Resume

Education

1963

B.A. (Psychology) Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.

1966

M.S. (Experimental Psychology) Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

1969

M.A. (Education) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1970

Ph.D. (Combined Program in Psychology and Education) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Professional Experience

2000-2005

Chair - Master of Distance Education - Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College. Responsible for the design, development and delivery of a Master of Distance Education degree program designed to train the future managers of the distance education enterprise in the business, government, non-profit and education sectors. This program is a collaborative program with Oldenburg University in Germany and consists of a world-wide faculty along with a world reknown cadre of guest experts. See http://www.umuc.edu/mde/ for program description and http://info.umuc.edu/mde/ for course syllabi, faculty, etc.

 

1999-2000

Associate Dean - Graduate Studies, Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College. Responsibl;e for the proposal and initial development of a new graduate program in distance education.

 

1994-1999

Associate Vice President, Office of Instructional Development, University of Maryland University College. Responsible for a unit of 50+ people which produces all of the distance education and World Wide Web based study materials for the University. This unit provides video production, instructional design, editing, desktop publishing and computer multimedia production. The Unit is also responsible for the University's Web Site, operates a complete video studio and operates a comprehensive cable station which feeds to two cable TV networks. The unit is directly responsible for the development of all undergraduate Web-based courses for the University's Virtual Campus, which currently exceeds 100 courses.

Executive Director, International University Consortium. The IUC is a consortium of 50+ universities world-wide who share in the development and use of distance education course materials. In addition, the IUC offers conferences and workshops in the area of distance education and technology.

Director, Institute for Distance Education. The IDE is responsible for the promotion and development of distance education within the University of Maryland System, which consists of 11 state university institutions.

 

1982-94

Associate Professor, Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta. A member of the graduate faculty of the Master's program in Distance Education. Develop and deliver graduate courses in distance education and instructional design, via various media, including computer mediated communications.

Instructional Psychologist/Instructional Designer. Managed course development teams and acted as an instructional design specialist at an open learning distance university. Courses were in the Liberal Arts, Science and Business Administration. Trained faculty (via workshops and individual consultation) on basic principles of instructional design. Acted as a consultant in and conducted research on instructional design. Wrote a variety of proposals for external contracts (most of which were successful), including work for a variety of government departments and other universities.

 

1990-91

Director of a project to develop a computer-mediated distance education delivery system, Athabasca University. Responsibilities included recruitment and hiring of personnel, management of budget, and participation as an instructional psychologist within the project team. The project consisted of extensive exploration in the areas of computer conferencing, electronic mail and file transfer, the evaluation of appropriate technology and hardware, exploration of pedagogical issues, and the development of system specifications.

 

1989-90

Acting Director, Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada. Managed a department devoted to research and development in open and distance learning systems. The Centre is responsible for all institutional analysis and research within the University as well as for exploration into more effective and efficient distance education design and delivery. In addition, the Centre actively participates in various external entrepreneurial activities. Responsibilities included providing unit leadership, budget management, policy development, and ISD consultation, as well as contributing to the overall management of the academic side of the University. The Centre managed a 1.5 million dollar project, Training for Improved Performance, designed to train trainers in business and industry in the application of Instructional Systems Design. Other activities included: writing a one million dollar proposal for the research and development of a computer-mediated distance education and training system, which was funded; Negotiating a grant from the Canadian International Development Agency to and implement a one month training program for Indian educators.

 

1989-1993

Editor, Research in Distance Education. initiated, and edited a journal in the field of distance education. Duties consisted of editorial activities, development of graphics and layout, communication with authors, and writing of editorials and various features. The journal reached over 2700 distance education professionals in over 40 countries throughout the international distance education community.

 

1974-77

Owned and operated Training Design Associates, an instructional design and development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which contracted with government and industry to develop self-instructional training materials. Wrote contract proposals, supervised 8 employees, managed work production and maintained financial records.

 

1974-77

Worked as a consultant to several industries including Ford Motor Company, Johns-Manville Corp., and Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. on a variety of training and performance problems and instructional design.

 

1973-74

Contract consultant for the Division of Management Education, University of Michigan. Full time consultant to the Illinois Employment Security Commission. Acted as an instructional designer on a course development team which created a self-instructional training course for unemployment claim clerks.

 

1972-74

Director of the Performance Analysis Workshop for Praxis Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey. Held regionally across the U.S.A. and in-house for several industrial organizations. Taught participants to analyze performance problems within operating organizations and to develop effective systematic solutions to those problems.

Member of a Performance Audit team of Praxis Corporation which performed a comprehensive systems analysis of station operations for a major airline and a similar analysis of a major supermarket chain.

 

1972-73

Director of an instructional design and development project/contract for the Division of Management Education, University of Michigan. Project's purpose was to develop a comprehensive set of self-paced, self-instructional training materials for the Michigan Employment Security Commission. Wrote the initial contract proposal, managed project staff and budget, and supervised production of materials.

 

1971

Conducted workshops and lectures in instructional design and with the staff on the design of instructional systems at C.S.A.T.A., Institute of Physics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.

 

1968-72

Instructor: Program Learning Workshop held at the Center for Programmed Learning for Business, University of Michigan. Taught participants from education, business and industry how to analyze, design and write programmed instructional materials.

Instructor: Managing the Programmed Learning Effort workshop, University of Michigan. Taught participants how to manage course writing teams.

 

1969-70

Instructional Designer: Esso Education Foundation project for Improving College Instruction, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan. Contributed to proposal development; designed, tested, and implemented self-instructional materials for university teachers.

 

 

1968-70

Instructor: Faculty Program Learning Workshop held at Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan.

 

1967-76

Consulted with university faculty at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, and contributed to the design and development of self-instructional materials in the following areas: Writing Newspaper Headlines; Diagnosis of Mongolism for Physicians; Water Chemistry for Water Plant Operators; Pharmaceutical Education for Physicians.

Other Professional Activities

Member of the Advisory Board of the On-line Chronicle of Distance Education and Communication, published jointly by Nova University and University of Alaska Southeast.

Moderator and Guest Speaker of a three week computer conference on Research in Distance Education in the "Bangkok Conference", an international computer conference on Distance Education.

International Development Work

Participated in the organization and development of a month long workshop sponsored by Canadian International Development Agency in Instructional Design and Distance Education for various Indian Civil Service Teachers. 1988.

Obtained a CIDA/AUCC Micro-Grant to consult with the faculty of the Institute of Forestry in Nepal. Attended an international conference on curriculum development in Pokhara, Nepal and helped to plan further curriculum development at the Institute. 1990.

Consulted with the Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal. Helped the Institute's faculty and administration to revise their curriculum. Made several presentations government departments and ministries and helped to present the final revised curriculum to the Tribuvan University in Kathmandu. 1992.

Papers and Talks

Rubin, E.D., and Brown, S.C. Constant vs. varied serial order in paired- associate learning as a function of intralist similarity. Paper read at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Chicago, 1966.

Rubin, E.D. A description of a faculty workshop on programmed instruction. Paper read at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters meeting, Grand Valley, 1968.

Rubin, E.D. Developmental revision: A technique for training programmers. Paper read at the National Society for Programmed Instruction convention, Anaheim,1970.

Rubin, E.D. What to do when you can't do what you're supposed to do: Task Analysis. Paper read at the National Society for Programmed Instruction convention, San Francisco, 1973.

Rubin, E.D. Improving Teaching at an Open University: Factors Affecting Part- time Instructors (Tutors). Paper read at the Conference for the Evaluation and Improvement of University Teaching, Montebello, Quebec, 1983. (Co-authored by G. Peruniak and R. Spencer)

Rubin, E.D. The changing role of instructional development services in distance education institution. Paper read at the Fifth Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Ottawa, Ontario, 1985.

Rubin, E.D. Tracking student performance in university distance education: problems and solutions. Paper read at the Fifth Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Ottawa, Ontario, 1985.

Rubin, E.D. and Schmittroth, L. Monitoring student performance at Athabasca University: A modified CMI system for continuous enrollments at a distance university. Paper read at the Fifth Canadian Symposium on Instructional Technology. Ottawa, Ontario, 1986.

Rubin, E. & Spencer, R. Overview of distance education as a system. Alberta Association for Continuing Education, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October, 1989.

Rubin, E. & Spencer, R. Designing distance education: System implications. National Society for Performance and Instruction conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October, 1990.

Rubin, E and Spencer, R. Performance Analysis: a tool for distance education management. International Council for Distance Education conference. Caracas, Venezuela, 1990.

Rubin, E., et. al. Neats vs. Scruffies: Applied Science versus reflective practitioner, A panel discussion. International Council for Distance Education conference. Caracas, Venezuela, November, 1990.

Organized, ran and participated in a Crackerbarrel discussion session at the ICDE conference in Caracas, Venezuela, 1990. The Crackerbarrel consisted of 40 discussion groups attended by approximated 400 participants.

Rubin, E. & Spencer, R. Distance education and training: Training for educators. National Society for Performance and Instruction conference. Los Angeles, CA., April 1991.

Rubin, E. A rose is a rose is a rose..... or is it? Is my brand of distance education the same as yours? Canadian Association for Distance Education, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May, 1992.

Rubin, E., B. Spencer, R. Wells, D. Howard, & C. VanDuren Practical considerations in the development of a computer-mediated- communications system. Canadian Association for Distance Education, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 1992.

Rubin, E. and Bernath, U. Professional Developemnt in Distance Education: A Cross Cultural Course for University Faculty. The 18th ICDE World Conference, Pennsylvania State University, June 1997.

Rubin, E. and Bernath, U. A Virtual Seminar for International Professional Development in Distance Education. The European Distance Education Network Conference. Bologna, Italy, 1998.

Publications

Rubin, E.D. and Brown, S.C. Constant vs varied serial in paired associate learning: The effect of formal intralist similarity. Journal Experimental Psychology. 1967, 73, 257-262.

Brown, S.C. and Rubin, E.D. Cue utilization in serial learning. Journal Experimental Psychology. 1967, 74, 550-555.

Rubin, E.D. (ed.) Bibliography of Published Self-instructional Programs in the Health Sciences. Ann Arbor: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 1967.

Rubin, E.D. Effective program revision. Design and Development. Ann Arbor: Center for Programmed Learning for Business, 1970, Vol. 1. No. 2.

Rubin, E.D. Answer availability and answer observing in programmed instruction. A doctoral dissertation: University of Michigan, 1970.

Rubin, E.D. Programmed Instruction: Book 3 of Designing More Effective College Instruction. A self-instructional text published by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching: Ann Arbor, 1970.

Holt, Peter, Rubin, E.D. and Schmittroth, L. Student monitoring in distance education. ICDE Bulletin. 1987, Vol. 14.

Peruniak, G., Rubin, E., & Spencer, R. Improving Teaching at an Open University: Factors affecting part-time instructors (tutors). Proceedings of the Conference on the Evaluation and Improvement of University Teaching: The Canadian Experience. Montreal: McGill University, Centre for Teaching and Learning Services.

Rubin, E., R. Spencer, R. Wells, D. Howard, & C. VanDuren Chapter 7: Practical Considerations in the Development of a Computer Mediated Communications System. In Selected Readings. Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, B.C. 1993.

Morrison, R., Rubin, E.D. & Messerschmidt, D. Putting Community Forestry into the Curriculum: A Case Study from Nepal. Forest, Trees and People. 1994.

Rubin, E. Why bother? The ups and downs of a distance education research journal. Research in Distance Education. Vol. 5, No. 1/2, pp. 1-4.

Rubin, E. The Virtual University: A Case Study of the University of Maryland University College. in Virtueller Campus, Hartmut Simon, Ed. 1997, pp.91-100.

Rubin, E. and Bernath, U. A Virtual Seminar for International Professional Development in Distance Education. Informatik Forum, Band 12, Nr. 1, March 1998.

Rubin, E. and Bernath U. Final Report and Documentation of the Virtual Seminar for Professional Development in Distance Education. Bibliotheks und Informationssystem der Universitat Oldenburg, 1999, 433pp.

Rubin, E. and Bernath, U. Professional Development in Distance Education. In Lockwood, F. & Gooley, A. (eds) Innovation in Open and Distance Learning, Kogan Page: London, 2001, pp. 213-223.

Bernath U. and Rubin, E (Eds.) Reflections on Teaching and Learning in an Online Master Program: A Case Study Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Universitat Oldenburg: Oldenburg, 2003, 295pp.

Rubin, E., Bernath, U. & Parker, M. The Master of Distance Education Program: A collaboration between the University of Maryland University College and Oldenburg University. Journal of Asynchronous Networks Vol 8. Issue 3.