Julie Little

Julie K. Little, is the Interim Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.  She has devoted the past twenty years to exploring and integrating information technologies in the Academy's teaching, learning, and research practices. Shared through national and international forums, her research interests focus on faculty development, facilitating communications and collaboration in distributed learning environments, and designing effective uses of instructional technologies.

Most recently she served as Interim Assistant CIO and Executive Director of Educational Technology and the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee (UT). Teaching experiences include instructional technology, information science, teacher education and mentoring, and online communications at the University of Tennessee and The Sage Colleges as well as secondary social studies, humanities, and English in North Carolina and the Department of Defense Dependent Schools/Europe. Experience in instructional design and development includes a Pew Grant in Course Redesign, an interactive multimedia program on gender equity, student-faculty telecommunications skills, and a national defense training prototype. As a participant in two EDUCAUSE professional development institutes (Frye and Management), she has also served on the Apple distinguished educator higher education leadership team, the distance education advisory board and accreditation committee for the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Higher Education, and numerous university-wide committees and EDUCAUSE program committees.

She earned a B.A. in Government and International Studies (1981) and a Master of Arts in Teaching (1983) from the University of South Carolina and a Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction (1995) from the University of Tennessee.