Charles Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where has been a faculty member for the past 36 years, teaching research design and statistics.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.  For the past 8 years he has directed the impact evaluation of UCF’s distributed learning initiative examining student and faculty outcomes as well as gauging the impact of online courses on the university. 

Chuck has published in numerous journals including:  Multivariate Behavioral Research, The Psychological Bulletin, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the American Education Research Journal, the Phi Delta Kappan, the Internet in Higher Education, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks and the Sloan-C View.   His methods for determining psychometric adequacy have been featured in both the SPSS and the SAS packages.  He has received funding from several government and industrial agencies including the Ford Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and the National Science Foundation.  In 2000, Chuck was named UCF’s first ever Pegasus Professor for extraordinary research, teaching, and service and in 2005 was named professor emeritus.

Currently, he is editing a book on blended learning research for the Sloan foundation, has a forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Blended Learning as well as in the e-book- Educating the Net Generation published by Educause. In 2005 the Sloan-C Consortium named Chuck the outstanding individual in online learning.