Areas of Expertise

• Computer-supported collaborative learning
• Computer-mediated communication
• Transformative instructional design
• Professional and technical communication
• Web-Based Instruction
• Needs Assessment
• Research & Evaluation
• Adoption/Diffusion of Instructional Technology innovations

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, September 1998
Educational Leadership and Innovation
Curriculum, Learning and Technology
University of Colorado at Denver

Master of Education, May 1994
Instructional Technology
University of South Florida, Tampa FL

Master of Science, June 1969
Physics
Northeastern University, Boston MA

Master of Arts in Teaching, June 1962
Emphasis in Secondary School Physics
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA

Bachelor of Arts, June 1961
Physics
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Professional Experience

September 2007 - Present

• Facilitator: World Gardens as an Art Form
• Co-Facilitator: Particle Physics for Non-Physicists
• Facilitator Assistant: The Power of Maps

January 1999 - Present

• Instructor: Leadership and Practice in ILT
  
• Instructor: Student Instructional Technology Corps
  
• Doctoral Committee Member: External Reader

February 1995 - October 2005

• Co-Director of evaluations for The WEB Project, The Electronic Learning Marketplace (ELM) Project, GENASYS PT3 Catalyst Grant, El Paso Challenge '98 TICG Grant, and Western State College Teacher Quality Improvement (TQE) Grant.
  
• Qualitative research team leader for national evaluation of 1999 PT3 Implementation Grantees.
  
• Director of evaluations for the Virtual Assistive Technology University (VATU); Teacher Education Network (TEN) and Great Cities Universities (GCU) PT3 Catalyst Grants; Project TALENT and Project p2/t3 PT3 Implementation Grants; Flow of History and History Harvest Teaching American History Grants.
  
• Member of evaluation team for The Boulder Valley Internet Project, The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project, the OVAE Connecting Disconnected Youth Project, the Colorado Consortium on Data Driven Decisions (C2D3), and the Texas Homeland Security Learn and Serve Project.
  
• Needs assessment: Caddo Parish, LA.
  
• Web Site Design/implementation/maintenance: Teachers' Internet Use Guide.
• Wrote numerous proposals for evaluation of federal, state, and foundation-funded grants.

July - September 1994

1992-1994

1991 - 1992

1990 - 1991

1977 - 1990

• Responsible for Accounts Payable/Receivable.
  
• Supervised contracts.
  
• Taught classes and seminars.
  
• Researched, wrote, and edited journal articles for the director, a retired Boston University professor.
  

1962 - 1977

• Designed simulations and computer-based analysis programs.
  
• Wrote/edited/reviewed documents for the Radar Systems Design department.
  
• Served on the Federal Advisory Council on False Identification.
  

Publications

Books

Johnson, R.E. (1995). A Model Computer: Algorithms for Machine and Assembly Programming. Minneapolis: West Publishing Company.
Designed, edited, and published a user's manual for a model computer simulation developed by Richard Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Bay Community College. (162 pages.)

Barron, A.E., Hoffman, D., Ivers, K., & Sherry, L. (1994). Telecommunications: Ideas, Activities, Resources. Tampa: University of South Florida, The Florida Center for Instructional Technology. (74 pages.)

Book Chapters

Sherry, L., & Billig, S.H. (2008). Instructional conversations: Designing dialogue to deepen learning. In R. Luppicini (Ed.), Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications, pp. 144-160. Information Science Reference, Hershey PA.

Sherry, L. (2004). Diffusing e-learning: Myths, questions, and experiences. In G. Kearsley (Ed.), Online learning: Personal reflections on the transformation of education, pp. 370-397. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Sherry, L., Havelock, B., & Gibson, D. (2004). The Personal Learning Planner: An online environment for mentoring, collaboration, and publication. In T. Roberts (Ed.), Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education, pp. 201-217. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Wilson, B., Sherry, L., Dobrovolny, J., Batty, M., & Ryder, M. (2002). Adoption of learning technologies in schools and universities. In H. H. Adelsberger, B. Collis, & J. M. Pawlowski (Eds.), Handbook on information technologies for education & training, pp. 293-307. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Sherry, L. (2001). Internet and World Wide Web usage in an institution of higher learning. In C.D. Maddux & D.L. Johnson (Eds.), The Web in Higher Education, pp. 91-105. New York: The Haworth Press.

Hoffman, D.; Sherry, L.; Lurie, J.; & McDaniel, J. (2001). The Teachers' Internet Use Guide: Web-Based Training for Educators. In B. Khan (Ed.), Web-Based Training, pp. 485-490. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Sherry, L., & Wilson, B. (1997). Transformative Communication as a Stimulus to Web Innovations. In B. Khan (Ed.), Web-based Instruction, pp. 67-73. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Other Periodicals

Please see My Publications.

Honors and Awards

• Who's Who in America (2002 - present)
• Who's Who of American Women (2002 - present)
• Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities (1997 - present)
• Who's Who in Instructional Technology [Publication] (1998 - present)
• ECT Foundation 1999 Dean and Sybil McClusky Research Award (AECT, 2000)
• Who's Who in Instructional Technology [U. Pretoria Web site] (1999-present)
• Outstanding Doctoral Student in Curriculum, Learning, and Technology (UCD, 1998)
• Honoraria for scholarly publications (RMC Research Corporation, 1996-2005)
• Nominated for the Elizabeth Powell Award (1996)
  Sixteen articles were nominated from all refereed journals on educational technology over the past year.
• Colorado Graduate Fellowship (CU-Denver, 1995)
• Kappa Delta Pi (University of South Florida, 1993)
• Phi Kappa Phi (University of South Florida, 1993)
• Phi Theta Kappa (Polk Community College, 1990)

Research Reports, Evaluations, and Papers at Professional Meetings

Please see My Publications.

Other Educational and Volunteer Opportunities

• Colorado Master Gardener: Colorado State University, Adams County Extension
• NorthPark East Landscape Committee: Member
• The Colorado Academy for Lifelong Learning: Member

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