Jennifer B. Myers

Jennifer B. Myers is the ASSIST Project Director and an instructional designer and consultant at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College in South Carolina. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University in the Instructional Systems program under the College of Education. Previously, Myers worked as a middle school teacher in North Carolina and earned her Master’s degree in Instructional Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has designed and developed a number of instructional courses and materials for a variety of organizations and audiences in the K-12, higher education, and non-profit sectors and has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in addition to her experiences teaching in K-12. She has presented her research at various professional conferences. Additionally, she is working on her dissertation examining self-regulated learning within an informal online community of practice. More broadly, her research interests surround informal learning, professional development, mentoring, self-regulated learning, social learning, knowledge brokering, and online communities of practice.

Publications

Virtual Professional Development and Informal Learning via Social Networks
Virtual Professional Development and Informal Learning via Social Networks
Vanessa P. Dennen, Jennifer B. Myers. © 2012. 364 pages.
People are increasingly engaged in profession-related learning via social networks supported by Web 2.0 tools. Some of these informal online learners are already actively engaged...
Researching Community in Distributed Environments: Approaches for Studying Cross-Blog Interactions
Researching Community in Distributed Environments: Approaches for Studying Cross-Blog Interactions
Vanessa Paz Dennen, Jennifer B. Myers, Christie L. Suggs. © 2011. 21 pages.
In this chapter we examine how a variety of research approaches can be applied to the study of cross-blog interactions. Cross-blog interactions can be challenging to study...