Role Models in Educational Technology on Ada Lovelace Day

Suw Charman-Anderson is the catalyst behind Ada Lovelace Day, “an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.”

Suw described Lovelace as someone who understood that computers could do a lot more than crunch numbers.

I think our little corner of the blogosphere – the edusphere – has a fair amount of women who understand that “learning technology” encompasses a much broader definition of both learning and technology. I’ve blogged about women edubloggers a total of six times (list below) each time finding new and interesting voices to follow and learn from.

Here are some notable women in the field. Some are thought leaders and pioneers in the field. Some are front-line practitioners. Some are just starting out in the field and others have more than 30 years behind them. Some were recommended to me (special thanks to Clark Quinn), some have become friends of mine over the past few years blogging, and some have just influenced me at some point. Wow, what a list!

Allison Rossett, Professor of Educational Technology, San Diego State University

Glenda Morgan, Director of Technology and Learning Initiative, George Mason University

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Owner/Founder, 21st Century Collaborative, LLC

Kristin Hokanson, Award-Winning Teacher and Technology Integration Coach

Anne Fox, Teacher and Project Developer

danah boyd, researcher

Marlene Scardamalia, Presidents’ Chair in Education and Knowledge Technologies at OISE/University of Toronto and directs IKIT, the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology

Lauren Resnick, Director of the Learning Research and Development Center

Ruth Clark, Author, specialist in instructional design and technical training

Shirley Alexander, Professor, University of Technology, Sydney

Tiffany Koszalka, Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation

Sandra Wills, Professor, Educational Development, University of Wollongong

Betty Collis, Emeritus Professor, Consultant

Kathleen Wilson, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

Aimee Dorr, Dean, Graduate School of Education, UCLA

Nancy White, Founder at Full Circle Associates, Consultant

Janet Salmons, Faculty, Capella University, Owner at Vision2Lead, Inc.

Nan Thornton, Faculty Chair, Instructional Design for Online Learning, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

Jane Hart, Owner, Centre at for Learning & Performance Technologies

Ellen Wagner, Director at Macromedia and Owner, Learnativity Alliance

Christine Martell, artist, trainer and facilitation on visualization

Anoush Margaryan, Lecturer in Learning Technology and Shell Research Fellow at the Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, in the UK, Author

Beth Kanter, trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media

Julie Lindsay, Head of Information Technology and E-Learning at Qatar Academy, Doha, State of Qatar

Rupa Rajagopalan
Information Developer at SAP Labs, blogger

Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine, Adjunct Professor at Tufts University

Sarah Stewart, project manager, researcher, educator and midwife

Chris Collins, a.k.a. Fleep, IT Analyst in UCit Instructional & Research Computing at the University of Cincinnati

Margaret Driscoll, Managing Consultant, IBM

Rose Luckin, Professor, London Knowledge Lab

Joanne Jacobs, Author and Blogger

Gloria Geri, Consultant

Linda Harasim, Professor, SFU

Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professors, NJIT

Diana Laurillard, Professor, London Knowledge Lab

Beverly Woolf, Research scientist, computer science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Pam Hook a.k.a. Artichoke, Consultant, Blogger

Cathy Moore, E-Learning consultant, Blogger

Michelle Martin, Blogger, Consultant

Kathy Sierra, Author, blogger, Developer

Jane McGonigal, Game Designer and Researcher

Leisa Reichelt, Freelance contextual research and user-centred design

Susan Smith Nash, E-Learning consultant, author, blogger

Frances Bell, Senior lecturer at the University of Salford, UK

Helen Keegan, Research Fellow/Lecturer in the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford, UK

Judy O’Connell, Editorial Board, School Libraries Worldwide, the official professional and research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship

Inge de Waard, consultant, teacher, facilitator or expert

Ellyssa Kroski, emerging tech information consultant / librarian / writer / speaker / instructor

Lynn V. Marentette, School psychologist, consultant, grad student, blogger

Kathy Schrock, Administrator for Technology, Nauset Public Schools, USA

Anne Bartlett Brown, Headshift Australia ,Managing Director

Cammy Bean, eLearning instructional designer

Jenna Sweeney, Instructional Design Consultant, blogger

Lilia Efimova, Blogger, Researcher at Telematica Instituut

Michelle Gallen, E-learning consultant and creative instructional design specialist, blogger

Alex Miller
North Coast Institute, TAFE NSW, blogger

Sue Waters, Editor of The Edublogger

Sarah Robbins, Author, SLED Blog, researcher, academic, ,writer, speaker, marketer, mom, and geek (aren’t we all?)

Valerie Shute, Associate Professor, Florida State University

Sharon Derry, Professor of Educational Psychology at UW-Madison

Jan Herrington, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia

Judy Kay, Professor, Australian Research Fellow

Patti Shank, President, Learning Peaks

Joan Vinall-Cox, Teacher, Social Media consultant, and trainer, academic

Josie Fraser, Lead Community Architect, Emerge at JISC, Social & Educational Technologist, Social and Learning Technologist at Childnet International

Claire Schooley, Sr. Analyst, Forrester Research

Christy Tucker, Instructional Designer

Jane Bozarth, author, classroom instructor and motivational speaker, e-learning blogger

Alja Suljic, Consultant in the fields of online communities, social media and virtual worlds.

Wendy Wickham, Instructional Technology, blogger

Karyn Romeis, Independent L&D Consultant, Learning Anorak Ltd

Jennifer Jones, author, blogger, instructional design, e-learning, emerging technologies

Nellie Deutsch, Doctoral student

Ann McCormick, Founder, the Learning Company

Barbara White, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Annemarie Palincscar, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Education; Jean and Charles Walgreen Professor of Reading and Literacy, Ph.D., University of Illinois

Yvonna Lincoln, Distinguished Professor

Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University, USA

Lauren Resnick, educational psychologist

Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology

Joyce Hakansson, Educational Technology and Accessibility Consultant

Barbara Grabowski
Professor of Instructional Systems at Penn State University

Kristina Schneider
Performance Technology & Instructional Systems Specialist + Project & Operations Management, blogger

Anya Wood, eLearning Education Manager at University Health Network
Location, Toronto, Canada Area

Linda Roberts, former director U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology

Kristina Woolsey, New Media Consortium, Author, Speaker

Beverly Hunter Co-PI for the VISIT Teacher Enhancement Project

Barbara Ganley, Founder, Digital Explorations

Allison Anderson
Manager, Learning Innovation & Technology at Intel Corporation

Jacqueline Beck
VP Educational Development at Brookwood, PA, USA

Barbara Flagg, Multimedia Research

Margaret Riel, Senior researcher at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International

Leona Schauble, Professor of Education, Columbia University

Angela Thomas
Senior lecturer in English and Arts Education

Vicki Davis, Teacher, Technology Administrator at Westwood Schools, Presenter, Consultant, Freelance Writer, Founder at Bright Ideas, Inc.

Marcia Conner, Managing Director of Ageless Learner, writer

Cynthia Russell, Professor in the Department of Acute and Critical Care, College of Nursing at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN, blogger

Heather Ross, Instructional Designer, blogger

Cathy Nelson, School library media specialist, blogger

Liz B. Davis, Director of Academic Technology at Belmont Hill School, Mass., USA, blogger

Faith LeGendre, Sr. Global Consultant at Cisco WebEx

Heidi Fisk, Principal, eLearning Guild

Here’s to you, Ada.

(It is inevitable that you don’t see a name here that you think should appear. Let me know!)

UPDATES

Margaret Cox, Professor, King’s College London (recommended by Richard Millwood

Emma King, Consultant

Maria Anderson, College Math Teacher and Consultant, blogger

Sreya Dutta, blogger, Senior Curriculum Developer at Oracle

Dr. Hope Seidman, Supervisor, Research and Development, National Centre of Expertise in Communities of Practice, Canada School of Public Service, Government of Canada

Bev Mitelman, M.A., Manager, Centre of Expertise in Communities of Practice, Canada School of Public Service)

Recommended by Jeff Bohrer:

Kathy Christoph, Director, Academic Technology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ruth Sabean, Assistant Director for Educational Technology, Office of Instructional Development University of California at Los Angeles

Lois Brooks, Director, Academic Computing, Stanford University

Diana Oblinger, President and CEO, EDUCAUSE

Alexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York

Prior posts featuring women edubloggers:

Women’s Voices in the Edublogosphere
Part 2: More women’s voices in the edublogosphere
Part 3: Still more women’s voices in the edublogosphere
More Women Edubloggers
And still more women in the edublogosphere
Recap: Women in the edublogosphere 2007

If you’ve stumbled upon this post and are about to post a comment that downplays women’s accomplishments, contains rude sexual comments, attacks feminism, or that adds no value, move along. It’s not happening.