Background: Linda A. Tsantis, Ed.D.

Linda Tsantis is the coordinator of the Technology for Educators graduate program at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Tsantis received her Ed.D. degree in early childhood / special education at George Washington University, where she taught in the graduate program for 14 years, and has completed post-doctoral research at Harvard University.

Following a sabbatical assignment in IBM Academic Systems, Linda was recruited to direct IBM innovative study projects involving the application of computer and communications technology in special education and early childhood education. In 1991 Dr. Tsantis joined two colleagues to form a small company providing information and technology consulting services to educators and education associations. In 1996, Linda became the Director of Academic Affairs at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She joined the Faculty of Johns Hopkins University in November, 1997. Her current interests include the design of distributed learning graduate courses that combine the mentoring possibilities of online communications with the data mining possibilities of deep information resources.

Linda served on the technology committee of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and was a board member of the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project. She has written two book chapters on applications of technology in learning and is on the international advisory board of New Horizons for Learning, and the National Learning Foundation. Dr. Tsantis also served on the White House Task Force on Innovative Teaching. She has won awards from the Council for Exceptional Children Teacher Education Division and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs for the development of innovative teaching programs.