Screen Name: Don Krug
Email: don.krug@ubc.ca
Age: 49
Overview: Virtual Ecology
Biography: My professional research interests have slowly changed over the years and while I continue to conduct research in the area of the arts and education my focus for the past ten years has been on perceptions, practices, and policies of educational technologies with an emphasis on teacher education and professional (development) education. I am now researching the administrative, assessment, communicative, curricular, pedagogical, and research dimensions associated with the use of ICT. I am curious about the changing dynamics and contextual conditions that influence how administrators, teachers, and students accept, oppose, and/or resist the use of ICT in face-to-face, hybrid, and online distance education learning environments. Currently I am working on the following research projects with UBC graduate students and through provincial partnersips. "BC Portfolio Requirements: ICT and the Power of the Arts," "The Seeds of Possibility: Integrating ICT into the Teacher Education Two-year Elementary Program," and "Investigating Pedagogy and Rich Media Development in Face-to-Face, Hybrid, and Online Distance Education Learning Environments."
