User:Sarcami/Wallace Hannum

Personal life/biography
Wallace Hannum is Associate Director for Technology of the National Research Center on Rural Education Support; is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently works in the School of Medicine part-time on a cancer research project involving distance education. In addition to his academic work, he regularly consults with organizations to help them improve their workplace learning programs. Hannum specializes in instructional design and technology and the planning of large-scale educational and training programs. Hannum was one of the developers of the original Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model for the military services. Dr. Hannum teaches graduate level courses on the use of technology in education, learning theories and instructional design.

Dr. Hannum grew up in Luverne, a very small town in south-central Alabama where his mother's family had lived for several generations. His grandfather, a former mayor of Luverne, with his brothers ran a hardware store on the main street. He attended elementary school and high school in Birmingham. His favorite subjects at school were mathematics and science. Dr. Hannum was the oldest of four boys in his family and spent many of his growing up days riding bicycles and playing baseball when not in school. He played both baseball and football on his high school teams and was involved in school politics.

Dr. Hannnum is the very proud father of three adult children- two daughters and a son and two grandchildren - a grandson and granddaughter.

Education and academic career
After graduating from high school Dr. Hannum worked for almost a year then headed to Auburn University where his grandfather, Joshua Eyre Hannum, had been dean of engineering and both his parents had attended. Due to his interest and ability in math and science and his grandfather's career in engineering, as a freshman he majored in engineering. In his sophomore year he switched his major to psychology. While an undergraduate Dr. Hannum began working part time in the counseling center on different research projects. In order to analyze the data from these projects, he learned to program computers and thus began a lifelong interest in using technology. After completing his undergraduate degree he continued into the master's program in clinical psychology. Along the way he realized that he was much more interested in how people learned and developed and so switched into education. After completing a master's degree, he worked in the central office of a school system for almost two years trying to change how children were educated by using more modern ideas about learning theory coupled with technology. This was to become his life's work. Dr. Hannum went to Florida State University to complete his Ph.D. the same year that Robert Gagne joined the faculty there. He became his first Ph.D. student at Florida State University and while there worked half time in a research center that investigated computer applications to instruction.

Dr. Hannum began his academic career as a faculty member at Florida State University where he taught in the area of educational psychology and instructional design with a special interest in human learning and technology. He was on the faculty of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina from 1979-2008, where he taught courses in educational psychology, especially learning theory, instructional design and technology applications. As an associate professor from 2008, Dr. Hannum remains keenly interested in applying technology to instruction. In the past several years this has taken him into teaching online as well as studying distance learning. He continues this line of work on projects in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Hannum recently worked on a national project conducting research on using distance education to improve rural schools. He is currently working on distance education projects in the School of Medicine and has used technology in his courses, frequently teaching courses online. Dr. Hannum has written several books and numerous articles related to his academic interests. He has been a consultant to many national and international corporations and agencies. While the specifics of each consulting assignment differ widely, there is a common element - the emphasis on applying the best knowledge from research and theory to educate and train people in such a way that they are able to improve their capabilities to perform successfully in their work and beyond.

Research
Dr. Hannum’s research focuses on instructional uses of technology, especially distance education. He created a statewide online program for professional development of teachers and routinely uses a variety of technology in his teaching. Dr. Hannum has consulted on the use of technology for professional development with many organizations, both public and private. He has participated in the design and implementation of numerous technology-based programs and projects. He has created standards and guidelines for technology use as well as taught numerous workshops to enable organizations to make effective use of technology for instructional purposes.

Dr. Hannum is engaged with the School of Medicine on a project in Radiation Oncology to develop computer-based teaching modules. These will teach radiation therapists how to determine radiation treatments for cancer patients. He also working on a long-term research project in the School of Dentistry studying how to best provide orthodontic education to residents and practicing orthodontists worldwide through distance education methods. His current research interests include examining distance learning in many contexts including rural schools. Working with others Dr. Hannum has completed a survey of distance learning using a national sample of rural school districts to understand how they are using distance learning, what technology they use, the barriers they see, and their perception of success. His research group has also conducted a large-scale randomized controlled study of the effects of using learner-centered principles in online classes. Dr. Hannum is actively involved in publications about technology and distance education. He is on the editorial boards of three journals and review articles for other journals. He also reviews book proposals for several publishers.

Publications and/or books
Published Books

Jonassen, D.H., Tessmer, M., and Hannum, W.H., (1999). Task Analysis Methods for Instructional Design. New York: Erlbaum.

Hannum, W.H. (1990). The Application of Emerging Training Technology. Alexandria, VA: American Society for Training and Development.

Hannum, W.H., and Hansen, C.D. (1989). Instructional Systems Development In Large Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications. Jonassen, D.H., Hannum, W.H., and Tessmer, M. (1989). Handbook of Task Analysis Procedures. New York: Praeger.

Lillie, D., Hannum, W. and Stuck, G. (1989). Computers and Effective Instruction: Computers and Software in the Classroom. New York: Longman.

de la Varre, Claire, Keane, Julie, Hannum, W.H., Irvin, Matthew and Hannum Wallace (2009). Social Support for Online Learning (2009). In Whitworth, Brian & de Moor, Aldo. Handbook of Research in Socio-Technical Design and Social Netowrking Systems. IGI Global.

Hannum, W.H. (2008). Distance Learning. In Robert Diamond (Ed.) Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical Guide (3rd Ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.