Jeffrey Kissinger

Jeff Kissinger’s professional life has been immersed in education, mentoring, online administration and curriculum development. In addition, he has continued to teach online for the part 15 years in the areas of teacher preparation and instructional design. Once a special education adaptive technology specialist and high school teacher, Jeff received a master’s in curriculum and instruction as well as a masters in special education from The University of Florida. After teaching in K12, he went on to lead instructional design teams in the industry and education. Fascinated by the learning affordances of situated cognition and mobile technologies, Jeff completed his dissertation research on the learning experiences of students within a mobile learning model.

Passionate about access-enabling missions, methods, and learning technologies, Jeff has worked and consulted nationally and abroad in the areas of instructional design, educator development and mentoring, online/blended learning, and mobile learning. Most recently, Jeff comes from Rollins College in Winter Park Florida where he mentored faculty and launched their first online program in instructional design. He also designed and launched a university-wide faculty development and mentoring program at The University of The West Indies.