Anthony G. Picciano holds multiple faculty appointments at the City University of New York's Hunter College, Graduate Center; and the School of Professional Studies. He has also held administrative appointments at the City University and State University of New York including that of Vice President and Deputy to the President at Hunter College. He assisted in the establishment of the CUNY PhD Program in Urban Education and served as its Executive Officer for ten years (2007-2018). Dr. Picciano's research interests include education leadership, education policy, online and blended learning, multimedia instructional models, and research methods. He has authored seventeen books and numerous articles including Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology which currently is in its fifth edition (Pearson Education). His latest book is, Picciano, A.G., Dziuban, C., Graham, C. & Moskal, P. (in press). Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 3. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Publishers. He has been involved in major grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was a member of a research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education - Institute for Education Sciences, the purpose of which was to conduct a meta-analysis on "what works" in postsecondary online education (2017-2019). In 1998, Dr. Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a multi-million dollar initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provides support services to faculty using the Internet for course development. He was a founding member and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium). His blog started in 2009 has averaged over 600,000 visitors per year. Dr. Picciano has received wide recognition for his scholarship and research including being named the 2010 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Consortium's (now the Online Learning Consortium) National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Online Education by an Individual. Visit his website at: anthonypicciano.com Elaine Bowden has forty-five years of experience working as an administrator in higher education.
