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Mary E. Hopper
Overview
Mary Hopper is dedicated to the research and development of innovative
ways to communicate knowledge within digital environments.
This has guided her through over 10 years of experience studying and
creating digital projects.
Research
She has worked in parallel on a project of her own that began during
her doctoral program where she completed her doctoral dissertation,
Development of Courseware in Advanced Computing Environments. In that
qualitative study she documented themes, production practices and problems
that emerged during digital projects at Intermedia (Brown University),
Athena (Academic Computing, MIT) and AthenaMuse (Center for Educational
Computing Initiatives, MIT). Her work has continued to evolve into an
increasingly formal project over the last fifteen years and has recently
become renewed and embodied it in E-Project Square, the core of which
is a relational database for integrating, managing, accessing, analyzing
and sharing qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data about a broad
sample of digital projects.
Postions and Projects
Her most recent academic affiliation was as Postdoctoral Associate at MIT
where she served as Managing Editor of Media in Transition, the flagship
project of MIT's new Comparative Media Studies program. Prior to that,
she served as a Visiting Scientist at MIT's Center for Educational Computing
Initiatives (CECI) where she created documentation and reports for AthenaMuse2
and Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS). Before joining MIT,
she founded and managed Studio-E in Harvard Square, a small computing services
firm that offered self-service, instruction, production and consulting to
individuals, firms and universities in the Boston/Cambridge area. She also
participated in many projects during her undergraduate and graduate careers
at Purdue University in Indiana.
Teaching
Hopper is also an accomplished educator and has taught classes for learners
of all ages and in a variety of subjects. She has taught the graduate courses
HTML for teachers (Lesley) Logo (PU), Classroom Evaluation and Measurement (PU),
the undergraduate courses Introduction to Media Studies (MIT), Computers in
Education for Teachers (PU), Educational Psychology (PU) and
Engineering Career Guidance (PU). While at Studio-E, she designed and taught
Jump-Start in Personal Computing, a personalized intensive computer training
service for professionals and the Infonauts Program, a computer skills workshop
for children in 3rd-6th grades. Finally, she has formal training as a teacher
in K-12 and held Indiana State Teacher's Licenses for English Education (5-12)
with endorsements in Computer and Gifted Education. Her duties on a research
project at Head Start included teaching young children pre-reading skills
through the use of Logo, and she also taught gifted and talented children
of all ages in many subjects through Purdue's Super Saturday Program.
Education
Mary Hopper has a PhD in Educational Computing and Instructional Design (1993),
MS in Educational Psychology with specializations in Educational Evaluation and
Measurement (1989), and a BA in English, Education and (1985) all from Purdue
University. She also completed course work in cataloging, reference, archives
and digital libraries at Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and
Information Science (1999-2001).
[2003 Short Version]
Mary Hopper is dedicated to the research and development of innovative ways to communicate
knowledge within digital environments. This has guided her through over 10 years of
experience studying and creating digital projects. She is the director of
E-Projects Square,
literally electronic projects about electronic projects, the core of which is a relational
database for integrating, accessing, analyzing and sharing longitudinal data
about a broad sample of digital projects. Work on this began during her doctoral
program where she completed the doctoral dissertation,
Development of Courseware in Advanced Computing Environments
(Hopper, 1993) in which she documented themes,
production practices and problems that emerged during digital projects which used
Intermedia (Brown University), Athena and AthenaMuse (MIT).
Her most recent academic affiliation was as Postdoctoral Associate at MIT
where she served as Managing Editor of
Media in Transition, the flagship project
of MIT's new Comparative Media Studies program. Prior to that, she served as a
Visiting Scientist at MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI)
where she created documentation and reports for
AthenaMuse2 and
Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS).
Before joining MIT,
she founded and managed Studio-E in Harvard Square,
a computing services firm that offered self-service, instruction, production and
consulting to individuals, firms and universities in the Boston/Cambridge area.
She also participated in many projects during her undergraduate and graduate
careers at Purdue University.
Hopper has a Ph.D. in Educational Computing and Instructional Design (1993),
M.S. in Educational Psychology with specializations in Educational Evaluation
and Measurement (1989), and a B.A. in English, Education and (1985) all from
Purdue University. She also completed course work in cataloging, reference,
archives and digital libraries at Simmons College's Graduate School of
Library and Information Science (1999-2001).
[1998 Version]
Mary Hopper is a Postdoctoral Associate of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Managing Editor of the Media in Transition Project WWW site. Her past activities
include a comparative study of successful educational computing projects at Purdue University (ESCAPE),
Brown University (Intermedia/Context32) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Athena/AthenaMuse).
(Hopper, 1998)
[1993 Version]
Mary E. Hopper served as the head designer for the "Engineering Career System"
and Graduate Teaching Assistant for Engineering 195C, is currently completing
a doctorate in Educational Computing and Instructional Design at Purdue University.
She has a Masters in Education (1989) with specializations in Educational Psychology
& Research Methods and a Bachelors in English and Secondary Education (1985),
both from Purdue University. She also holds Indiana State Teacher's Licenses for
English Education (5-12) with endorsements in Computer and Gifted Education.
(Hopper, 1993)
on the web
Mary's Home on the Web
http://www.TheWorld.com/~mehopper/
Mary's Home on the Web at MIT
http://web.mit.edu/mehopper/www
© Mary E. Hopper [MEHopper] |
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[posted 01/01/01 | revised 02/02/02]