Jolie V. Kennedy, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Educational Technology and Learning Design at SUNY Empire State University. She is an award-winning researcher and educator who is recognized for her work in online teaching, learning, and designing. She has received grants and published her work in leading journals, books, and conference proceedings. With over 400 citations, she is an early career scholar and influential contributor to educational technology discourse. She has served as reviewer for books, journals, and conferences.
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Teaching
SUNY Empire State University, School for Graduate Studies
Educational Technology & Learning Design Program
- EDET 6010 Media Literacies in Emerging Technologies
- EDET 6015 Instructional Design in Online Learning Environments
- EDET 6025 Assessing Learning in Digital Environments
- EDET 6035 Advanced Instructional Design with Multimedia
- EDET 6080 Evaluation, Assessment, and Data-driven Learning Design
University of Minnesota, Learning Technologies Program
- Foundations of Instructional Design
- Designing and Developing Online Distance Learning
- Online Learning Communities
- Foundations of Distance Education
- Planning for Multimedia Design and Development
- Introduction to Learning Technologies
- Teaching and Learning with the Internet
- Foundations of Computer Applications for Business & Education
- Technology and Ethics in Society
- Dangers and Affordances of the Internet for Learning
Degrees
Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Learning Technologies from the University of Minnesota
M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University
B.A. in Psychology from Queens College, City University of New York
Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Selected Presentations and Publications
Kennedy, J., & Sun, R. H. (2024, March). Inviting AI as a Collaborator: New perspectives for TPACK. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 788-792). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Kennedy, J. V., & Arendale, D. R. (2023). Investigating Metacognitive Strategies and Exam Performance: A Cross-Sectional Survey Research Study. Education Sciences, 13(11), 1132.
Kennedy, J. & Michelfelder, D. (2022). Envisioning online learning spaces as spaces of radical openness. In the Book of Abstracts of Conference on the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kennedy, J. (2022). Designing inclusive online learning environments through the lenses of feminist technoscience and postphenomenology. In Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technologies. New York, NY: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Kennedy, J. (2022). Three Dons for learning experience design: Perspectives from Ihde, Schön, and Norman. In Proceedings of EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technologies. New York, NY: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Kennedy, J. (2020). Designing for the learning experience online. Invited talk presented at the Agriculture Education Networking Group.
Vagle, M., Abdi, N., Alexander, Q., Kennedy, J., & O’Loughlin, A.K. (2020). What might post-intentional phenomenology become through the post-humanist, post-qualitative turn? Presentation accepted at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. *Conference cancelled due to C-19.
Kennedy, J. (2019). Seven traits of personal learning environments for designing quality online learning programs: A systems view of connectedness. In E. Smidt and R. Li (Eds.), Ensuring Quality and Integrity in Online Learning Programs. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Kennedy, J., Pazurek, A., Valentine, K. & Vagle, M. (2019). Inspiring studies of lived experiences with technologies: The growth of phenomenology from descriptive to postmodern. Presented at the 2019 Association of Educational Communication and Technology International Convention (AECT), Las Vegas, NV.
Kennedy, J. (2018). Towards a model of connectedness in personal learning networks, Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 16(1), 21-40.
Kennedy, J. (2017). Bursting toward writing-as-thinking and fluid methodology: Enacting nomadic thinking in post-intentional phenomenology. Presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, Texas.
Kennedy, J. V. (2016). Being, belonging, and becoming in immersive complexity: A post-intentional phenomenological analysis of connectedness in doctoral students’ personal learning networks (Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota).
Kennedy, J. (2015). Reflection: Using TPCK as a scaffold to self-assess the novice online teaching experience. Distance Education, 36(1), 148-154.
Kennedy, J. (2015). Beyond beliefs: Examining online self-efficacy and learner engagement in distance education. Presented at the AACE 2015 EdMedia: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Montreal, Canada.
Kennedy, J. (2014). Characteristics of massive open online courses (MOOCs): A research review, 2009-2012. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 13(1).
Kennedy, J., Fandrey, A., Hunt, A., & LimBybliw, A. (2013). Using Google+ Hangout for online group collaboration and presentations. In EduLearn13 Proceedings (pp. 2234-2242). IATED.
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Professional Instructional Design Projects
Duke Energy (ACT Consulting), Charlotte, NC
Project: Enable Maximo Software Implementation
Project: Energy Data Management System
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Project: Online Course Design
UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, MN
Project: Optum Innovation Blended Sales Training
Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA
Project: Online Leadership Training
New Century Mortgage Corporation, Irvine, CA
Project: Empower Loan Origination System Implementation
Honors & Awards
Excellence in Teaching, University of Minnesota, Center for Educational Innovation
Partnership for Affordable Content Grant, University of Minnesota, Libraries eLearning Support Initiative
Qualitative Inquiry Award, Association of Educational Communication Technology
Professional Service: Leadership, Advisory, & Review
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
- Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT)
- Distance Education Journal
- Educational Technology Research and Development (ETRD)
- Educause Horizon Report
- International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL)
- International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
- Journal of Computing in Higher Education (JCHE)
- Lexington Books
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
- Routledge Books