Barbara Lockee

Barbara B. Lockee is the Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Instructional Design and Technology in the School of Education] at Virginia Tech. She is known for her work on instructional design and technology-mediated learning.

Education and career
Lockee was born in Tennessee and then grew up in North Carolina. She learned to program computers at a young age, starting with a Commodore 64, and a high school English teacher encouraged her to consider a career in journalism. Lockee received her BA (1986) and MA (1991) from Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1996. Lockee joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 2001, and was promoted to full professor in 2007.

Lockee was the president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

Work
Her research interests focus on instructional design and technology-mediated learning. In her 2019 co-authored book, Streamline ID: A practical guide to instructional design, Lockee addressed both the needs of novices as well as experienced instructional designers and presents an enhanced version of the classic ADDIE model. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lockee and colleagues noted that emergency online learning and remote teaching present different challenges.

Awards and honors
In 2022 Lockee received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. She was also honored by Appalachian State University with membership in the Rhododendron Society, the highest honor bestowed by the university.