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In addition to her role in RCET, Karen Swan is also a faculty member in the Instructional Technology Program in the College and Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services. Dr. Swan's research has been focused in the general area of media and learning on which she has published and presented nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on online learning, mobile computing and on student learning in ubiquitous computing environments.

In addition to her role in RCET, Karen Swan is also a faculty member in the Instructional Technology Program in the College and Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services. Dr. Swan's research has been focused in the general area of media and learning on which she has published and presented nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on online learning, mobile computing and on student learning in ubiquitous computing environments. Dr. Swan has authored several hypermedia programs including Set on Freedom: The American Civil Rights Movement 1953-1968, and co-edited two books, Social Learning from Broadcast Television and Ubiquitous Computing in Education: Invisible Technology, Visible Impact, as well as a DVD ROM on the latter topic. She served as a project director on several large scale grants including work for the NYC Board of Education, the US Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is currently principle investigator for an NSF materials development grant focused on middle school data literacy. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Sloan Consortium on Asynchronous Learning Networks, the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research, and Editor of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology. Dr. Swan received the 2006 Sloan-C award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Online Learning by an Individual.