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Dr. Lynn Keane has won the Delta Pi Epsilon Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Dr. Peter Cardon received the Best Paper Award at the 48th Annual International Association for Computer Information Systems conference in Savannah, GA.

Lynn Keane, Technology Support and Training Management, received the Paul S. Lomax Award for Doctoral Scholarship and Service from the Dept of Administration, Leadership and Technology at NYU.

John Gerdes, Technology Support and Training Management, was appointed to the academic advisory board of Techsmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio, a program for developing education and training software.

PUBLICATIONS

Crews, T. B., & Stitt-Gohdes, W. L. (March 2012). Incorporating Facebook and Twitter in a servicelearning project in business communication course. Business Communication Quarterly, 75(1), 76-69.

Jordan, A. K. & Crews, T. B. (2012). Investigating Your Career. Third Edition. South-Western Cengage Learning. Mason, OH. ISBN-13: 978-1-111-57550-2.

Wilkinson, K., & Crews, T. B. (2011). Assessment in online environments. In L. G. Snyder (Ed.), National Business Education Association Yearbook, No. 49: Online Business Education (pp. 111-123). Reston, VA: NBEA.

Wilkinson, K., & Crews, T. B. (2011). Business report writing: Students' perceptions of their ability to succeed in an online environment vs. students' performance in an online course.
Online Courses and ICT in Education. (Tomei, L.A.., Ed.). Hershey, PA.

Brookshire, R. G., Crews, T. B., & Brown, H. F. (2011). Influences on student performance in a university networks and telecommunications course. Online Courses and ICT in Education. (Tomei, L.A.., Ed.). Hershey, PA.

Brookshire, R. G., Lybarger, K. M. & Keane, L. B. (2011). Virtual workplace learning: Promises met?" In Margaret Malloch, Len Cairns, Karen Evans, and Bridget N. O'Connor, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning, London: SAGE Publications, pp. 331-341.

Crews, T. B., Wilkinson, K. & Wang, X.. (2010) Chinese students' beliefs regarding their ability to participate in online courses. Journal for Global Business Education (10): 11-26.

Crews T. B., & Curtis, D. F. (2010). Online course evaluations: Faculty perspective and strategies for improved response rates. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-14.

Gerdes, J. H., & Crews, T. B., (2010, Spring). Developing Course Profiles to Match Course Characteristics with Student Learning Styles. NACADA Journal 30,1, 23-33.

Stringam, B. B., and Gerdes, J. H., (2010). Are Pictures Worth a Thousand Words? Success Factors for Hotel Web Site Design. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, 1, 30-49.

Friedman, D. B., Crews, T. B., Caicedo, J. M., Besley, J. C., Weinberg, J., & Freeman, M. L. (2010). "An exploration into inquiry-based learning by a multidisciplinary group of higher education faculty." Higher Education, 56(6), 765-783.

Tena B. Crews, Johanna Bodenhamer, and Tina Weaver, “Understanding True Colors Personality Trait Spectrums of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management Students to Enhance Classroom Instruction,” Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism 10(1) (2010), 22-41.

Tena B. Crews, Jessica L. Miller, and Christine M. Brown, “Assessing Faculty’s Technology Needs,” Educause Quarterly 32,4 (2009). For paper, click here.

Wilkinson, K. & Crews, T. B. (2009). Business report writing students’ perceptions of their ability to succeed in an online environment vs. students’ performance in an online course. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education 5(4), 68-77.

Crews, T. B. and Wilkinson, K. (2009).  Making assessment real by incorporating visual, auditory, and e-handwritten feedback. Online Classroom (August 2009), 5-8.

Crews, T. B. and Stitt-Ghodes, W. L. (2009). Banking and financial institutions. In Wilhelm, W. J. and Truell, A. D. (Eds.), National Business Education Association Yearbook: No. 47, Economics and Personal Finance Education (pp. 170-186).  Reston, VA: National Business Education Association

Gerdes, Jr., J. (2009). User interface migration of Microsoft Windows applications, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 21(3), 171-187.

Gerdes Jr., J. H., Kalvenes, J., and Huang, C. (2009). Multi-dimensional credentialing using veiled certificates: Protecting privacy in the face of regulatory reporting requirements. Computers & Security 28,5, 248-259.

Crews, T. B. , (ed). (2009) Creative Teaching Ideas. Reston, VA: National Business Education Association.

Crews, T. B., Wilkinson, K., Hemby, K. V., McCannon, M., and Wiedmaier, C. (2008). Workload Management Strategies for Online Educators. Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 50,2, 132-149.

Crews, T. B. (2010). Fundamentals of Insurance. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

Patterson, M., Crews, T. B., Bodenhamer, J., Carmichael, A., & Stewart, T. (2009). Inquiry-based learning in the business education classroom. Business Education Forum 63 (February 2009), 43-46.

Cardon, P. W. (2009).  A model of face practices in Chinese business culture: Implications for western businesspersons. Thunderbird International Business Review 51(1), 19-36.

Brookshire, R. G., Crews, T. B., and Brown III, H. F. (2009) Student success in a university introductory networks and telecommunications course: Contributing factors, International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education 5(1), 53-61.

Cardon, P. W., and Marshall, B. (2008). National culture and technology acceptance: The impact of uncertainty avoidance. Issues in Information Systems, 9(2), 103-110.

Marshall, B., Cardon, P. W., Norris, D. T., Goreva, N., and D'Souza, R. (2008). Social networking websites in India and the United States: A cross-national comparison of online privacy and communication. Issues in Information Systems, 9(2), 87-94.

Crews, T. B. and North, A. B. (2008). Service learning for global business education. Journal of Business and Training Education 17 (Fall 2008), 16-24.

Gerdes Jr., J., Stringam, B. B., and Brookshire, R. G. (2008).  An integrative approach to assess qualitative and quantitative consumer feedback.   Electronic Commerce Research 8:4, 217-234.

Gerdes, J. Jr. & Stringam, B. B. (2008). Addressing Researchers’ Quest for Hospitality Data: Mechanism for Collecting Data from Web Resources.   Tourism Analysis, 13(2), 309-315.>

Cardon, P. W. (2008). A critique of Hall’s contexting model: A meta-analysis of the intercultural business and technical communication literature. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22(4), 399-428.

Crews, T. B. &  Stitt-Ghodes, W. L. (2008). Managing the traditional and technology classroom.  In M. Rader (Ed.) National Business Education Yearbook: No. 46. Effective Methods of Teaching Business Education (pp. 67-79). Reston, VA: National Business Education Association.

Fjermestad, J., Passerinin, K, Bartolacci, M. R., and Patten, K. (2008) ‘Wireless Connectivity and Its Relationship to Emerging Economies: the Example of China,’ International Journal of Mobile Communications (6:5), pp. 633-645.

Cardon, P. W. (2008). A critique of Hall’s contexting model: A meta-analysis of the intercultural business and technical communication literature. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22(4), 399-428.

Cardon, P. W. (2008). Frontline employee communication. Business Communication Quarterly, 71(2), 232-233.

Cardon, P. W. (2008). Horizontal and vertical individualist and collectivist tendencies among Chinese and American management students. Journal for Global Business Education, 8, 1-18.

Cardon, P. W., & Scott, J. C. (2007). Loss of face among Chinese businesspeople in intracultural and intercultural business interactions. The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 49(2), 19-39.

Passerini, K., Patten, K., Bartolacci, M. R., & Fjermestad, J. (2007). Reflections and trends in the expansion of cellular wireless services in the U.S. and China. Communications of the ACM 50 (October 2007),25-28..

Cardon, P. W. (2007). Online sales messages. Business Communication Quarterly, 70(4), 476-477.

Ko, E., & Cardon, P. W. (2007). Marketing research in Korea. Special joint issue of Journal of Business Research and Journal of the Korean Academy of Marketing Science.

Gale, E., Crews, T. B., and North, A. B. (2007). "Service learning: A business communication course tool." Journal of Applied Research in Business Instruction, 5(2), 1-6.

Crews, T. B. (2007). "How professional organizations can help meet the professional development needs of middle school business and technology educators." The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 49(2), 140-146.

PRESENTATIONS

Brookshire, R., (2008). The Center for Enterprise Systems Management. Presented at the Pre-ICIS Workshop for the Special Interest Group - Organization Systems Research Association (SIG-OSRA), Paris, France, December 13, 2008.

Brookshire, R. G., Kemp, K., Thomas, D. M. and Dillon, T. W. (2008). High School Computer Camps: An Early "In the Pipeline" Step to Meet the Demand for Diverse Information Technology Workers. ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference, Charlottesville, VA, April 3-5, 2008

Brown, H. F., and Crews, T. B. (February 2008). An innovative synchronous learning space. Organizational Systems Research Association Conference, Columbia, SC

Cardon, P. W., and Callister, R. (2008, August 11). Etic and emic research on face in Chinese culture: Implications for Cross-cultural management research. 2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Anaheim, CA.

Cardon, P. W., and Marshall, B. A. (2008, October 4). National culture and technology acceptance: The impact of uncertainty avoidance. 48th Annual IACIS International Conference. Savannah, GA.

Cardon, P. W., Marshall, B., and Norris, D. (2008, March 27). Cross-national comparisons of communication practices among university students on social network sites. 8th ABC Asia Pacific Conference. Singapore.

Coppola, J., Feather-Gannon, S., Keane, L. B., Mosley, P., Norris, D., Patten, K., and Taylor, A. (2008). Integrating service learning into the OEIS curriculum: A multi-perspective outlook. Panel presentation at the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA) Conference, Columbia, SC, February 28-29, 2008.

Crews, T. B. (March 2008). Online course delivery. National Business Education Association (NBEA) Conference, San Antonio, TX

Crews, T. B., and Wilkinson, K. (March 2008). Teaching online: Collaborative teaching and assessment. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (SoTL). Myrtle Beach, SC

Crews, T. B., Wilkinson, K., and Kinley, E. (November 2008). E-Assessment: Providing verbal and visual feedback to online learners. Sloan-C Conference for Online Learning, Orlando, FL

Fjermestad, J., Romano, N. C., Jr., and Patten, K. P. (2008). A Personalization, Privacy and Security Exchange Model for E-Commerce, Presented at the Third Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP-3), Paris France, December 13, 2008.

Gerdes, J. H., (2008). Improving Student Advisement by considering student and course profiles, National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Annual Conference, Chicago, Il, October 4, 2008.

Keane, L. B., Norris, C., and Ainslie, K. (2008). Impact of Role Definitions on Groupwork in Business Communication Courses. Presented at the Association for Business Communication.

Keane, L. B.and Patten, K. P. (2008). A Joint Service Learning Project within the Technology Support and Training Management Program. Proceedings of Delta Pi Epsilon Annual Conference, Chicago IL, November 2008.

Keane, L. B., and Swafford, E. A. (2008). Creating training videos for software applications with Camtasia. Workshop presentation at the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA) Conference, Columbia, SC, February 28

Okoro, E., Cardon, P. W., and Marshall, B. (2008, October 30). Horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism among Nigerian and American university students. 73rd Association for Business Communication Annual Convention. Reno, NV.

Patten, K. P., and Fjermestad, J. (2008). An Ethnographic Study: How Chief Information Officers Manage Uncertainty and Unexpected Change Using Flexibility. Presented at the Pre-ICIS Workshop for the Special Interest Group - Organization Systems Research Association (SIG-OSRA),Paris France, December 13, 2008.

Wilkinson, K., Crews, T. B., and Kinley, E. (April 2008). Enriching the learning experience for e-learners: Making assessment real. The Higher Learning Commission Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Wilkinson, K., Hemby, K. V., and Crews, T. B. (November 2008). The excellent second life adventures of GinGin, Lynn, and Werber: How Second Life impacts business education. Delta Pi Epsilon (DPE) National Conference, Chicago, IL

Stitt-Gohdes, W. L., & Crews, T. B. (July 2007). Benefits of ISBE membership. International Society for Business Education (ISBE), Vienna, Austria.

Crews, T. B., Wilkinson, K., & Wiedmaier, C. (July 2007). Innovative technology uses: Value-added teaching, assessment and research. International Society for Business Education (ISBE), Vienna, Austria.

Crews, T. B., and Weaver, T. (June 2007). Student teaching internships: Using True Colors. International True Colors Association. Las Vegas, NV.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Cardon, P. W., Soldier and Family Satisfaction with Graduation Family day at Fort Jackson, U.S. Department of Defense

Patten, K. P. and Keane, L. B., A Joint Service Learning Project within the Technology Support and Training Management Program, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), University of South Carolina

Tena Crews, 04/07 Funded: Teaching Excellence Grant on Fundamentals of Inquiry. Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 03/07 Funded: Improving Student Advisement by Considering Student and Course Profiles, National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Co-investigator, John Gerdes, University of South Carolina.

Tena Crews, 03/07 Funded: Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation (ADDE) of Appropriate Online Training for the Chinese Community, International Research Grant, College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC