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About
Kurt Rowley, Ph.D.,
Senior Consultant
Dr. Rowley is an instructional designer
and researcher with a background in information
technology and educational research. Dr. Rowley has worked as an IT consultant, built up
a small software business, and spent
several years as an adjunct college instructor teaching computer programming and
business courses. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional
Systems from Florida State University (1995).
Dr. Rowley worked for three years as a research associate of the
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Brooks AFB, Texas, where he designed and tested a computer-based tutoring system to teach writing
skills. The tutoring system produced significant performance
gains among high school students, and has been used by the Department of
Labor's Job Corps to help student prepare for the GED exam. The
system was marketed to schools for several years by Carnegie Learning
Corporation and Apangea Learning (Pittsburgh, PA).
After his work for the Air Force, Dr.
Rowley was the lead instructional designer
for Defense Acquisition University (DAU) for the development of a
blended online-onsite Intermediate Systems Acquisition
Course (Ft. Belvoir, Virginia). The course utilized an innovative 'story-based'
instructional strategy and became an example of blended e-learning in a
large, high-stakes course (see an article
about the course). Over 40,000 military acquisition
professionals have successfully completed this certification course, as
of 2008.
After completing his work on the ISAC
course for DAU, Dr. Rowley won two Small
Business Innovation Research awards from the Office of Naval Research,
totaling $850,000. The
study identified effective methods for helping novice instructional
designers. The project produced a software product
that supports design teams through the use of job aids, worksheets,
advice, instructional modules, a design database, and a rapid prototype
and evaluation system for emerging designs.
Currently Dr. Rowley works as a free lance
designer on several projects including the definition
of a Bachelor's
degree program for instructional design, a math novel for
secondary schooling, and a crime prevention course for school
administrators.
Here
is a list
of Dr. Rowley's publications and presentations. A
resume is available on request.
Additional Staff
A list of additional available staff
members is available as needed.
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