Lisa M. Lane has been a history instructor at MiraCosta College in California since 1989 and has been teaching online for over a decade. As founder of MiraCosta’s Program for Online Teaching, she works with both novice and experienced online instructors and emphasizes the pedagogical foundations of distance education. She writes and blogs on issues of interest to online professors, instructional technologists, and teachers. Lisa holds a Master’s in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an Online Teaching Certificate from UCLA.
Blogs
Social Media and Open Education Course Blog
Education
Certificate, Online Teaching Program, UCLA 2005
M.A. History, University of California, Santa Barbara 1989
B.A. History, California State University, Bakersfield 1986
Employment
Online History Instructor, MiraCosta College (1998-present)
History Instructor, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California (1989-present)
Teaching and Technology Leadership
- Director, Program for Online Teaching, MiraCosta College (2005-present)
- New Media Consortium Campus Leader (2010-present)
- Consultant for Online Instruction, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (2009-present)
- Moodle Faculty Lead (2007-present)
- Chair, Technology and Pedagogy Committee (1999-2003 and 2005-06)
Recent Presentations
“Beginners All-Day Online Teaching Workshop” (January 2011) blog post
“Instructor Presence” for Virginia Commonwealth University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute [session recording or slides with audio] (June 2010)
Program for Online Teaching MiniConference (January 2010)
“Adventures in Online Pedagogy” with Jim Sullivan [ video]
“Online Instructors Roundtable”
Program for Online Teaching MiniConference (August 2009)
“Getting Started Teaching Online” with Jim Sullivan [ video]
“Teaching a Hybrid Class” with Jim Sullivan
“Online Teaching Class Showcase”
“The Unconference Panel”
Program for Online Teaching MiniConference (January 2009)
“Online Pedagogy: Brain-Friendly Learning” with Jim Sullivan [ video]
“Serious Play: Online Discovery Workshop” [ source page]
Desktop Seminar
Building Community Online, Part 2: Blogging for Fun and Learning (Oct 2008) (slides)
Program for Online Teaching MiniConference (August 2008)
“Beginning Online Teaching: Moving an Onsite Class to Online”
“Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm” [ podcast]
“Using Moodle”
“Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning” (for new faculty) [ slides]
2008 Online Teaching Conference (June 2008)
“Enhancing Online Teaching with Web 2.0″ [ video]
Program for Online Teaching Summer workshops (June 2008)
“Teaching Well Online” [ video, audio]
“Getting the Most from Moodle” [ audio]
2008 Online Teaching Excellence Symposium (April 2008)
“Interactivity and Learning Styles”
Publications
Chapters: “Teaching with Style” and “Making Course Management Systems Work”
Teaching the Humanities Online: A Practical Guide to the Virtual Classroom
S. Hoffman & K. Robison (Eds.) M. E. Sharpe (Dec 2010)
Interviewed for “The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses“, Unlimited Magazine (Sept 2010)
Guest Editor for Special Online Teaching Edition: A Collection of GIFTs:
Great Ideas for Teaching, MiraCosta College Writing Center [pdf] (Fall 2010)
“Insidious Pedagogy: How Course Management Systems Impact Teaching”
First Monday [Online], Volume 14 Number 10 (27 September 2009)
“Toolbox or Trap? Course Management Systems and Pedagogy”
EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2 (April–June 2008)
Research Interests
History of technology, technology and culture, new media, online pedagogy, learning theory, open education.
Authored Online Resources
History Lecture Collection and Digital Repository
Toolbox
Proficient in HTML, WordPress, Elluminate, Dreamwever, Slideshare, Diigo, Netvibes, Google Docs, PB Works, Nucleus2, Tumblr, Vimeo…
Current online classes and more tools…
Professional Development
ds106: Digital Storytelling (Spring 2011), open participant, University of Mary Washington
EC&I 831: Social Media and Open Education (2010) for graduate credit, University of Regina
Sloan-C: Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium (July 2010)
Ed-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (June 2009)
From Courses to Dis-course (May 2009)
Connectivism: Massive Open Online Course (2008) for graduate credit, University of Manitoba
More professional development…
Memberships, Affiliations and Networks
Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
Sloan Consortium
Moodle (Moodle.org)
EDUCAUSE
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Society for History Education
CC History: Community College Historians Group
National Social Science Association
Organization of American Historians
H-NET: H-TEACH and H-EDTECH (listservs)
Classroom 2.0
EdTechTalk
Contact
Email: lisa@lisahistory.net
Twitter: LisaMLane
AIM and Yahoo Messenger: lisalanesoffice
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