She received the M.S. in Library Science
in 1990 and, in 1995, a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Design from The
Florida State University.
Returning to UGA where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Learning and Performance Support
Lab (1995-96), she was on the faculty of the University
of Northern Colorado and Georgia
State University. She has participated in diverse design projects, including
a training project as a faculty fellow at NASA,
Johnson Space Center. She has attended summer study programs at the Rhine Institute
at Duke University, and was
selected to attend the HERS
Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration in 2003.
Her current research focuses on enhancing and extending what we do with and know
about Web/Internet-based learning environments. She specifically focuses on community
building in virtual environments, resource-based learning, and information retrieval
in open-ended systems.
Her teaching interests include instructional design,
research in instructional technology,
technology
integration, computers
in education, and
Internet-based learning environments. She is also an IT Studio faculty member,
and teaches sessions in the IDT
Certificate Program. (note: courses being taught this term are linked).
Janette
R. Hill Associate Professor