Biography

Jackie Sabol is currently an Instructional Designer in Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technolgy unit where she is a program coordinator for campuses.  She has over 25 years of experience with Penn State including work as a campus technology coordinator, a campus Instructional Designer, and Interim IT Director for the Vice President of Commonwealth Campuses. Before joining Penn State, Jackie was a UNIX System Administrator for AT&T Bell Labs.  In addition to her staff position, she is an adjunct instructor having taught a variety of credit and non-credit courses including, programming, web development, business information systems, and statistics. Jackie has a Masters degree in Adult Education, a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology/Organization Behavior, and an Associate degree in Computer Science, in addition to graduate level certificates. She has several published papers, has presented at local, state and international conferences, and is an alumni of both the OLC Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Education and the EDUCAUSE Technology Leadership Institute.