Biography

Gail is Senior Associate Director for Strategic Develoment at the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research.  In this capacity, she helps develop new initiatives, leads the Faculty Scholars program, designs and facilitates workshops, and consults with faculty and staff on ideas for improving learning.

Gail's research focuses on engaging students as storytellers and creators within multimodal online learning contexts. She came to CATLR from Northeastern’s Graduate School of Education, College of Professional Studies, where as Associate Teaching Professor she founded and led the school’s eLearning and Instructional Design M.Ed. program, served as a doctoral thesis advisor, and chaired the Faculty Academic Council’s Academic Programs Committee. She retains a lecturer affiliation with the GSE.

Gail was the recipient Northeastern University’s 2014 CPS Award for Teaching Excellence and the Sloan-C Online Learning Consortium’s 2013 Learning Effectiveness Award. She is a founding board member of the Association of Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL).  From 2011-14 she led Northeastern’s involvement in Connect to Learning, a FIPSE-funded national network that developed the Catalyst for Learning framework of effective ePortfolio practice.  In addition to authoring many publications, she provides editorial review for Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the Online Learning Journal and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education.