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Nora Paul

Nora Paul

Nora Paul is the director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. From 1991 to 2000, she was with the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Prior to that, she was editor for information services at the Miami Herald for 12 years.

Jude Higdon

Jude Higdon

Jude Higdon is the Instructional Technology Support Team Coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he manages a team of more than 20 instructional designers. He also occasionally teaches courses at Hamline University's Graduate School of Education. He holds an Ed.D. in educational psychology from the University of Southern California, an Ed.M. in technology in education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a B.S. in African politics from Northwestern University. Before coming to U of M, Jude worked at the convergence of technology and education at other institutions of higher learning including Northwestern University, the City Colleges of Chicago, Brandeis University, Harvard University, Duke University, and the University of Southern California. He has also developed online learning environments for several major not-for-profit organizations including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Red Cross, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His dissertation research focused on the intersection of goal orientation and feedback. He is an avid Anusara yogi and will be happy to bore you with stories about his current favorite arm balance.