Who am I?
Dr. Tom Carey is a Professor of Management Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, currently on leave as also Visiting Senior Scholar at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education at San Diego State University, and the Chancellor’s Office of the California State University. Dr. Carey has provided leadership for numerous initiatives to develop strategic excellence for learning and innovation. His current projects centre on mobilizing knowledge for exemplary teaching in higher education:
Ontario (Canada) - Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario: Senior Director, Knowledge Mobilization for Exemplary Teaching and Learning (www.heqco.ca)
National (U.S.) - Program Director, MERLOT ELIXR program
http://elixr.merlot.org
California - Founding Director and now Special Consultant for the California State University program for Transforming Course Design
http://www.calstate.edu/ats/transforming_course_design/
- Program Director, Faculty Collaborations for Course TransformationS [FACCTS...implementing instructional practices from the Basic Skills Initiative for Developmental Math courses in partner California community colleges]
Tom is also a Senior Associate of the TLT Group in Washington D.C. (www.tltgroup.org), a member of the Board of Governors of St. Paul's College at the University of Waterloo (http://www.stpauls.uwaterloo.ca/) and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Knowledge Mobilization (www.cckm.ca).
Past Lives:
For 2006 and 2007, Dr. Carey was on leave from the University of Waterloo as Chief Learning Officer of the MERLOT network (www.merlot.org).
From 2002 to 2006, Tom served as the University of Waterloo's Associate Vice-President for Learning Resources & Innovation, where his mandate focused on enhancing learning through innovations in teaching and technology [http://www.learning.uwaterloo.ca]. While at Waterloo Tom has also been the founding Director of the university's Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology, and founding Director of Ontario’s Cooperative Learning Object Exchange. Before returning to Waterloo - where he received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science - Dr. Carey had management responsibilities in other Canadian universities, including Executive Director of Graduate Program Development and Co-Director of Teaching Support Services.
As a faculty member, Dr. Carey was one of the founders of Human-Computer Interaction as an academic discipline in Canada. He was also co-leader of the Workplace Research theme in Canada’s TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence, where he directed research in workplace learning with government, not-for-profit and corporate partners such as IBM Canada, Nortel Networks, and the Bank of Montreal. He has advised numerous higher education institutions and government agencies on learning and teaching strategy, and has received awards for his pioneering contributions to curriculum development, for research papers and for corporate-university partnership.
Recent Research Publications:
Carey, T.T., invited Foreword, Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects, L. Lockyer, S. Bennett, S. Agostinho, and B. Harper (eds.), Information Science Reference/IGI Global, 2008.
CArey, T.T., A Knowledge Exchange Network for Exemplary Teaching in Higher Education, http://knowledgexchangenetwork.edublogs.org/, Research report for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2008
Carey, T.T. and G. Hanley, Extending the Impact of Open Educational Resources: Lessons Learned from MERLOT, book chapter in Opening Up Education: Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge in Support of the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, ed T. Iiyoshi and V. Kumar, Carnegie Foundation/MIT Press, 2007.
Penny Light, T., K. Harrigan, L. Bringelson and T. Carey, Collaboration and Community Building: Extending Instructional Design Models to Foster Reusability, chapter in Learning Objects and Instructional Designs, ed. Alex Koohang and Keith Harman, pp. 197-218, Informing Sciences Press 2007.
Pidduck, A. and T.T. Carey, Partner Power: A Study of Two Distance Education Consortia, International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning, Vol 7, No 3 (2006), http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/330
Buzza, D., L. Richards, D. Bean, K. Harrigan and T. Carey, LearningMapR: A Prototype Tool for Creating IMS-LD Compliant Units of Learning, Journal of Interactive Media in Education [Special Issue: Advances in Learning Design], 2005/17, http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2005/17/
Mao, J., P. Smith, K, Vredenberg, and T.T. Carey, The State of User-Centered Design Practice, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 48(3), pp. 105-109, March 2005. To be reprinted as a chapter in IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2006.
Recent Conference Presentations:
Carey, T.T., From Commons to Collaboratory: Mobilizing Knowledge for Exemplary Teaching, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Edmonton AB, October 2008.
Carey, T.T., J. Cheng, B. Christie, W.M. Fang and T. Souza, “Digital Case Stories for Faculty Development: Whose Story? Whose Development?”, demo/poster accepted for POD Network Conference 08, Reno NV, October 2008.
Carey, T.T., The Role of Online Knowledge Exchanges in Educational Development (paper) and ELIXR Digital Case Stories for Educational Development (poster), 2008 Winter Conference, Canadian Educational Developers’ Caucus, Vancouver B.C., February 2008.
Carey, T., From Repositories Supported by Communities to Communities Supported by Repositories, Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 07, Singapore, December 2007.
Carey, T.T., J. Grimes, L. Zweier and C. Desrochers, Helping Faculty Make First Class Meetings Be Really First Class, demo/poster at POD Network Conference 07, Pittsburgh PA, October 2007
Carey, T.T., L. Zweier and C. Desrochers, Workshop on ELIXR Case Stories for Faculty Development, MERLOT International Conference, New Orleans LA, August 2007.
Carey, T.T. and G. Hanley, Integrating Practice-based And Research-based Pedagogical Knowledge To Enhance Reuse of Exemplary Learning Resources, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning annual conference, Sydney AU, July 2007.
Zweier, L, T.T. Carey and K. Nakayama, Using Digital Case Stories to Engage Faculty with Innovative Teaching Practices, Proceedings New Media Centers Conference Summer 2007, Indianapolis IN, June 2007.
Myers, M., S. Berryhill, G. Shankweiler, M.Vo, L. Zweier, T.Carey and K. Nakayama, Increasing Learning in Organic Chemistry Using Active/Cooperative Learning Combined With Actual Observed Student Interaction, 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HW, January 2007.
Carey, T., J. Dautermann, S.. Metros, J. Mott, L. Zweier, C. Desrochers, Toward the Online Teaching Commons: Extending Learning Object Repositories with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, January 2007.
Carey, T.T. and S. Simpkins, First Steps Toward an Online Teaching Commons: Perspectives on Integrating Scholarly Resources on the Web, working session at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and learning Conference, Washington D.C., November 2006.
Carey, T.T. and T. Penny Light, Making Scholarship Explicit in Peer Reviews of Online Learning Objects, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and learning Conference, Washington D.C., November 2006.
Allen, B., T.T. Carey and R. Purdom, “Extending Re-usable Learning Resources to Support an Online Teaching Commons”, PODNetwork conference, Portland OR, October 2006
Carey, T. T., and T. Penny Light, “Explicit Scholarship in Peer Review of Online Learning Objects”, workshop presented for MERLOT Editors Council, Savannah GA, April 2006; MERLOT International Conference, Ottawa ON, August 2006.
Carey, T.T. and E. Walker, Providing more and better options for digital course content, working session for IMS Global Learning Consortium annual meeting on Advancing Learning Technology Interoperability and Innovation, Indianapolis IN, June 2006
Carey, T.T., “Preparing Undergraduates for Engagement with Research & Innovation “, Canadian Summit on the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, Edmonton AB, May 2006.
