Curriculum Vita
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Phone: 604-291-3476
Fax: 604-291-3203
E-mail: dko@acm.org
| 1998 |
Doctor of Philosophy in Education, field of Learning Sciences
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Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| 1992 |
Bachelor of Science with honors in Computing and Information Science
and Liberal Studies |
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
| 1997 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the James S. McDonnell Foundation,
Cognitive Studies in Educational Practice program (Drs. Marlene Scardamalia and
Carl Bereiter, co-sponsors) |
| 1997 |
NSERC PDF Award (Dr. Marlene Scardamalia, sponsor) |
| 1992 |
Two-year Graduate Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada to conduct Human-Computer Interaction
research on metaphor-driven design. Award not tenured due to change
of research emphasis and study in the United States. |
| 1987-1991 |
Yearly scholarships from Brock University for outstanding achievement.
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| 1999-2002 |
$120,000 grant (with Marlene Scardamalia) from the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada to construct an informal network of children
and adults to study the Underground Railroad. Participants in St. Louis, MO
and St. Catharines, Ontario will exploit unique resources in their communities
(museums, archives, historic sites, and local experts) to construct and refine
historical narratives about this period and its events. Trough the use of the
Knowledge Forum software, participants will share and refine their narratives
collaboratively, learning about the nature of historical evidence and accounts
by confronting and negotiating differences in perspective. |
| 1998-2000 |
$77,000 grant (with Marlene Scardamalia) from the Office of Learning
Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada, to explore the potential of
telementoring as a mode of continuous staff development and educational outreach
for business. The project will also develop an empirically-based Telementor
Guidebook for prospective volunteers and their work organizations. |
Design strategies for effective educational computing systems and interventions. Telementoring and distant collaboration. Evaluation strategies for collaborative systems. Childrens' historical reasoning. Research genres and measures of written genre appropriation.
Title: Engaging science practice through science practitioners: Design experiments in K-12 Telementoring. This research was aimed at the design of network services and classroom activity structures to support curriculum-based, on-line volunteer mentoring of K-12 students pursuing long-term science projects.
| Present |
Assistant Professor, Education and Technology, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University. |
| 1999-2000 |
Research Associate, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. I worked with Alan Lesgold, Lauren Resnick, and a team of Resident Fellows at the Insitute for Learning on a research and development project called NetLearn. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the team is designing and building a web-based system to support and extend the Institute for Learning's unique model of district-wide, standards-based reform. The Institute for Learning is currently active in school districts around the U.S., and is largely financially self-supporting. |
| 1997-1999 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, CSILE/Knowledge-Building team, OISE/UT. I worked in collaboration with Drs. Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter, conducting design experiments in CSILE/Knowledge Forum classrooms. These were aimed at overcoming the limitations of email as a medium for telementoring discourse, and developing more flexible and scalable models and tools for telementoring. |
| 1992-1997 |
Research Assistant, Northwestern University, Learning Through
Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project. This is a National
Science Foundation-funded educational networking testbed project.
I worked under the direction of Louis M. Gomez, Roy D. Pea and
Daniel C. Edelson to conduct research and development of software
systems, teaching-learning strategies and research tools to support
innovation in project-based science at the K-12 level. My duties
included computer programming and interface design, classroom
observation, research instrument design, and the collection and
analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. Read more
about CoVis at http://www.covis.nwu.edu. |
| 1990-1991 |
Hypermedia Laboratory, Brock University. I worked under the direction
of John O. Mitterer to produce a hypermedia tool for visualizing
statistical concepts through animations, called The Statistics
Cinema. My duties included interface design, computer programming
and writing. |
| 1996, Fall |
T.A. for an undergraduate-level course in Human-Computer Interaction
and Design with Louis M. Gomez. This upper-level course is cross-listed
in the Department of Computer Science in Northwestern University's
Technological Institute and in the Learning Sciences M.A. and
Ph.D.. programs in the School of Education and Social Policy.
This 10-week project-based course attempts to introduce students
to the tools and techniques of designing for usability through
the construction and analysis of prototypes in consultation with
prospective users on campus. My duties for the course included
planning and leading seminars, advising students on the design
and evaluation of systems, and grading papers. |
| 1995 |
T.A. for an undergraduate-level course in Computer-Mediated Communications
with Dr. Joseph Walther. This course is cross-listed in the Communications
Studies program in the School of Speech and the Master of Science
in Education program in the School of Education and Social Policy.
My duties included conducting weekly tutorials and labs, advising
students on the design of research projects, and grading papers.
Part of the course involved cross-Atlantic collaboration on writing
assignments with students in a comparable class at the University
of Manchester, England. |
| 1993-1996 |
Summer Professional Development Workshops for teachers involved
in the CoVis project. My duties involved both facilitating and
leading sessions introducing CoVis teachers to experimental technologies
for teaching and learning (such as the Collaboratory Notebook)
and activities for their use. In 1996, I planned and conducted
a session on telementoring with Rory Wagner and Judy Whitcomb,
two of the teachers involved in my dissertation research. This
session introduced all of the attendees to the approaches of my
research collaborators to telementoring and my approach to studying
their work. |
| 1995, Fall |
Internet training workshop for preservice teachers, Evanston Township
High School. This workshop was conducted in conjunction with the
Master of Science in Education program at the School of Education
and Social Policy, Northwestern University. |
| 1995, Summer |
Biosphere 2 Global Change Testbed workshop. I conducted workshop
sessions for a small group of teachers at Biosphere 2 in Oracle,
Arizona. These sessions were to prepare them to implement an experimental
curriculum on global change involving the use of the Collaboratory
Notebook software to sustain telementoring relationships between
their students and scientists at Biosphere 2 and Columbia University.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
The CoVis Collaboratory Notebook.
This is a unique Internet-based groupware system designed and built to support students' and teachers' work on long-term science projects. To my knowledge it was the first wide-area collaborative learning tool of its kind, and was first deployed only shortly after commercial products such as Lotus Notes became available. I designed this software with Daniel Edelson and Roy Pea as part of the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project at Northwestern. I produced the first prototype in Macintosh Common LISP, and along with CoVis Senior Programmer Myrland J. Gray, refined this prototype for classroom use. I had a large influence over the design and evolution of the system over the following three years through the conduct and analysis of field trials and curricular experiments with high school teachers. I have also contributed in a variety of ways, including the planning and conduct of teacher workshops, to the use of this software both inside and outside the CoVis Project. I continue to advise on the cross-platform re-development of the system in C++ to support electronic collaboration at the post-secondary level. (Read more about the software at http://www.covis.nwu.edu/info/Software/Collaboratory_Notebook.html)
The CoVis Mentor Database.
This is a World-Wide Web-based application which I designed and built to help volunteer scientists and K-12 teachers locate each other and arrange on-line mentoring relationships for primary and secondary students. Written in a dialect of Perl and using an Oracle database to store data, it provides services for instructors to petition volunteers for help with particular projects, set up and manage "matches" between volunteer mentors and teams of students, and also automatically routes and logs e-mail between registered mentors and mentees. To my knowledge, the Mentor Database is currently the best-developed infrastructure to support continued research and development on telementoring. The system was conceived in the early stages of my dissertation research and designed along with Rory Wagner, a high school science teacher involved in the CoVis project. It continues to be refined with the support of other teachers and researchers involved in the project. (Visit it at http://www.covis.nwu.edu/mentors/ welcome.html)
LISP, Perl, SQL, Pascal & Modula-2
Canadian (married to a US citizen)
O'Neill, D.K. and Harris, J. (2000). Is everybody happy? Bridging the perspectives and developmental needs of participants in telementoring programs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 24-28, New Orleans, Louisiana.
O'Neill, D.K., Abeygunawardena, H., Perris, K, and Punja, Z. (2000). The Telementor's Guidebook: A field guide to supporting student inquiry on-line. Final report of Office of Learning Technologies project #89116. Ottawa: Human Resources Development Canada.
O'Neill, D.K. and Scardamalia, M.S. (2000). Mentoring in the open: A strategy for supporting human development in the knowledge society. Paper presented at ICLS 2000: International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI.
O'Neill, D.K. (1999). Mentoring in the open: Overcoming developmental challenges in telementoring. Invited address at the first annual Federal Focus Ed-Mentor Symposium, Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 1999.
O'Neill, D.K. (submitted). Finding a voice for science: Examining the influence of innovative teaching through students' use of genre.
O'Neill, D.K. (in press). Enabling constructivist teaching through telementoring. Special Services in the Schools, 17 (1/2). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.
O'Neill, D.K. and Gomez, L.M. (1998). Sustaining mentoring relationships on-line. In Greenberg, S. and Neuwirth, C. (eds.), Proceedings of CSCW 98: ACM conference on computer-supported cooperative work. November 14-18, 1998. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
O'Neill, D.K. (1998). Telementoring for Knowledge-Building. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the James S. McDonnell Foundation's Cognitive Studies for Educational Practice Program, Sept. 24-27, Boulder, CO.
Lento, E.M., O'Neill, D.K. and Gomez, L.M. (1998). Integrating Internet services into school communities. In Dede, C. (ed.), ASCD Yearbook 1998: Learning with technology. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
O'Neill, D.K., Lachance-Whitcomb, J. and Wagner, R. (1997). Mentoring K-12 science students on-line. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the International Mentoring Association, March 2-4, Tempe, Arizona.
Bennett, D., Goldman, M., Harris, J., Neils, D., O'Neill, D.K. (1997) "Supporting and Sustaining Telementoring". Panel presented at TelEd '97: Telecommunications in Education. November 13-15, 1997, Austin Texas.
O'Neill, D.K. (1997, February). Telementoring to strengthen project-based science learning. ETS Research Seminar, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.
Pea, R., Gomez, L., Edelson, D., Fishman, B., Gordin, D., & O'Neill, K. (in press). Science Education as a Driver of Cyberspace Technology Development. To appear in Cohen, K.C. (Ed.), The Impact of the Internet and Technology on Student-Scientist Partnerships: A New Force in Science and Science Education. New York: Plenum Press.
O'Neill D.K. (1997, March). Bluffing Their Way Into Science: Analyzing Students' Appropriation of the Research Article Genre. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
O'Neill, D.K., Harris, J. and Neils, D. (1997, March). On-line Mentoring for K-12 Students: Lessons and Predictions from Three Programs. Symposium to be conducted at Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Gomez, L.M. and O'Neill, D.K. (1996, December). Helping students and teachers find the people they need in the digital library. Talk presented at Tel-Ed '96, Tampa, Florida: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Fishman, B., Gomez, L., Pea, R., Edelson, D., Lento, E., D'Amico, L, Gordin, D., Kwon, S. O'Neill, K., Polman, J., Shrader, G., Lachance-Whitcomb, J., & Wagner, R. (1997, March). The CoVis Project: A National Testbed for Science Learning Reform. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Oak Brook, IL.
O'Neill, D.K., Wagner, R. and Gomez, L.M.(1996, November). On-line mentors: Experimenting in Science Class. Educational Leadership, 54(3). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
O'Neill, D.K. (1995, July). The CoVis Project, where we've been and what we've learned: An overview for the teachers and researchers of the Biosphere 2 Global Change Testbed. Invited talk at Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona.
O'Neill, D.K. and Gomez, L.M. (1995). Designing Collaborative Educational Software. Invited talk to The Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area, Nov. 14, 1995.
O'Neill, D. K., Edelson, D. C., Gomez, L. M., & D'Amico, L. (1995). Learning to Weave Collaborative Hypermedia into Classroom Practice. In J.L. Schnase & E. L. Cunnius (Eds.) Proceedings of CSCL '95: The First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, October 17-20, 1995, Bloomington, Indiana. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Edelson, D.C., O'Neill, D. K., Gomez, L. M., & D'Amico, L. (1995). A Design for Effective Support of Inquiry and Collaboration. In J.L. Schnase & E. L. Cunnius (Eds.) Proceedings of CSCL '95: The First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, October 17-20, 1995, Bloomington, Indiana. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
O'Neill, D.K. & Edelson, D.C. (1995, April). The CoVis Collaboratory Notebook: Recording and sharing the inquiry process. In Using technology to realize the potential of project-based science learning. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Pea, R.D., Edelson, D., Gomez, L., D'Amico, L., Fishman, B., Gordin, D.N., McGee, S., O'Neill, K., & Polman, J. (1994, April). The CoVis Collaboratory: High school science learning supported by a broadband educational network with scientific visualization, videoconferencing, and collaborative computing. In Issues in computer-networking in K-12 classrooms: A progress report of four NSF testbeds. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
O'Neill, D. K. & Gomez, L. (1994). The Collaboratory Notebook: A distributed knowledge-building environment for project-enhanced learning. In T. Ottmann & I. Tomek (Eds.), Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1994: Proceedings of Ed-Media '94 (pp. 416-423). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Edelson, D.C., & O'Neill, D.K. (1994). The CoVis Collaboratory Notebook: Supporting collaborative scientific inquiry. In A. Best (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 National Educational Computing Conference (pp.146-152). Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education in cooperation with the National Education Computing Association.
O'Neill, D.K., Gomez, L.M. and Edelson, D.C. (1994). Collaborative Hypermedia for the Classroom and Beyond: A Year's Experiences with the Collaboratory Notebook. In Haake, J.M. (ed.), Proceedings of the CSCW '94 Workshop on Collaborative Hypermedia Systems, Oct. 22, 1994, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
O'Neill, D.K. (1992). The Practicality of Pyrrhonism. Unpublished undergraduate thesis, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Mitterer, J. & O'Neill, D.K. (1992) The end of "information": Computers, Democracy and the University. Interchange, 23(1-2), 123-139. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
O'Neill, D.K. & Mitterer, J. (1991) Separating metaphor from magic: Some theory for metaphor-driven design. Brock University Department of Computer Science and Information Processing Technical Report CS-91-03, 23 pages.