Outside Reviewer Letters

...... ....View letter	David Jonassen - Distinguished professor of Instructional Systems in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and is the director of the Center for the Study of Problem Solving. His research interests are designing constructivist learning environments, cognitive tools (Mindtools) for learning, cognitive modeling and task analysis, systems dynamics/systems modeling, and problem solving. He is one of the most internationally recognized researchers in learning technologies, with 29 published books (22 as the principal author), more than 156 published articles and 42 book chapters. His recent awards include 2001 Presidential Service Award, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Theory, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004. University of Missouri - Columbia 221C Townsend Hall  Columbia, MO 65211 (573) 882-2832..Jonassen@missouri.edu..homepage .
...... ....View letter	Marshall Scott Poole- Professor at the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois - Urbana. Professor Poole's research focuses on two aspects of communication and information technologies. He is interested in how people interact with communication and information technologies. Professor Poole also studies how people interact through communication and information technologies. He is currently involved in studies of virtual teams, learning in telemedicine networks, collaboration technologies, and how groups appropriate and use group support systems. Poole was recently awarded $213,000 by the National Science Foundation’s Decision Risk and Management Sciences program to support his continued work on a group decision support system, a computerized means of assisting groups to make decisions. University of Illinois 233 Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 333-5571..mspoole@uiuc.edu..homepage .
...... ....View letter	Charlotte N. Gunawardena - Professor of Distance Education and Instructional Technology in the Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology (OLIT) program in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas in 1988. Her focus is on distance education and cross-cultural communication. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in the field of distance education and given over 100 national and international professional presentations. She has been Principal Investigator and Project Director for national research grants, the most recent was a Star Schools evaluation and research grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education and Oklahoma State University to examine web-based, online teacher professional development programs in science and math that use hypothesis-based learning and guided inquiry. She has won several awards, including the University of New Mexico’s General Library Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding work as a College of Education faculty member, the University of New Mexico Regents’ Lecturership, the Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Excellence in Book-length Manuscripts in the Field of Distance Education, and a Fulbright scholar regional research award to research socio-cultural factors influencing the building of online communities in Morocco and Sri Lanka during the 2004-2005 academic year. The University of New Mexico Hokona Hall 266 College of Education  Albuquerque, NM 87131-1231  (505) 277-5046..lani@unm.edu .