Lynne O'Brien
Email: lynne.obrien@duke.edu
Phone: 919-660-5862
Fax: 919-660-5923
Physical location: 104 Perkins Library
Mailing address:
Box 90193
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services
Lynne manages the Center for Instructional Technology, the Digital Projects Department and the Scholarly Communication office in Perkins Library. She works with faculty, librarians, campus IT planners and academic technology groups to develop strategic programs to support the use of technology in academic and research initiatives. In collaboration with other groups within the Library, she plans and develops new ways the Library’s web presence can provide access to digital resources and services. Over the last three years, Lynne and her staff have been key players in the campus-wide Duke Digital initiative, which promoted faculty and student use of digital media in teaching.
Background
Lynne came to Duke from Brown University, where she was a faculty member and manager of instructional computing services. She has organized conferences on academic computing, taught courses in educational software design, planned technology-enhanced classrooms, reviewed grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health and served on accreditation teams for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Lynne holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware.
Selected publications and presentations
Podcasting and Digital Media in Education: New Possibilities for Teaching and Learning. Keynote address at E-Learning Day, Boston College, Boston, MA, May 16, 2007.
Transitioning Academic Technologies from Experimentation to Institutional Support. With Yvonne Belanger, Head, Program Evaluation, Duke University and Samantha Earp, Head, Instructional Media and Language Technology Services, Duke University, Educause National Conference, October 10, 1006.
Institutional Podcasting and Media Sharing. With Tom Lewis, Director, Catalyst Research & Development, University of Washington, and Victoria Szabo, Academic Technology Manager, VPUE, Stanford University Educause Seminars on Academic Computing, Snowmass, CO, Aug. 8, 2006.
Multimedia, Mobile and Mine: New ways of creating and using information in teaching and research. American Library Association National Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries division, New Orleans, June 24, 2006.
Epiphany vs. Evidence: Why (and How) We Must Assess the Impact of IT on Learning Outcomes. With Carl F. Berger, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Lev S. Gonick, Vice President for Information Technology Services/CIO, Case Western Reserve University, Gilbert R. Gonzales, Chief Information Officer, California State University, Monterey Bay, Kenneth C. Green, Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project, Educause National Conference, Orlando, FL, October 19, 2005.
Lynne O’Brien, Education Goes Mobile and Multimedia, Duke Library Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 2/3, Spring-Summer, 2006. http://magazine.lib.duke.edu/issue19/
Lynne O’Brien, Amy Campbell and Samantha Earp, "CMS Implementation as a Catalyst for Curricular Change," invited chapter in Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy, edited by Patricia McGee et. al., Idea Group Publishing, Inc., 2005.
