Ronald Danielson
B.A.
Mathematics, (summa cum laude), University of Minnesota, Duluth
M.S. Mathematics, Northwestern University
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
More detailed C.V.
Office: Orradre Library 129 (in the Reference
Room)
What Ron spends his time on:
Administration
I have been
Chief Information Officer since July, 2000. In that role, I lead the
Information Services organization in providing academic and administrative
computing, networking and telecommunication, web, instructional technology, and
library services. Information Services is composed of three groups: Information Technology,
Media Services, and Orradre Library.
The most strategically significant activity for Information Services is planning (and soon, we hope, building) a new Library for the 21st Century. The new Library symbolizes the blending of traditional components of a humanistic education with the new opportunities provided by information technology. The library will be an intellectual hub on campus, a destination spot for students, faculty and staff, where they can access information resources, get assistance in using those resources, and enjoy work spaces that meet the needs of both private study/research and group collaboration. It will also bring together in one physical location the various components of IS. We have just completed an Automated Retrieval System, which will become an integral part of the new Library when it is built. The ARS provides extremely dense storage for up to 900,000 volumes of lesser-used materials from the Library holdings.
Other major
initiatives in IS include expanding access to administrative information
through
Research
Interests
in: the impact of
information technologies on organizations, Web-based educational tools,
human-computer interaction
Recent papers:
Thinking
Styles of North American IT Executives,
Proceedings of the Third Annual Global Information Technology Management World
Conference, New York, June 23 – 25, 2002
A CEOs-Eye View
of the IT Function, Business Horizons, Vol. 41, No. 1,
January-February 1998, pp. 65-74
Java-based Instructional Materials for Introductory Logic Design Courses, Proceedings of 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 18 – 20, 2000
Curriculum Evolution: Integration of Web-based Resources, Tutorial Software, and Commercial Design Tools, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Ostrava-Prague, Czech Republic, August 10 – 14, 1999
Stimulating
Introductory Engineering Courses with Java, Frontiers in Education 98,
November 4 - 7, 1998
Web-Based
Enrichment Courseware for Introductory Engineering Students, IASTED
International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, May
27 - 30, 1998
Work in
Progress: Learning Styles, Media Preferences, and Adaptive Education,
Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web, UM97,
June 2 - 5, 1997
Adaptive
Interaction through WWW, ED-TELECOM 96, June 17 - 22, 1996
Classes
I haven’t
taught since Fall 2000. The courses that I had taught most recently before that
included
Coen 001,
Understanding Digital Technologies
Coen
171, Programming Languages
Coen
396, Human-Computer Interaction
What Ron should spend more time on
E-mail: rdanielson@scu.edu