Dean Sarah Irvine Belson

Research and teaching interests: Dr. Irvine Belson's research activities focus on infusing effective components of instructional design with emerging technology across the field of education, particularly for students with exceptionalities. Dr. Irvine Belson has trained pre-service and in-service special education teachers in the area of electronic communication and technology integration. Through field-based research, she 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.

Recent publications: Integrating Technology into Special Education. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, MA. (2003). Ubiquitous Computing Meets Universal Design, AACE, Honolulu, HI. (2003). Serendipity and the Teachable Moment. Technos Quarterly: For Education and Technology. Volume 11:1. (2002).