Adam Rusch presentation

Adam Rusch will give a presentation in response to the prompt, "Given the current challenges and trends in information sciences, tell us how you are prepared to help our school’s program grow and thrive?"

Rusch holds a PhD (2019) in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was entitled: Examining the Structure and Efficacy of Learning Management Systems. He has been working for the College of Education as an eLearning Specialist since 2018 and held a variety of Teaching and Research Assistantships prior to that related to learning technologies, online pedagogies, and social dimensions of technology systems.

As an adjunct for the iSchool, Rusch has taught IS 504 (Sociotechnical Information Systems), IS 402 (Into to Networked Information Systems), and IS 202 (Social Aspects of Information Technology). His past projects include qualitative research of online communities and organic structures of learning. His current research interests include democratization of information and ways that decentralized systems can empower communities to organize and create.