Kathleen Ives, The Sloan Consortium Kathleen S. Ives, D.M. has worked in online technology for over 20 years and serves as The Sloan Consortium's Director, Online Education. Formerly, Dr. Ives oversaw all forms of alternative instruction at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA (distance learning, accelerated programming). She teaches online for University of Phoenix and Axia College of Western University, and in an accelerated environment for working adults at both Regis College in Weston, MA and the University of Phoenix, Greater Boston Campus. Dr. Ives began her career at CBS and helped to develop the service that evolved into Prodigy. She then spent fourteen years designing and implementing consumer online information services, first at AT&T and then at Verizon where she spearheaded the development of the nation's first online Yellow Pages product, now called superpages.com. Dr. Ives sits on the Massachusetts Department of Education's Distance Learning Advisory Board for Adult Basic Education. Dr. Ives has degrees in communication, communication management, and organizational leadership from the University of California at Davis, the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, and the University of Phoenix-Online, respectively.

Shari McCurdy, University of Illinois smccu1@uis.edu Shari McCurdy is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and an adjunct faculty member of the Educational Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has created, developed and teaches fully online graduate courses in educational technology. McCurdy directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning. She has presented at numerous technology conferences on topics ranging from best practices in online learning to plagiarism in the electronic classroom.