Baker
Personal information
- Middle Name
- M.A.
- Last name
- Baker
- Position
- Associate Director
- Institution
- Center for 21st Century Universities
- Website
- http://c21u.gatech.edu
- Brief Bio
Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., is Associate Director, Center for 21st Century Universities(C21U) and Director of Research at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Policy, and on the faculty of IPaT and the GVU Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Baker also is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has taught courses in the areas of political science, disability policy, public administration, information policy, and state and local government policy making. He is currently researching the role of educational technology in enhancing learning outcomes, institutional policy issues in higher education and role of policy in advancing technology and universal accessibility goals for persons with disabilities. Baker was recently appointed to the Educational Advisory Board for Footbridge International, a Limerick, Ireland, based educational software developer.
- Full Bio
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pmbaker1
Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for 21st Century Universities(C21U) and Director of Research at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), holds the rank of Senior Research Scientist with the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is the Project Director of Policy Initiatives for both the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Wireless Technologies, and the Workplace Accommodations RERC. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Policy, and on the faculty of IPaT, the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U), and the GVU Center at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Disability Law & Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has taught courses in the areas of political science, disability policy, public administration, information policy, and state and local government policy making. He is currently researching the role of policy in advancing technology and universal accessibility goals for persons with disabilities; the operation of communities of practice and online communities in virtual environments, and institutional issues involved in public sector information policy development and state and local government use of information and communication technologies (ICT’s).
SpecialtiesE-accessibility, higher education policy, e-government, digital government, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Communications Policy, Public Policy, Disability and Accessibility Policy, online and virtual communities, telework, e-learning, virtual collaboration, open source, communities of practice.
Interests
- 21st Century Literacies
- Academia
- Assessment & Evaluation
- Civic Engagement
- Geography & Location
- Collaboration
- Internet & Web 2.0
- Digital Divide & Access
- International & Global
- Mobile
- Digital Media & Learning
- Government & Politics
- Virtual Worlds
- Higher Education
- Institutions & Organizations
- Online Identity
- Social Networks & Social Media
- Research & Methodologies
- Community & Policy
- Technology
- HASTAC
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