Dr. Rita Conrad

Adjunct Professor

Profile
Rita-Marie Conrad has been teaching, designing and consulting about online courses for the past decade. She has been the head of online instructional development and an online faculty member at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University as well as an online faculty member for FSU's Master's degree program in instructional systems in the College of Education. She has also taught online courses for Capella University and Nova Southeastern University.

Dr. Conrad consults on the design and implementation of distance learning courses, the management of technology-related projects, the use of technology in the classroom, and she has provided training to community college and university faculty. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of online instruction at various national forums such as the Learning Resources Network and the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning.

Rita-Marie Conrad is coauthor of Faculty Guide to Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, which assisted faculty nationwide with decisions regarding the move of a course to the Web and is also the coauthor of Engaging the Online Learner: Activities for Creative Instruction published by Jossey-Bass.

She holds a Ph.D. in instructional systems design, with a specialization in distance learning, from Florida State University, a master's degree in educational media and computers from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Illinois State University.