4227 NW 156th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32653
Email: wanderer@ufl.edu
Experience -- Publications -- Presentations
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Associations
Assistant Director for Learning Services 10
years of IT experience and successful management of personnel and
project management including strategic planning, evaluation, budgeting,
implementation, operation, maintenance, upgrades, training, support,
and continuous improvement of heavily-used, mission critical, enterprise-wide
IT systems used by more than 50,000 clients in support of the institutional
strategy and mission. Consistently engaged key constituent groups
and faculty representatives across campus to improve quality of central
services while supporting the unique needs of diverse units and programs.
Experienced project manager specializing in multi-unit collaboration
to bring enterprise-level systems successfully into production. Excellent
communication skills and proven ability to maintain positive relations
with key stakeholders, user groups, vendors, and other campus units.
Areas of expertise include:
Report to the Associate CIO (Academic Technology). This position continues my previous responsibilities while recognizing the increased demands of increased community engagement, expanded technical demands of new systems being deployed (WordPress, Digital Learning Commons), as well as additional responsibilities associated with the implementation of Sakai and the transition of support, maintenance, and courses to the new system as well as developing local models to leverage the opportunities and challenges of enterprise level open source software.
Report to the Associate CIO (Academic Technology); appointed to manage E-Learning Support Services, develop and coordinate enterprise system support, promote growth in online teaching and learning, and enhance central services hybrid, distance education and e-learning. Responsible for budgeting for new and ongoing services as well as addressing shrinking budget conditions. Built and lead a team spanning three separate units plus multiple additional distributed support units across campus to deploy and support the CMS through implementation, campus service consolidation, and two major upgrades. Responsible for developing policies and procedures for system administration and maintenance, use policies, data integrity and protection, system security, and all other aspects of system use. Managed rapid growth from a minor evaluation project to an enterprise-wide, mission critical system providing services for more than 50,000 students, 3,000 instructors, and 8,000 course accounts.
Reported to various principals and school board administrators. A popular and effective instructor responsible for developing curricula and teaching World History (International Baccalaureate and major program), Geography, and Keyboarding & Computer Skills. Served as team leader, department chair, and on school committees. One of the first instructors hired for the state-wide online high school project; developed and taught American Government and AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics as online courses.
Reported to the local District Superintendent and Florida Conference Bishop. Duties included all the normal ministerial tasks -- preaching, counseling, crisis intervention, sacraments and liturgical duties, Bible studies, administration, etc. for four churches (two appointments) in rural north Florida. As a minister I learned to listen as well as to gently guide parishioners in personal development. Developed advanced skills in leading voluntary associations of parishioners to articulate mission and vision leading in all cases to notable church growth.
Johnson, D., Means, T., Graff, R. “Key Findings from a Survey of Student Perceptions of the Course Management System at the University of Florida.” IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Learning Technology. IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter, Vol. 13, Issue 2, April 2011, pp. 23-27. Available at http://www.ieeetclt.org/issues/april2011/IEEE-LT-Apr11.pdf Johnson, D. and Wood, R. C. "State Blaine Amendments and Funding religiously Affiliated Schools: State Constitutional Clauses in Context." Illinois State Educaiotn, Law and Policy Journal, V. 30, No. 4 (July 2010) pp. 34-59. Johnson, D. Freedom of Religion:Locke v. Davey and State Blaine Amendments. (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2010). Johnson,
D. State Blaine Amendments: Origins, History, and Education Policy
implications Following Mitchell, Zelman, and Locke. Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Florida, 2008. Johnson, D. “The Ethics of Teaching in an Online Environment,” in Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching, David G. Brown, Editor (Anker Press, 2003). Johnson, D. “Toward A Philosophy of Online Education,” in Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching, David G. Brown, Editor (Anker Press, 2003). Johnson, D. “Communication Tools to Support Faculty Use of WebCT,” in Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching, David G. Brown, Editor (Anker Press, 2003). Johnson, D. “The Support of Large Classes Using a Course Management System: Policies, Procedures, and Lessons Learned.” The Technology Source (March/April, 2002). Available online at: http://technologysource.org/article/using_a_course_management_system_for_large_classes/
Johnson, D. and Higgins, C. Mobile Initiatives at Maryland and Florida: Addressing the Spectrum of Mobile Planning. Educause Annual Conference, October 2011. Philadelphia, PA. Johnson, D. Mobile Sakai for the World: A Proposal to the Community. EuroSakai Conference, 2011. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Johnson, D. Steering the Titanic: Moving a Large Research 1 University to Sakai. EuroSakai Conference, 2011. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Johnson, D. Disaster Planning Basics (With Zombies). Presentation to the Honors class IDH3931: "(Un)common Reading for the Undead. September, 2011. Gainesville, Florida. Johnson, D. Social Software and the Medical Professions. Continuing Education Training for the UF College of Medicine Office of Faculty Development.September, 2011. Gainesville, Florida. Johnson, D. Mobile Sakai: A Proposal to the Community and Invitation to Participate. Sakai Conference, 2011. Los Angeles. Johnson, D.The University of Florida’s Transition from Vista to Sakai – A 30,000 Foot Overview. Sakai Conference 2011, Los Angeles. Johnson, D. Student iPhone App. Development and Institutional IT: The Story So Far. Educause Learning Initiative Online Spring Focus Session. March 3, 2010. Johnson, D. Social Software and the Changing Nature of the Internet. Continuing education training for the UF College of Medicine Office of Faculty Development. November 2009. Johnson, D. Plagiarism Detection: Turnitin and Instructor Discretion. Presentation to the faculty of the University of Florida College of Nursing. October, 2009. Johnson, D. Social Software and the Changing Nature of the Internet. Continuing education training for the UF College of Medicine Office of Faculty Development. November 2009. Johnson, D., Cooling, M., Moffatt, I., Wicks, D. A Linux Administrator’s Roundtable. . Roundtable session at the Blackboard World Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 2008. Johnson, D., Cooling, M., Moffatt, I., Wicks, D. A Linux Administrator’s Roundtable. Roundtable session at the Blackboard World Conference. Boston, MA. July 2007. Johnson, D., Cooling, M., Moffatt, I., Wicks, D. A Linux Administrator’s Roundtable. Roundtable session at the Eighth Annual WebCT User Conference. Chicago, IL. July 2006. Johnson, D., Emko, D., Gross, C., Stoufer, M. Integrating a Home-Grown Student Registration System with Vista. Presentation to the Eighth Annual WebCT User Conference. Chicago, IL. July 2006. Johnson, D., Cooling, M., Emko, D., Ulmer, S. WebCT on Linux: An Administrators Roundtable. Roundtable Discussion. Eighth Annual WebCT User Conference. Chicago, IL. July 2006. Gross, C., Johnson, D., et al. Integrating Student Registration with WebCT VISTA. Roundtable Discussion. Seventh Annual WebCT User Conference. San Francisco, California. July 2005. Going Mobile: Preparing and Using Instructional Materials with Palm Handheld Computers. Pre-conference workshop: Sixth Annual WebCT User Conference. Orlando, Florida. July 2004. A Planning and Assessment Model for Developing Effective CMS Support. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual WebCT User Conference. San Diego, California. July 2003. Going Mobile: Preparing and Using Instructional Materials with Palm Handheld Computers. Pre-conference workshop: Fifth Annual WebCT User Conference. San Diego, California. July 2003. 59th Street Bridge. Keynote address: Nursing Informatics Training for Online Course Development, University of Florida College of Nursing. May, 2003. Developing Effective WebCT Administration Practices at the University of Florida. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual WebCT User Conference. Boston, MA. July 2002. The Support of Large Classes Using a Course Management System: Policies, Procedures, and Lessons Learned. HorizonLive online forum presented on 12 March 2002. Archive available at: http://208.185.32.221/launcher.cgi?channel=tsjohnson_2002_0312_1502_57 The Support of Large Classes at the University of Florida Using WebCT: Policies, Procedures, and Lessons Learned. Paper presented at the Third Annual WebCT User Conference. Vancouver, Canada. July 2001.
\October 2011 - Present. Content Management System Task Force. This work group was goven the task of evaluating options and recommending an enterprise level content management system for the University of Florida. This system is expected to serve the entire UF community: so the mandate for this committee encompassed assessing and evaluating academic, research, extension, and business use cases as well as IT needs for unified content management. September 2011 - Present. IT Services Catalog Task Force. This team was created by the CIO to develop and IT Services Catalog for te University. A services catalog has never before been developed at UF; so this involves researching effective examples, developing templates for local services, gathering input from all IT units, and developing a web framework, drawing on\going feedback from UF stakeholders, for making the catalog available to both internal and external constituencies. February 2011 - Present. Health Sciences Center Educational Technology Advisory Council. The HSC-ETAC replaced the HSC-ISC (see below) and provides advice and direction to HSC IT in the areas of both classroom and online technologies to support academics in face-to-face and distance education settings. ETAC is part of the HSC IT governance structire. I serve both as a member of this committee and as the liaison to main campus IT. December 2010 - Present. UF Mobile Implementation Team. The implementation team was crated to implement the recommendations fo the UF Mobile Task Force. UF Mobile was rolled out to the public in May 2011 and not only included traditional mobile services (bus schedules, malps, campus directory information, etc.) but also included campus authentication and mobile access to services such as a the course managment system (Sakai) as well as Registrar service including personal course calendars, course schedules, registration for classes, etc. September - November 2010. UF Mobile Task Force. This committee was created to research mobile technologies and processes and to make recommendations for making UF services available to mobile devices. The research of this committee included investigations of peer institutions as well as interviews and a campus-wide survey of faculty, staff, and students. The committee ultimately recommended initiation of a UF Mobile project, including strategic direction for development (web app rather than device-specific apps) as well as identifying institutional priorities that would be reinforced by a mobile project. The committee further recommended specific development directions and priorities based on the survey of potential users. September 2009 – Present. ITAC-AT, CMS Governace Subcommittee. One of the first governance committees created under the recent IT reorganiation, this committee has defined the scope of the Sakai transition project and, upon completion of that project, will serve as a medium for user community input and collaboration with the course management system project. September 2009 – Present. UF Pandemic Planning Task Force. This comittee was created to propose a plan to the Provost to maintain continuinty of instruction in the event of a campus closure resulting from pandemic flu -- H1N1 being the leading possibility. Our proposal was to use various technologies including the course management system and lecture capture systems installed in large lecture halls along with face-to-face and online training to support instructors in an emergency. This plan was approved and implemented by November 2009 [see http://www.at.ufl.edu/flu/]. September
2008 – April 2009. Course Management System Review Committee.
Originally intended to be a committee for a regularly scheduled two-year
review of the course management system, circumstances have changed
this committee to a review and adoption committee selecting the new
course management system to replace the current Blackboard Vista system
which has been deprecated by the vendor. January 2006 - present. UF Online Program Support Group. This committee is organized by LSS as a forum for policy-making related to the CMS, program personnel training for and feedback from campus staff supporting programs using the campus CMS. This group also focuses on sharing best-practices and is a community of practice for online program support staff. February 2005 – October 2005: WebCT Vista Implementation Review Committee. This committee was created to perform a biennial review of the “state of the CMS” to assess implementation and support against the goals of the original CMS adoption recommendation of 2003 and to provide recommendations for future directions for the CMS support team. June 2002 – August 2003: Chair, Course Management System Advisory Group. Organized and led the CMSAG in a ten-month process to assess available course management systems and to recommend to the Provost a single CMS to be centrally supported at UF. Responsibilities included organizing and chairing weekly meetings, preparing and distributing committee documents, facilitating communication and interaction with vendors, developing and sustaining high quality communication with various CMS user groups on campus as well as with the campus at large, designing and maintaining the CMSAG website, and authoring the final committee report. January 2002 - present. Health Sciences Center Instructional Services Committee. This committee advises the Health Sciences Center, comprised of the colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, on all matters related to technology and programs; with particular emphasis on distance education and instructional technologies. March 2003 – December 2006. Distance and Continuing Education Advisory Board. This committee provides advice and recommendations to DCE regarding all aspects of their distance education programs and practices. As the Manager of LSS, I report to this committee on the Vista course management system and provide support to achieve distance educational goals. Nov 2003 - May 2004. Vista Advisory Board. This committee is a vendor-sponsored group that provides feedback about product development and future development needs. Members serve a two-year term on a rotating basis.
February – Present. International Mobile Sakai Project. At the request of the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, I lead a multi-institution, international work group in drafting a proposal to the Sakai community to create a project to “mobilize” Sakai. I was then asked to present the proposal to the Sakai community at the Sakai 2011 International Conference which initiated the project team I am now organizing. The current project team spans three continents and five countries. January – June 2012. Sakai North America 2012 Program Committee. The program committee handled many aspects of planning the 2011 North American International Sakai Conference in Los Angeles. Responsibilities included creating conference tracks, preparing the Call for Proposals, reviewing and selecting proposals, and finalizing the schedule for conference activities. January – June 2011. Sakai 2011 Program Committee. The program committee handled many aspects of planning the 2011 North American International Sakai Conference in Los Angeles. Responsibilities included creating conference tracks, preparing the Call for Proposals, reviewing and selecting proposals, and finalizing the schedule for conference activities. October 2010 – Feb. 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2011 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011). Presentation and Paper Peer Reviewer. Read, editorial suggestions, and recommend presentation proposals as well as additional articles for publication in the Conference Proceedings. December 2009 - January 2010. Educause Southeast Program Committee. Proposal reviewer as part of the program committee for the upcoming Educause Southeast Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2-4. Oct. 2009. Presentation Proposal Reviewer, Educause Learning Initiative. Peer reviewer for presentation proposals in the areas of educational administration, management, and technology adoption/implementation for Educause South East Regional Conference. Nov 2003 - May 2004. Vista Advisory Board. This committee is a vendor-sponsored group that provides feedback about product development and future development needs. Members serve a two-year term on a rotating basis.
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