Dr. Marcus Childress

Professor and Department Chair

Education:

Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), 1995

M.M. Appalachian State University, 1988

B.M. Appalachian State University, 1983

Goals for scholarly activity:

• To explore new technologies and methodologies and their impact upon teaching, learning, and performance improvement.
• To disseminate the proper integration of new technologies, methodologies and applications into teaching, learning, performance improvement, and evaluation.
• To rectify misunderstandings about the field of instructional design and technology and the misapplication of technologies and educational beliefs.

Significant achievements:

2007 Teachers College Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity

Past-president – Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

Senior Trainer - Intel Teach to the Future

Recent publications:

Childress, M.D. & Braswell, B.R. (2006). Using massively multiplayer online role-playing games for online learning. Distance Education, 27(2), 187-196.

Eberle, J.H. & Childress, M.D. (Accepted, 2006). Heutagogy: It isn’t your mother’s pedagogy, any more. National Social Science Journal, 27(2).

Eberle, J.H. & Childress, M.D. (2006). Universal design for culturally diverse online learning. In Edmundson, A. (Ed.). Globalized e-Learning Cultural Challenges. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

Howell, D., Howell, D. & Childress, M.D. (2006). Using Powerpoint in the Classroom, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.