James A. White, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Instructional Technology

USF successfully incentivized me to retire at the close of the fall 2010 semester. Before that, I professed Instructional Technology and also served as Coordinator of Graduate Studies for The Department of Secondary Education. I designed USF's Ph.D. Program in Curriculum and Instruction with Emphasis in Instructional Technology and was coordinator of the program from its inception until my retirement. I served at the university level for 27 years, including a four year term as Director of the Florida Center for Instructional Computing (now called the FCIT), a funded research and service institute at USF. Before coming to USF I taught grades 8-12 mathematics and computer studies for 5 1/2 years.

My scholarly and teaching interests centered on instructional technology research methods and instrumentation. I authored or co-authored numerous inter/national journal articles, conference papers, and books. In addition, I led or participated in many different scholarly grants and contracts totaling millions of sponsored research dollars, among them both the first and second IBM model school projects (1983-1985) and the later IBM Grant Program for Colleges of Education (1989).

Over my career, I developed and taught many different courses in instructional technology on USF's Tampa, Lakeland, and Sarasota campuses. In the latter years of my career I was one of USF's pioneers in online instruction. The vast majority of my students rated my teaching very highly and my colleagues considered me to be an excellent teacher as well. I consider my greatest scholarly legacy to be the 25+ doctoral students whom I successfully mentored to degree completion between 1995 and 2010.