ANTHONY COCCIOLO
144 West 14th St., 604D
New York, NY 10003
anthony.cocciolo@gmail.com

EDUCATION

• Teachers College, Columbia University
  Ed.D., Communication, Computing and Technology in Education (2005-2009)
  Dissertation Title: Using Information and Communications Technologies to Advance a Participatory Culture: A Study from a Higher Education Context [PDF]
  Dissertation Committee: Charles Kinzer, Gary Natriello, Lalitha Vasudevan and Jeanne Bitterman
  Ed.M., Communication, Computing and Technology in Education (2005-2008)
  M.A., Communication, Computing and Technology in Education (2003-2005)
  


• University of California, Riverside (1998-2002)
  B.S., Computer Science (with honors)

EXPERIENCE

• Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science
  Assistant Professor (8/2009 to current)
  
  
• EdLab and the Gottesman Libraries
  Teachers College, Columbia University
  Head of Technology (8/2004 to 8/2009)
  


• TC Innovations, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Acting CTO, Senior Programmer (5/2002 to 8/2004)
  
  
• Datagenix, LLC
  Lead Applications Developer (10/2000 to 4/2002)
  
  
• Department of Earth Science, University of California, Riverside
  Student Assistant / Applications Developer (12/1998 to 3/2002)

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

• Cocciolo, A. (accepted). Can Web 2.0 Enhance Community Participation in an Institutional Repository? The case of PocketKnowledge at Teachers College, Columbia University. Journal of Academic Librarianship.
• Cocciolo, A., Mineo, C. & Meier, E. (accepted). Using Online Social Networks to Build Healthy Communities: A Design-based Research Investigation. ED-MEDIA 2010-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Toronto, Canada.
• Cocciolo, A. (2009, June). Using Speech Recognition Technology in the Classroom: An Experiment in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of the International conference on computer support for collaborative learning, June 2009, Rhodes, Greece.
• Mineo, C., Cocciolo, A. & Hakim, S. (2009, May). Designing an Online Social Network: Lessons Learned. Teachers College Educational Technology Conference, May 10-11, 2009, New York, NY.
• Cocciolo, A. (2008, December). Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (review). Teachers College Record.
• Cocciolo, H., Cocciolo, A., Hughes, B. & Natriello, G. (October 2008). When MySpace Meets D-Space: Building a Personal/Institutional Repository. EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.
• Cocciolo, A., Chae, H. & Natriello, G. (2007, March). Second Look: A Research Platform for Second Life. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
• Chae, H., Cocciolo, A., Hughes, B. & Natriello, G. (2007, March). Teaching the Levees: Creating an Online Resource to Facilitate Democratic Discourse and Civic Engagement. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
• Chae, H., Cocciolo, A. & Natriello, G. (2007, March). Evaluating Educational Multimedia in Web 2.0 Environments: The Case of TeacherTube. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
• Crocco, M., Grolnick, M., Gaudelli, W., Marri, A., Livingston, E., Cocciolo, A. (2007, November). Teaching "The Levees": Stimulating Democratic Dialogues on Race and Class. Annual Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Diego, CA.
• Cocciolo, A., Chae, H. & Natriello, G. (2007, October). Does Web 2.0 Matter? Investigating How Learning Environment Design Affects User Community Engagement. Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, October 2007, Vancouver, BC.
• Pittinsky, M., Chae, H., Cocciolo, A., Ross, A. & Angelo, T. (2007, July). E-Learning Systems as Research Platforms: Results fron the Networked Education Databse project. Blackboard World 2007, Boston, MA.
• Cocciolo, A., Chae, H. & Natriello, G. (2007, June).  Using Social Network Analysis to Highlight an Emerging Online Community of Practice.  International conference on computer support for collaborative learning, July 2007, New Brunswick, NJ.   
• Pittinsky, M., Cocciolo, A., & Chae, H. (2007, June). Using eLearning System to Scale-Up Educational Research: The Networked Education (NED) Project. International Conference on e-Learning, New York, NY.
• Natriello, G., Pittinsky, M. Chae, H. & Cocciolo, A. (2007, April). eLearning Systems as Research Platforms: Results from the Networked Education Database (NED) Project. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.
• Cocciolo, A. & Chae, H. (2007, February). Investigating Online Communities of Practice in a Web 2.0 Learning Environment. Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference 2007, Cambridge, MA.
• Natriello, G., Cocciolo, A., Hughes, B. & Chae, H.S. (2006, November). Creating a Collaborative Knowledge Network as a Foundation for a Distance Learning Community. Concurrent session at the The 12th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, FL.
• Natriello, G., Frank, J., Chae, H.S., Cocciolo, A., Hughes, B., Lin, L. Pereira, K. (2006). AERA Special Coverage. Teachers College Record.
• Cocciolo, A. (2005). Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making us Smarter (review). Teachers College Record, 108(1), 187-190.

SKILLS

• Research: Quantitative and qualitative methods. Proficient with statistical analysis tools such as SPSS, qualitative analysis tools such as NVIVO and network analysis tools such as UCINET.
• Programming: Familiar with most modern programming languages and environments, including Windows, Web and UNIX development environments. Windows experience: Visual C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET. UNIX experience: gcc/g++. Web development: PHP, JSP, Servlets, Perl, ASP, Python, Cold Fusion, Flash, ActiveScript. Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and DB2. Web servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat
  
• Design: Experienced web designer and proficient in Adobe Creative Suite.
  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science (graduate courses)
  • Spring 2009, LIS 697: Social Media
  • Spring 2009, LIS 665: Projects in Digital Archives
  • Fall 2009, LIS 693: Digital Libraries
  • Fall 2009, LIS 673: Library Use and Instruction
• Teachers College, Columbia University (graduate courses)
  • Fall 2007, HUDF 4000: Education and Public Policy, co-taught with Prof. G. Natriello
  • Summer 2006, HUDF 4010: The Sociology of Online Learning, co-taught with Prof. G. Natriello

RECENT PRESS

• Hill, C. (2007). Web 2.0 and Distance Education at Columbia's Teachers College. The Distance Education Report, 11(5), 5-8.
• Sapers, J. (2007). Library 2.0. TC Today: The Magazine of Teachers College, Columbia University, 31(2), 18-23.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
• The Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)
• International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

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