Bio

Since 1993, Clark Shah-Nelson has developed, designed, taught, and coordinated distance and online learning programs. He is currently Assistant Dean of Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Formerly Senior Instructional Designer, Team Lead at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology and Manager of Online Education at SUNY Delhi in the Catskills of New York, where he oversaw strategic planning, faculty and policy development, as well as instructional design of online courses. He's also a consultant, focusing primarily on knowledge management, online education and administration of Atlasssian Jira, and has worked with a small team on a grant with the SUNY Center for Online International Learning (COIL) with the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania (a Belarussian University in exile). Past awards include a 2010 and 2016 Sloan Consortium Effective Practices Award, 2006 Excellence in Online Teaching award and his German learning videos from MyGermanClass.com were one of the top 100 People's Choice Video Podcasts from Apple's iTunes. He was a featured presenter at the New Media Consortium's 2007 Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video and has recently presented at SLOAN-C ALN, Educause's NERCOMP, and the SUNY CIT and COIL Center Conferences. Prior to his move to New York, he spent over seven years teaching online German for Colorado Online Learning, and seven years building the Denver Public Schools' Distance Learning Network. He has a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus, Master Degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Colorado at Denver and Bachelor of Arts from Luther College. Shah-Nelson lives with his wife, two sons and a Shih Tsu in Baltimore.