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Niki Davis Professor, Director CTLT http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=4381&4381_0=5190 nedavis@iastate.edu N108 Lagomarcino Hall Phone: 515-294-5596
Niki Davis is Director of the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching, having joined ISU in January 2000 and teaches in the CI department. Niki received a personal chair in Educational Telematics (information and communication technologies) in October 1995 from the University of Exeter, in England. She currently holds a part time chair in London University's Institute of Education. Niki taught in secondary and further education. Prior to becoming a teacher, she was managing director of a small exporting business in Europe. She now resides in Ames, Iowa in 19 acres of trees.
Niki is a past President of the Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) and continues to provide leadership in this and other organizations that support teacher education. She has also led within the International Federation of Information Processing working groups for education. She has published widely and edited the international scholarly journal of Technology, Pedagogy and Education and chapters with UNESCO books in this area. During the 12 years in Exeter she led many prestigious research projects that researched communications technologies for teacher education across Europe.

Research Interests:
Dr. Davis' research interests stem for society current adoption of new technologies and the related need to incorporate effective use of information and communication technologies in education, through modeling of good practice in teacher education. She is interested in communication technologies for teacher education and training, the use of communication technologies for disseminating research, and professional and organizational issues in distance learning with technology.This includes several dimensions:

- Research to promote systemic change for educational organizations and those who teach in ways that enhance intercultural understanding

- Research into the preparation of teachers for flexible and distance learning supported by communication technologies, including pre-service teachers.

Courses:
CI 511: Technology diffusion leadership and change

CI 512: Research trends in technology and education (C&IT capstone course)

CI 407 and CI 507: Principles and practices of flexible and distance learning

ILET Fall Online Reading Group: Intercultural Educational Technology (with ILET project collaborators)

ISU Major Professor and committee member for Masters and PhD students

IoE London research supervision and occasional lectures

Current Projects:
Teacher Education Goes into Virtual School (TEGIVS): 2004-2007, $581,849 funded by US Department of Education (FIPSE) comprehensive program and partners.

International Leadership for Educational Technology (ILET): A transatlantic bridge for doctoral studies. 2001-2005, $3 00,000, funded by US Federal Department of Education (FIPSE) and European Commission (DEAG) EC-US program for vocational education and training. (with Andrew Brown for EC leadership through IoE, University of London).

eDoc electronic portfolios (eDoc): University-wide project: 2003-2006, $212,818, funded through ISU student computer fees in collaboration with IT services and CELT and the UPortal international consortium.

U.S. Department of Education: $10,000, design Study for national evaluation of EETT initiative.

Favorite Quote:

Information and communication technologies are inherently social because they are inextricably bound up with the vast number of choices and interactions enacted through an interwoven web of co-evolving people, institutions, cultures, and technology. Technologies are also social in that they define, but they do not determine how people do things. (Dutton, 2004, p. 122)

Education:

BSc. (Hons.) (Edinburgh), Ph.D. (Belfast)