Dr. Keith D. Bailey is the Director of the e-Learning Institute and an Affiliate Faculty member of Integrative Arts. As the Director of the Institute, his primary responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day operations within the Institute as well as manage the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of e-Learning courseware for the College of Arts and Architecture.

Keith has been involved in the field of workforce training, instructional technology, and distance education for over ten years. In his various roles in the field, he has managed as well as designed and developed numerous online, CD-ROM based, and face-to-face courses. One of his areas of interest is the investigation of ways to enhance learning through the integration of instructional technology-based solutions.

Dr. Bailey earned his doctoral degree in Workforce Education Training and Development at The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Education. He obtained his masters degree in Instructional Technology from Bloomsburg University.

Bill joined the e-Learning Institute as the Senior Instructional Designer/Project Manager in November, 2005. In this role, Bill oversees the Institute’s instructional design methodology, designs a portion of the new courses being developed by the Institute, and manages several of the Institute’s projects at any given time. As the Senior ID, he works closely with the Director, the team, and the faculty to facilitate the production of quality online courses in a timely manner. Just prior to joining the e-Learning Institute, Bill worked in the IST Solutions Institute as an Instructional Designer, developing courses for Online IST, as well as for external firms such as Lockheed Martin. Bill received his M.S. degree in Instructional Technology in 1991 from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His graduate studies grounded him in learning theory, instructional design process, effective courseware creation, and team-based software development. His first position was that of Multimedia Developer for a company that created computer-based training for the corporate sector. Bill then came to Penn State in 1994, joining the Department of Independent Learning as an Instructional Designer. Since then, he has been a member of several instructional design and development units around the University and has gained considerable experience in a range of e-Learning approaches.

Selected accomplishments include:

Completed courses:

Courses in production:

Designed and developed computer-based instructional courseware for the MBA and Executive MBA programs in the Smeal College of Business

Core member of the design team creating the Noise Control Engineering Certificate Program for the World Campus

Designed some of the first interactive multimedia courseware offered via Penn State Independent Learning

Megan Marut is an Instructional Designer for the e-Learning Institute in the College of Arts and Architecture. Her principle responsibilities within the Institute include project management and providing assistance to faculty for the analysis and design of courses.

Megan has worked as an Instructional Designer on numerous team-based projects. These projects include the redesign of instructional materials with Robyn A. Defelice Consulting, contributing to the design and development of an interactive training solution for Merck Pharmaceuticals, and the analysis and redesign of the nurse’s medication distribution training program for Albright Healthcare. Her longest contract position was with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, in which she assisted in an effectiveness evaluation of the Caseworkers’ Training Program.

Megan’s background and appreciation of the performance arts allows her to approach the courses she works on with alacrity. Megan has studied pantomime, acting, storytelling, puppetry, voice and dance. Working with professional organizations The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and Box of Light Theatre, she has performed throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

Megan graduated from Bloomsburg University with a Bachelors of Liberal Arts double majoring in Theatre Arts and Communication Studies, and a Masters of Science in Instructional Technology.

Bryan Ollendyke is the e-Learning Institute’s Instructional Information Technology Specialist. He is solely responsible for supporting all of the institute’s courses, maintaining the associated course activation codes, and managing the primary course delivery application known as the E-Learning Management System (ELMS).

Bryan began working as an entry level programmer for IST’s Solution’s Institute (SI) in the summer of 2005. He contributed his knowledge and skills to two major Drupal based modules; an instant messenger tracking system and a Five-star Assessment module. Bryan was also the lead programmer for a web-Derby interface integration project, initiated under the direction of Dr. Keith Bailey. When Dr. Bailey became the director of the e-Learning Institute, Bryan was the first employee onboard to continue work on the web-derby project.

Bryan was approached with the potential creation of a Drupal based project for the upcoming launch of the Institute’s first course, Art 010. Those discussions led to the development of what is now known as the Assignment Studio. Bryan was the lead programmer on the project and has been focusing on Drupal based projects ever since.

Bryan officially joined the e-Learning Institute as a full time employee in June 2007 and began pushing for open source development.  In April 2008 all products that he produces for ELMS can be released to the Drupal community for their own usage.  Open development has only helped improve the quality of the products produced by Bryan and the e-Learning Institute has began to make a name for itself in the Drupal educational community.  In Summer 2008 Bryan began building a stronger Drupal in Education community by publishing several more modules, starting the e-Learning Institute Drupal Project Blog, and begining work on a Drupal in Education Handbook.

Bryan graduated in May 2006 with his BS from the College of Information Sciences & Technology. He is currently taking classes toward a Masters of IST.

Working for the Director for the e-Learning Institute as a part-time employee, Virginia Belser has recently joined the e-Learning Institute as the e-Learning Program Manager. Her primary responsibility will be to help the College and the e-Learning Institute fulfill one of its primary goals by helping expose and promote the College's e-learning initiatives.

More specifically she will be responsible for:

1. Managing the creation of an international conference focused on e-Learning for the Arts and Design. This event is going to be a collaborative event with the University of Arts, London.

2. Working with faculty and assisting in the development, identification and oversight of online programs within the College as well as managing the logistics of delivering College e-learning courses through the World Campus and the e-Learning Cooperative.

3. Creating faculty development programs, including a faculty innovators series and a faculty academy program, which would help bring together faculty from the A&A and other campuses.

Most recently from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) Virginia had the opportunity to implement outreach programs for the College as well as manage all aspects of the Pennsylvania College's Governor's School for Information Sciences and Technology. In addition to her experiences at IST, she gained instructional design expertise as she completed her Master's degree in Educational Media from Radford University followed by working at Juniata College as the Assistant Director for Teaching/Learning with Technology. While Virginia has a wealth of experience in the program management area, she also has an arts perspective as she received her BFA in Painting from the University of Connecticut and is a current member of the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society.

Ronda Markley is the Staff Assistant for the eLearning Institute and the Department of Integrative Arts. She is responsible for the daily administrative activities in the office and is the human resource contact.

Ronda started at Penn State in August 1982 in the College of Business Administration as a temporary clerk typist in the Office of Student records and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies.

In 1983 she was hired full time for that position until 1984. From 1984-86 she was a secretary for the Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology working in the undergraduate office.

1986-1994 – Department Head secretary in Landscape Architecture providing administrative support to the department head and 14 faculty.

1994-1999 – Department Head secretary for the Department of Integrative Arts providing the sole administrative support to the Department Head and 3 faculty serving 153 undergraduate students and 6 graduate students.

1999-2004 – Staff Assistant, School of Visual Arts, providing support to undergraduate students.

2004-present – Staff Assistant to the Department Head of Integrative Arts and the Director eLearning Institute.Provides support for eLearning staff and is budget manager for both areas.