Blending with Purpose: The Multimodal Model
Anthony Picciano
Hunter College
United States
Anthony G. Picciano is a professor and executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also a professor in the graduate program in Education Leadership at Hunter College, the doctoral program in Interactive Pedagogy and Technology at the Graduate Center (CUNY), and the interdisciplinary program in Communication and Culture at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. He has forty years of experience in education administration and teaching, and has been involved in a number of major grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
In 1998, Dr. Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a multi-million dollar initiative funded by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation that provides support services to faculty using the Internet for course development.
Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Sloan Consortium. His major research interests are
education policy and leadership, Internet-based teaching and learning, and multimedia instructional
models.
Dr. Picciano’s major research interests are school leadership, education policy, Internet-based teaching and learning, and multimedia instructional models. Dr. Picciano has conducted two national studies with Jeff Seaman on the extent and nature of online and blended learning in American K-12 school districts. He has authored numerous articles and eight books including Data-Driven Decision Making for Effective School Leadership (2006, Pearson), Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 4th Edition (2005, Pearson), Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time (2001, Pearson), and Educational Research Primer (2004, Continuum). In 2007, he co-edited a book on blended learning with Chuck Dziuban entitled, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives (The Sloan Consortium). It is the only book in the field that provides a look at the research on blended learning. Most recently (2009), Dr. Picciano edited a special edition of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks on the theme “Blending with Purpose”.