Bernie Dodge
San Diego State University
United States of America - San Diego
Professor Emeritus of Learning Design and Technology at San Diego State University. Interested in educational game design, active learning, and making productive use of new technologies as they arrive.
Presentations
- What Does 25 years of WebQuest Research Tell Us?
- QuestGarden: A Tool for Teaching WebQuest Design
- Architectures for Mobile Learning
- Aiming for Inquiry: A Deep and Wide View of Exemplary Strategies for Preparing Teachers to Teach for Inquiry
- Aiming for Inquiry: A Deep and Wide View of Exemplary Strategies for Preparing Teachers to Teach for Inquiry
- QuestGarden: A Tool for Teaching WebQuest Design
- QuestGarden.com - An Online WebQuest Authoring Tool and Hosting Service
- Mini-Courses for Teaching with Technology: Thinking Outside the 3-Credit Box
- WebQuest Design and Application Strategies, II
- Motivational Aspects of WebQuest Design
Biography
After a degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a two-year stint in Sierra Leone as a Peace Corps volunteer, I earned my doctorate in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation from Syracuse University. From there I lucked into the perfect job, joining the scrappy small department of Educational Technology at San Diego State. That job kept my full attention for 40 years and allowed me the freedom to invent more than a dozen courses. I've lived through my behaviorist phase, the Apple II Basic years, a love affair with HyperCard, total immersion in web and backend development, and a flirtation with virtual reality. Throughout it all, I've been drawn to thinking about ways to engage my students (and their students) in active participation and deep thinking. Coming up with the WebQuest model was a matter of having a good idea while things were still forming, and I continue to promote and refine the idea. Currently I'm taking a look at how educational games are designed with the goal of making them better than they currently are. Off topic, I'm also interested in photography, astronomy, amateur radio, and teaching myself Python.