Patricia McGee

Patricia McGee is a faculty member in the Instructional Technology program in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Two successive summers as American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) US Navy Research Faculty with the Joint ADL Co-Lab in Orlando, Florida provided a foundation for her work as a 2003 NLII Fellow researching and writing about learning objects and next generation course management systems. As director of a PT3 and Microsoft/AACTE Innovative Teaching grant, she contributes to campus-wide technology initiatives. She develops, teaches, and studies online courses. Currently she is leading an open source ePortfolio project, as well as conducting research about pedagogy within course management system and institutional learning object development and policy-making. Patricia earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Instructional Technology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Publications

Fostering Interaction and Social Presence through eCollaboration
Fostering Interaction and Social Presence through eCollaboration
Patricia McGee, Jooyoung Voeller. © 2015. 31 pages.
eCollaboration is an instructional strategy used in online courses in which two or more students work collaboratively at a distance to achieve a pre-determined instructional...
Blended Course Design: Where's the Pedagogy?
Blended Course Design: Where's the Pedagogy?
Patricia McGee. © 2015. 25 pages.
Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery...
Blended Course Design: Where's the Pedagogy?
Blended Course Design: Where's the Pedagogy?
Patricia McGee. © 2014. 23 pages.
Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery...
Project Realities: Shifting Course Delivery Method
Project Realities: Shifting Course Delivery Method
Patricia McGee, Michael Anderson. © 2013. 20 pages.
Meeting the demands of students who expect convenience, affordability, and a quality education has required that institutions of higher learning find ways to offer programs in...
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD)
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD)
Chia-Wen Tsai, Pei-Di Shen. Est. 2011.
The International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD) serves as a forum for the improvement of online education for schools and teachers planning to implement...
Shifting from Classroom to Online Delivery
Shifting from Classroom to Online Delivery
Patricia McGee, Veronica Diaz. © 2009. 21 pages.
The rapid proliferation of e-learning tools that offer low or no cost investment and are not housed on institutional servers, has made it very attractive for faculty to move...
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model
Veronica Diaz, Patricia McGee. © 2008. 22 pages.
This chapter analyzes the emergence of learning objects as a dynamic and interactive relationship between technology and the organization. We examine the way that organizational...
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model.
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model.
Veronica Diaz, Patricia McGee. © 2008. 22 pages.
This chapter analyzes the emergence of learning objects as a dynamic and interactive relationship between technology and the organization. We examine the way that organizational...
Community Through Constructive Learning
Community Through Constructive Learning
Patricia McGee, Misty Sailors, Lucretia Fraga. © 2006. 13 pages.
This case study illustrates a community-based constructive learning approach to ePortfolio development, and the subsequent phenomena and outcomes that came from the initial...
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model
Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model
Veronica Diaz, Patricia McGee. © 2006. 35 pages.
This chapter analyzes the emergence of learning objects as a dynamic and interactive relationship between technology and the organization. We examine the way that organizational...
Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy
Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy
Patricia McGee, Colleen Carmean, Ali Jafari. © 2005. 399 pages.
Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy is a comprehensive overview of standards, practices and possibilities of course management systems in higher...
Over the Rainbow: Waking up in Tomorrow's OZ
Over the Rainbow: Waking up in Tomorrow's OZ
Patricia McGee, Vicki Suter, Jennifer Gurrie. © 2005. 24 pages.
Next generation course management systems must represent a convergence of the needs and perspectives of all of those who are engaged in the teaching and learning experience. To...