Vita: Lorraine Sherry, Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise
- Instructional Design & Adult Learning
- Computer-supported collaborative learning
- Computer-supported instructional conversations
- Professional and technical communication
- Needs Assessment
- Research & Evaluation
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Diffusion of eLearning & ILT
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (1998)
Educational Leadership and Innovation
Curriculum, Learning and Technology
University of Colorado Denver
Master of Education (1994)
Instructional Technology
University of South Florida, Tampa FL
Master of Science (1969)
Physics
Northeastern University, Boston MA
Master of Arts in Teaching (1962)
Concentration in Secondary School Physics
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA
Bachelor of Arts (1961)
Physics
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Professional Experience
The Academy for Lifelong Learning
Course Leader
- Brilliantly Baroque: Music from Renaissance to 1750 (Fall 2015)
- Facilitator: The Power of Maps: Science, History, Discovery (Spring 2015)
- Facilitator: The Power of Maps: Art and Destiny (Fall 2013)
- Sacred Music (Spring 2012)
- The Garden as Art Part 3 (Fall 2011)
- The Garden as Art Part 2 (Fall 2010)
- The Garden as Art Part 1 (Fall 2009)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at D.U.
Facilitator (Retired)
- Facilitator: World Gardens Part 2 (Spring 2010)
- Facilitator: World Gardens (Spring 2008)
- Co-Facilitator: Particle Physics for Non-Physicists (2007)
University of Colorado Denver
Adjunct Faculty (Retired)
Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) Program
- Instructor: Leadership and Practice in ILT
- Instructor: Student Instructional Technology Corps
- Doctoral Committee Member: External Reader
RMC Research Corporation
Senior Research Associate (Retired)
- Co-Director of evaluations for The WEB Project, The
Electronic Learning Marketplace (ELM) Project, GENASYS PT3 Catalyst Grant,
El Paso Challenge '98 TICG Grant, and Western State College Teacher
Quality Improvement (TQE) Grant.
- Qualitative research team leader for national evaluation of 1999 PT3
Implementation Grantees.
- Director of evaluations for the Virtual Assistive Technology
University (VATU); Teacher Education Network (TEN) and
Great Cities Universities (GCU) PT3 Catalyst Grants; Project TALENT
and Project p2/t3 PT3 Implementation Grants; Flow of History and History
Harvest Teaching American History Grants.
- Member of evaluation team for The Boulder Valley Internet Project, The
Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project, the OVAE Connecting
Disconnected Youth Project, the Colorado Consortium on Data Driven
Decisions (C2D3), and the Texas Homeland Security Learn and Serve Project.
- Needs assessment: Caddo Parish, LA.
- Web-Based Training: Teachers' Internet Use Guide.
- Wrote numerous proposals for evaluation of federal, state, and
foundation-funded grants.
Pacific Mountain Network
Research Assistant
Needs Assessment: Preservice/inservice training for distance
educators.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Graduate Assistant
Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
Developed job aids for telecommunications.
University of South Florida, Lakeland, FL
Adjunct teacher-in-training and Teaching Assistant
Department of Engineering Technology.
Polk Community College, Winter Haven, FL
Tutor: Teaching-learning-computer Center.
Needs Assessment: The Employable Graduate.
Maha Retreat House, Inc., Newton, MA
Assistant Director
- Responsible for Landscape Design & Maintenance Contracts.
- Taught yoga classes.
The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Associate Technical Staff
- Designed simulations and computer-based analysis programs.
- Wrote/edited/reviewed documents for the Radar Systems Analysis
Department.
- Served on the Federal Advisory Council on False Identification.
Publications
Books
Sherry, L. (2000, February). Help At Last: Using Technology to Create
Productive Learning Environments. Denver CO: RMC Research Corporation.
(28 pages.)
Johnson, R.E. (1995). A Model Computer: Algorithms for Machine and
Assembly Programming. Minneapolis: West Publishing Company.
Designed, edited, and published a user's manual for a model
computer simulation developed by Richard Johnson, Professor Emeritus,
Massachusetts Bay Community College. (162 pages.)
Barron, A.E., Hoffman, D., Ivers, K., & Sherry, L. (1994).
Telecommunications: Ideas, Activities, Resources. Tampa:
University of South Florida, The Florida Center for Instructional
Technology. (74 pages.)
Book Chapters
Sherry, L., & Billig, S.H. (2008). Instructional
conversations: Designing dialogue to deepen learning.
In R. Luppicini (Ed.), Handbook of Conversation Design for
Instructional Applications, pp. 144-160. Information Science
Reference, Hershey PA.
Sherry, L. (2004). Diffusing e-learning: Myths, questions, and
experiences. In G. Kearsley (Ed.), Online learning: Personal
reflections on the transformation of education, pp. 370-397.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Sherry, L., Havelock, B., & Gibson, D. (2004). The Personal
Learning Planner: An online environment for mentoring, collaboration, and
publication. In T. Roberts (Ed.), Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning in Higher Education, pp. 201-217. Hershey, PA:
Idea Group Publishing.
Wilson, B., Sherry, L., Dobrovolny, J., Batty, M., & Ryder, M. (2002).
Adoption of learning technologies in schools and universities. In H. H.
Adelsberger, B. Collis, & J. M. Pawlowski (Eds.), Handbook on
information technologies for education & training, pp. 293-307. New
York: Springer-Verlag.
Sherry, L. (2001). Internet and World Wide Web usage in an institution of
higher learning. In C.D. Maddux & D.L. Johnson (Eds.), The Web in
Higher Education, pp. 91-105. New York: The Haworth Press.
Hoffman, D.; Sherry, L.; Lurie, J.; & McDaniel, J. (2001). The Teachers'
Internet Use Guide: Web-Based Training for Educators. In B. Khan (Ed.),
Web-Based Training, pp. 485-490.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Sherry, L., & Wilson, B. (1997). Transformative Communication as a
Stimulus to Web Innovations. In B. Khan (Ed.), Web-based
Instruction, pp. 67-73. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology
Publications.
Other Publications and Presentations
Please see My Publications.
Honors and Awards
- Who's Who in America
- Who's Who of American Women
- Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
- Who's Who in Instructional Technology
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Who's Who in Instructional Technology
- ECT Foundation 1999, Dean and Sybil McClusky Research Award
- Outstanding Doctoral Student in Curriculum, Learning, and Technology
- Colorado Graduate Fellowship
- Kappa Delta Pi
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Phi Theta Kappa
Other Activities
- Colorado Master Gardener
- Member, NorthPark East HOA Landscape Improvement Advisory Committee
- Choir Member, Boulder Messiah Chorale
- Secretary and Web Development, Rocky Mountain Map Society
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