Area of Expertise: Special-education technology, educational technology, using the Internet and educational software as an instructional tool, curriculum-based assessment, diversity issues, teacher education

Additional Information: Sarah Irvine Belson, dean of the School of Education, Teaching and Health and an associate professor of education, specializes in technology integration. Her research activities focus on infusing effective components of instructional design with emerging technology across the field of education. In addition to extensive use of computer-mediated instruction in her teacher preparation courses, Irvine directs several school-based projects examining implementation of high-end technology, telecommunications, and international networking in the classroom. She has trained pre-service and in-service teachers in the area of electronic communication and technology integration. She serves as a consultant to schools and businesses on design, implementation and analysis of technology-based solutions to instruction and application development. Through field-based research, Irvine has successfully worked to integrate Internet-based activities into educational programs for rural and at-risk K–12 students. Her background in special education provides a knowledge-base for development of the types of support that assist educators to adaptively respond to a variety of individual differences in learning strategies among students. Irvine-Belson's publications include a textbook, Integrating Technology into Special Education (Houghton-Mifflin), and "Serendipity and the Teachable Moment," in Technos Quarterly for Education and Technology, Volume 11:1.

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