Instructor Information
Anne McKinney
Visiting Coordinator of Instructional Design (WISE)
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street, MC-493
Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA
(217) 244-2932
Biography:
As the Visiting Coordinator of Instructional Design for WISE Pedagogy, my goal is to help instructors learn effective practices for teaching online. I currently teach Introduction to Online Pedagogy, which is an open-source, ongoing workshop based in pbworks with an ongoing discussion board forum. This has been an exciting new venue for teaching online pedagogy -- in the recent past I have also taught the WISE introductory workshop as a two- or three-week course in Moodle. The wiki-based setting makes this workshop accessible to anyone in the world, at any time of day or year. Instructors, doctoral students, and academic professionals can participate whenever it fits their schedule, without the necessity of a university registration procedure. Additional mini-workshops on teaching technologies will be available later this summer.
Other WISE Pedagogy initiatives include the WISE Pedagogy Blog and our annual face-to-face workshop at the January conferences for ALISE (The Association for Library & Information Sciece Education).
I began working with the WISE Consortium in March 2007 and have taught Introduction to Online Pedagogy since July 2007. I had my first introduction to online teaching pedagogy in 2003, and taught Professional and Technical Writing courses for the University of Illinois at Springfield, both online and face-to-face, from Fall 2005 to Spring 2007. I have also taught courses in composition, writing about literature, and creative historical fiction. I have an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Springfield (2004) and a BA in English from Truman State University (1999), with some post-graduate coursework in online teaching through the Illinois Online Network and Sloan-C.
