. He served on the Organizing Committee for Cyberfest. John played a liaison role between ACES and NCSA for several years and served on the Advisory Committees for the Education and Outreach Division.  He served on the Building Committee for the new ACES Library. While in the College of Education as an Assistant Professor, John served on the College Technology Committee and the Executive Committee of the Technology for Learning Program, the Advisory Board of the program in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. John co-authored a successful proposal to develop an online masters degree in the Department of Human Resource Education and a distance mentoring project with the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.

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