Bill Hunter
Office: EDU 413B Phone: 905.721.8668 ext 3827 email: bill.hunter@uoit.ca
Bill Hunter was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Education, and served as dean until 2007. He is currently a full professor engaged in teaching and research related to educational technology.
Bill came to UOIT from the University of Calgary where he was a full professor and where he also served (at various times) as the Director of the Educational Technology Unit, the Head of the Department of Teacher Education and Supervision, the Academic Coordinator for the Distance Delivery Unit in the Graduate Division of Educational Research and the Coordinator of the Educational Technology graduate area. While at Calgary, he coached an education team that finished in first place at an international case-study competition at the University of Virginia. He has an active interest in university governance, having served on the Senate of the University of Calgary and on the Board of Governors of UOIT. Before Calgary, Bill taught for nine years at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax where he was also graduate coordinator in educational and school psychology.
Bill is a past editor of the Canadian Journal of Education and continues to serve on the editorial boards of several Canadian and international education journals, including the International Electronic Journal for Leadership and Learning. He has also served as editor of Telecommunications in Education News and as review editor for the Journal of Educational Thought. His past research has included work on gender differences in adult moral reasoning, artifacts of educational measurement, the misapplication of chaos theory in educational research, various aspects of technology-supported education and virtual schooling. He also has extensive experience in the evaluation of innovative educational projects.
His current research is focused on educational multimedia and on the use of ICT in education and teacher preparation in Northern Ireland.
Dr. Hunter was once a high school English teacher and has taught courses for university departments of mathematics, nursing, psychology and home economics. His career has included positions in Ohio, Rhode Island, Nova Scotia, Alberta and Ontario as well as sabbaticals in New York, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and, most recently, Northern Ireland.
