April Bellafiore
As Dean of eLearning, April directs the 100% online and distributed education program at Bristol Community College. She also oversees the Center for Technology Expertise (CITE), which provides technical support and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff members who wish to incorporate technology or distance learning into their teaching or workplace practices.
 

Karen Bellnier
Karen, Assistant Director of Online Education, College of Online Education, Johnson & Wales University (JWU), has been at JWU since 2008 when the university started a small office exploring online learning. The office and her role has grown over that time as the university has changed and the landscape of higher education has also evolved. Her focus has been on defining quality and effectiveness in online courses and on supporting faculty in creating and teaching those courses. Prior to higher education, she was involved with the museum field also focused around learning - including creating programs for school children and content design for museum exhibits - as well as a few years with the American Alliance of Museums as its Peer Reviewer Manager. Karen holds Master’s degrees in Educational Technology Leadership (The George Washington University) and Developmental Psychology (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Karin Moyano Camihort
Karin currently serves as the Dean of Online Learning and Academic Initiatives at Holyoke Community College HCC. Previously, she worked at the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, UMASS-AMHERST (2008-2012), was the Educational Technologist at Springfield College (2005-2008), and the Information Technology Specialist at the Five Colleges, Inc. (1997-2005). Dr. Karin Moyano Camihort heads Online Learning by creating and establishing a unified vision for HCC Online. She leads the growth and scale of HCC's innovative and academically rigorous online learning initiatives. Dr. Moyano Camihort has led research and development efforts that take advantage of emerging technologies to enable programs, faculty, and students to transform teaching and learning. Her area of research includes the exploration of successful pedagogies for instructional technologies and educational innovation. I am currently a member of the Educause Top-Ten IT Issues Panel and the Breakthrough Models Academy.

Tricia Kiefer
Tricia Kiefer, Professor and Chair of Education at Holyoke Community College, has taught and developed blended and online courses since 2005. After attending the Online Learning Consortium Conference, she was inspired to  created a Moodle online advising course which has been adopted by many Departments at HCC.  Additional work with Online Programs includes developing and co-facilitating the Summer Online Teaching Academy (SOTA) at HCC.  SOTA is an opportunity for faculty teaching online to think about the instructional design and pedagogy of online teaching. Most recently Tricia work with a team to adapt a Quality Standards worksheet for online courses to be designated exemplary courses. This peer reviewed process provides a self reflective, engaging and collaborative process to receive feedback about online courses.

Tracy Mullen Cosker
Tracy is currently Associate Director, UNH Online, where she is responsible for strategic planning, operations and program development to ensure the growth and management of the University of New Hampshire’s online degree programs and student services. Since beginning her tenure with UNH, she has nurtured and introduced several new online programs and student support services – more than doubling UNH’s online offerings in student enrollment in her first 15 months. Tracy has worked in online education since 2002 and spent 13 years with American Public University System (APUS) – a leading global online university with more than 100,000 students and alumni.  As Associate Vice President for Business Development with APUS, she initiated several pilot programs, new business and research initiatives for the University. Tracy holds an MBA from George Mason University and was recently accepted to the Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning, an leadership and innovation program with Penn State and the Online Learning Consortium.

Yvette Raven
Yvette, Associate Dean of Online and Blended Learning, has been with Cape Cod Community College (CCCC) since 2015 when the office transitioned to supporting faculty course design and development. In this role, faculty have been introduced to a course design and development process that fast-tracks new courses that support fully online degree and certificate programs. Prior to arriving at CCCC, Yvette served as instructional designer for various colleges including Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ), Northampton Community College (PA), and Thomas Edison State University (NJ) where she provided leadership in the assessment of the MBA program during the accreditation process. Yvette began her career at Prentice Hall (now Pearson) as technical support, new media development of higher education textbook companion websites including the original MyMathLab.

Ning Zou
Ning is a Learning Design and Research Librarian at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She received her dual masters in Information Science – HCI and Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington, and MBA from Dominican University. She designs, creates, develops, and assesses LMS-integrated learning modules and just-in-time research tutorials in multiple formats that support and enrich students’ learning and research experience in a hybrid and online environment at HGSE. She also works closely with the staff at the Harvard Library User Research Center on university wide tutorial design and usability study projects. She served as a faculty and an Instruction Coordinator at Dominican University where she oversaw the library’s information literacy instruction program and taught freshman and sophomore core curriculum liberal arts seminars in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and graduate courses in the School of Information Studies. Her research interests cover adult learning and development, user research, and using rubric to assess students’ information literacy skills.

Ning’s ePortfolio is at http://www.ningzou.weebly.com