Michael Barbour is currently an Associate Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Services at Touro University California in Vallejo, CA. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Director of Doctoral Studies for the Isabelle Farrington College of Education and an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Michael began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he taught Instructional Technology and Education Evaluation & Research. He has also been an adjunct professor for the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University since 2011.
Michael completed his Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia. Originally from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, his interest in K-12 distance education for rural students began after accepting his first high school teaching position in a regional high school in a rural community of approximately 3,500 people.
Having been educated in an urban area, Michael was troubled by the inequity of opportunity provided to his rural students and began a program to offer Advanced Placement (i.e., university-level) social studies courses over the Internet to students at his own school and other schools in the district. His current research interests focus on the effective design and delivery online learning to K-12 students in distance and online learning environments, particularly those in rural jurisdictions.
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