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Mark Bullenmbullen1@my.bcit.ca aboutwork experienceI am the Associate Dean of the Learning & Teaching Centre (LTC). The mandate of the LTC is to support learning and teaching at BCIT by assisting with the development of curriculum and promoting the effective use of technology for teaching and learning. The Learning & Teaching Centre has a staff of over 60 which includes instructional development consultants, technical writers, graphic designers, desktop and web publishers, media producers and technical support personnel. My main areas of responsibility are curriculum and instructor development and educational research and innovation.Before joining BCIT in 2005, I spent 23 years at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Most recently I was the Director of the Centre for Managing & Planning E-Learning (MAPLE) where I initiated, managed and conducted research on e-learning. MAPLE research projects focused on institutional planning and management issues, policy, and social and educational impacts of e-learning. I was also the assistant, associate and acting Director of the Distance Education & Technology department at UBC. I have extensive international consulting experience related to online course development and the planning and management of e-learning. I have taught workshops on developing and delivering online instruction and the planning and management of e-learning in Mexico, Malaysia, Taiwan, Bhutan, Croatia and Canada and I have been a consultant on distance education projects in Mongolia, Indonesia and Bhutan. I teach in the Athabasca University Master of Distance Education and the University of British Columbia Master of Educational Technology. I have been involved in distance education since 1982 when I began working at the University of British Columbia as a producer of Knowledge Network educational television programs. Before that I spent four years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a television news journalist. educationI have a Ph.D. in Adult Education (1997), a Masters degree in Educational Psychology (1989) and a B.Ed. (1982) from the University of British Columbia. I am also a graduate of the BCIT Diploma of Technology in Broadcast Journalism (1977).publicationsBullen, M. (2006, February). E-Learning and Distance Education in Higher Education: Organizational Implications. Invited Presentation to the Global Universities in Distance Education conference, Rome, Italy.Bullen, M. & Janes, D. (2006) (Eds.). Making the Transition to E-Learning: Issues and Strategies. Hershey, PA: The Idea Group. (in press) Bullen, M. (2006). When Worlds Collide: Project Management and the Collegial Culture. In B. L. Pasian & G. A. Woodill (Eds.) Plan to Learn: Case Studies in E-Learning Project Management. Toronto: CeLEA. (in press) Bourlova, T. & Bullen, M. (2005). The Impact of E-learning on the Use of Campus Instructional Space. In R.W. H. Lau, Q. Li, R. Cheung (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning – Proceedings of the ICWL 2005: 4th International Conference, Hong Kong (pp. 397-405). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Beuchot, A. & Bullen, M. (2005). Interaction and Interpersonality in Online Discussion Forums. Distance Education, 26(1), 65-85. Bullen, M. (2005, July). Preserving the Social Mandate of Distance Education. Invited Presentation to the Congreso Internacional UFF/CREAD 2005, Niterói, Brazil. Bullen, M. & Jamtsho, S. (2005). Teacher Education in Bhutan: Improving Access and Quality Through the Use of ICTs. In P. Goodyear, D.G. Sampson, D.J. Yang, Kinshuk, T. Okamato, R. Hartley & N. Shen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (pp. 1017-1020). Washington: IEEE. Bullen, M., Miller, J., Kupres, D. & Pasic, D. (2005, June). Collaborating Internationally to Make Croatia a Knowledge-based Society: Regional Implications for E-Learning in Southeastern Europe. In A. Szucs & I. Bo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2005 EDEN Conference, Helsinki (pp. 633-637). Budapest: EDEN. Bullen, M. (2005, April). Distance Education in Canada: Access and Quality. Invited Presentation to ANUIES 6th Reunion Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universidad Autónoma de Neuvo Léon, Monterrey, México. Bullen, M. (2003). Going Global with Online Graduate Distance Education. In B. Giebert & S. Hunter-Harvey (Eds.) Web-Wise Learning: Wisdom from the Field. Xlibris Corporation. Bullen, M. (2001). E-Learning and the Internationalization of Education. Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology, 1(1), 37-46. Bullen, M. (1998). Participation and Critical Thinking in Online University Distance Education. Journal of Distance Education, 13(2), 1-32. |