Understanding Problems of Practice / SpringerBriefs in Educational Communications and Technology (PDF)

Priscilla Norton is a Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. She has been involved with educational technology since the late 1970's, working with teachers to understand the role of the electronic technologies to support teaching and learning. Dr. Norton is Director of the Designing Digital Learning in Schools Master's and certificate programs as well as a faculty member with the Learning Technologies Design Research doctoral program. Dr. Norton has been designing, developing, and studying e-learning environments for teachers and high school students resulting in part in The Online Academy - a virtual high school. This program was awarded the 2006 Governor's Technology Award (COVITS) for Innovative Use of Technology in K-12 Education. In 2007, Dr. Norton was selected as a recipient of the Virginia Outstanding Faculty award sponsored by the State Commission on Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) and Dominion Power. She is the author of numerous articles and two books - Teaching with Technology (Norton & Wiburg, 2003) and Technology for Teaching (Norton & Sprague, 2001). More recently, she received the AACE E-Learn outstanding paper award (2014) and the AACE SITE outstanding paper award (2015), both co-authored with Dawn Hathaway. Her research interests include design strategies and processes as they influence technology teacher education, online learning environments for both teachers and high school students, and the design of K-12 digital learning in schools.


Dawn Hathaway is an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development, Graduate School of Education, Division of Learning Technologies at George Mason University. Dr. Hathaway designs and researches graduate programs for K-12 practicing teachers in a Master's program in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Designing Digital Learning in Schools. Recently, she received the AACE E-Learn outstanding paper award (2014) and