South Dakota

Florida State University

Telemedicine

Technology Distance Education Projects

Le Cordon Bleu

DaVinci Project

Academic Planning

South Dakota Alliance for Distance Education

Michael R. Simonson, Ph.D.

Michael Simonson, Ph. D., has authored four major textbooks dealing with instructional technology, instructional computing, instructional media, and distance education. He has over 50 scholarly publications, in excess of 100 professional presentations, as well as having written successful grants totaling over $4 million. He has considerable experience working with businesses and corporations in their technology planning and utilization, including the U. S. Navy's Surface Warfare Officers School, the US West Foundation, the W. W. Kellogg Foundation, and the US Department of Education. He is editor of the Quarterly Review of Distance Education and is founder and editor for 21 years of the Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Papers Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. In 1997, he was awarded the "Most Significant Advancement in Research in the field of Distance Learning", presented by the United States Distance Learning Association.