Dan W. Cooper Active Learning Technologies, Inc. Marist College

Dan Cooper is the president of Active Learning Technologies, Inc. and teaches finance and investments at Marist College. Active Learning creates and manages technology-related projects for higher education. Some recent projects include: Prentice Hall's Learning on the Internet Partnership, this project is the largest ongoing web support project for business publishing supporting 15 business disciplines and over 60 of Prentice Hall's best-selling business textbooks. Active Learning is currently finishing 13 full online courses for Prentice Hall's Business Publishing Group. These courses are built around a consistent and pedagogically robust instructional design created specifically for the project by Active Learning. Active Learning provided all content creation and production services for the project. The online courses employ the WebCT course delivery system. In 1998, Active Learning also created the Perils of Pauline. This project combined custom video with highly interactive online exercises. The Pauline project is indicative of how new technologies can be combined to produce both entertaining and educational content. Active Learning is currently very involved with developing dynamic and highly personalizable online resources.

Dan joined the Marist faculty in September of 1994. His teaching experience at Marist and other institutions spans a broad spectrum of topics. In addition to finance, investments, and economics, he has also developed and taught courses in technology-related topics such as expert systems development, operating systems, communications, and database management.

Dan has earned high praise for his teaching style. Dan has received the School of Management Faculty of the Year Award presented by the Student Academic Council for each of the past three years as well as an Extraordinary Merit Award for his teaching and service efforts in 1995. Dan was the recipient along with his colleague and co-author, Dr. Brian Grinder, of the Financial Management Association 1995 Innovations in Teaching of Finance Award.

Dan holds a doctorate in Business - Finance from Washington State University, as well as an undergraduate degree in finance from Gonzaga University. As a graduate student, Dan was named Outstanding Doctoral Student by the Dean of the College of Business and Economics. As an undergraduate student he earned numerous honors including graduating Magna Cum Laude, membership in Beta Gamma Sigma (the honor society for business administration students).

Dan's research and writing interests are also quite varied. Dan has published in Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Financial Practice and Education, Financial Management Collections, the Focus Systems Journal, Colleges and Universities, and the Museum of American Financial History's quarterly publication Financial History. Dan also makes many presentations each year to other academic institutions or academic associations on the subject of technology enhanced teaching. Recent presentation locations include EDUCOM and EDUCAUSE, the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, the Ford Fellows for Business Journalism program, the University of Iowa, the University of Kansas, Wake Forest University, Columbia Teachers College, and the Decision Science Institute - Northeast to name but a few.

Dan is a member of the Financial Management Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Eastern Finance Association, and the Academy of Financial Services. Dan is a reviewer for the Financial Services Review and Financial Practice and Education. Dan serves on the Board of Trustees and the Editorial Board for the Museum of American Financial History and co-writes the quarterly Educator's Perspective column for the museum's magazine. Dan has participated as an author and editor at large on books dealing with expert systems, presentation graphics, and the Windows software platform.

Dan is serving or has served on several academic committees at Marist since 1995. Some recent assignments include the College's Strategic Planning Steering committee, co-chair of the Strategic Planning Technology subcommittee, the Planning Assumptions subcommittee for strategic planning, the Executive Vice-President Search committee, the Vice-President for Information Technology Search committee, the School of Management Dean Search committee, the Director of Academic Technology Search committee, the College's Information Technology Advisory committee, the School of Management's Instructional Resources and Technology committee, and the MBA Taskforce. Dan is currently heading up the development of an online version of the Marist MBA. These assignments help identify the vision of the institution as well as help set the agenda for innovation in the School of Management.

Dan has an extremely patient wife, Jeanne, two middle school aged children, Danielle and Nicholas, and a three year old son, Nathaniel James.

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