Gene Shwalb - Instructional Designer and Adjunct Instructor at the UMass Boston

Gene Shwalb is an Instructional Designer for the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

He supports online faculty using Blackboard Vista, Wimba Classroom and Voice, and Adobe Presenter/Breeze. Gene is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, teaching graduate courses in Instructional Design and Technology.

You can get more information on his department and work at:  http://www.umb.edu/it/tech/lms.

Gene was able to give us his history both an instructional designer and instructor using Web 2.0 tools and more information on synchronous learning versus asynchronous learning.  He was also able to show the advantages of integrating these tools with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and how they have been most successful.