Cheryl Amundsen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Before coming to Simon Fraser University, she was a faculty member at McGill University for ten years, jointly appointed to the Centre for University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) and the Department of Educational Psychology. Her interests in teaching development in higher education and learning technologies are tightly interwoven with the focus of her research and scholarly activities. She is principal investigator in a research team with colleagues at McGill University and Concordia University, both in Montreal. The research program focuses on how university professors develop pedagogical knowledge in relationship to their subject matter, how they come to understand teaching, how they make instructional decisions, including the integration of various technology applications, and the effects of these aspects on student attitude and learning.

Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles

Amundsen, C., & Sohbat, E. (under review). An empirical invstigation of instructors using computer conferencing in higher education.

Bures, E., Amundsen, C., Abrami, P. (2002). Motivation to learn via computer conferencing (CC): Exploring how task-specific motivation and CC expectations are related to student acceptance of learning via CC. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 27(3), 249-264.

Saroyan, A., & Amundsen, C. (2001). Evaluating university teaching: Time to take stock. Assessment and Evaluation, 26(4), 341-353.

Bures, E., Abrami, P., & Amundsen, C. (2000). Motivation to learn via computer conferencing. Research in Higher Education, 41(5), 593-621.

Saroyan, A., & Amundsen, C. (1995). The systematic design and implementation of a program for teaching assistants. Canadian Journal of Higher Education,25(1), 1-18.

Bernard, R., Naidu, S., & Amundsen, C. (1991).  Choosing instructional variables for practice and research in distance education. Media and Technology for Human Resource Development, 4(1), 3-13. (Role=3)

Chapters and Books

Amundsen, C., & Collinge, J. (1999). Distance Education and Educational Technology: Implications for theory development. In G. Weidenfeld and D. Keegan (Eds.) Mélange: Distance Education at the Dawn of the Third Millennium (pp.51-72). Paris, France: Centre National D’Enseignement à Distance.

Amundsen, C. (1993). The Evolution of Theory in Distance Education. In Keegan, D. (Ed.), Theoretical Principles of Distance Education  (pp. 61-79). London:  Routledge.  (Chinese translation, 1997).

Amundsen, C., & Rogerson, H. (1992). Une recherche sur le role pédagogique des technologies de communication utilisées en formation à distance. In Sauvé, L. (Ed.), La Technologie Educative: d'Hier à Demain  (pp. 29-36). Québec City: Téléuniversité. (Role=1)