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T. Craig Montgomerie, Ph.D
Craig Montgomerie is a professor emeritus of Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, the president of Mentat Consulting Services Ltd. -- a firm of educational consultants, and an instructor at Athabasca University. He has been involved in the application of computer technology to education since the early 1970s, having worked in the use of computers in instruction since the early days of the IBM 1500 system. Craig’s interest in using computer networks to support distanced students began in the early 1980s with the development of an online support system for extended campus students. He co-developed the first Web-Based Instruction course at the University of Alberta: The Internet: Communicating, Accessing, and Providing Information with Dwayne Harapnuik which was subsequently selected as the “Best Educational Web Site - Single Course” by the North American Web Developers Association in 1996. Craig was a founding member of the Board of the Netera Alliance, whose core role is to design and implement the next-generation Internet in Alberta, and continued in that position until 2004.
From 2000 through 2004, Craig was the principal investigator on the Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project (http://www.racol.ualberta.ca). RACOL was a collaborative initiative to develop an advanced broadband asynchronous/synchronous distance education system. The essence of RACOL was the development of a model of teaching and learning that exploits the potential of broadband networks and advanced technological capabilities such as broadcast quality video, collaborative environments, and educational objects to create effective learning environments that addressed the needs of students in rural and remote school districts. RACOL was a collaboration between the Fort Vermilion School Division #52, the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the Banff Centre, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, the Netera Alliance, and Sonic Design Inc., with extensive funding having been provided by CANARIE, Inc., Alberta Infrastructure and the Western Canadian Economic Diversification Agency.
Craig is currently working with a group to evaluate the Canadian Space Agency / Alberta Education use of videoconference technology to provide distance education opportunities for Alberta schools, helping the towns of Three Hills and Hanna to realize the potential of the Alberta Supernet for all residents and is chair of Steering Committee for ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, for 2009-2011.
Further information is available at: http://www.education.ualberta.ca/staff/craig.montgomerie/
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