Brenda Bannan

PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor

Contact Information

Send email to bbannan@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-2067
Fax: (703)993-2722

George Mason University, Fairfax Campus
Commerce II 109
4400 University Dr.
MS 5D6
Fairfax, VA 22030

Profile

Brenda Bannan is an Associate Professor in the Instructional Technology program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Her research interests primarily involve the definition and delineation of methods related to the integration of design and research processes in educational technology design and development. She has authored several articles and chapters on design research in the /Handbook for Design Research Methods in Education/ (Eds. Kelly, Lesh & Baek, 2008) as well as the /Educational Researcher/, (vol 32, 2003). During her 15-year career, Dr. Bannan has been published in multiple national and international educational technology journals as well as has been invited as a keynote speaker for conferences in China, Canada and the U.S. Dr. Bannan was awarded an NSF CAREER grant award during 2003-2008 to conduct a five-year cycle of design research promoting observational geological inquiry at the upper elementary level. She has had the distinct honor to be invited as a visiting scholar at Stanford University for the academic year of 2005-2006 working with faculty from the Design School (d.school) effort. Dr. Bannan has supervised numerous learning technology design and development projects and is currently working on a new Doctoral program at GMU focusing on design process, design research and diffusion of innovations.

Research Interests

  • Design-based research
  • Design and development of eLearning or online learning environments
  • Innovative methods of teaching instructional design and development

Recent Publications

  • Bannan-Ritland, B., (2003). The role of design in research: The integrative learning design framework. Educational Researcher, vol. 32(1), pp. 21-24.
  • Bannan-Ritland, B. (2002). Computer-mediated communication (CMC), e-learning and interactivity: A review of the research. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, vol. 3(2), pp. 161-179.
  • Bannan-Ritland, B. (2001). An action learning framework for teaching instructional design. Performance Improvement Quarterly 14(2), 37-51.
  • Bannan-Ritland, B. (2001). Literacy Access Online: The development of an online support environment for literacy facilitators working with children with disabilities. Tech Trends, vol. 45(2).
  • Bannan-Ritland, B., Dabbagh, N., & Murphy, K. (2001). Learning object systems as constructivist learning environments: Related assumptions, theories and applications. In D. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. Association of Educational Communications and Technology.
  • Bannan-Ritland, B., Egerton, E., Page, J., & Behrmann, M. (2000). Literacy Explorer: A performance support tool for novice reading facilitators. Performance Improvement, vol. 39(July), pp. 47-54.

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Affiliations

Program

  • Instructional Technology (primary)
  • Mathematics and Science Education Leadership (secondary)
  • Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disabilities

Organizational

  • Association of Educational Communications and Technology
  • American Society for Training and Development
  • International Visual Literacy Association