Charles Morgan Reigeluth

Biography

Education
A.B. cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, 1969.
Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology from Brigham Young University, 1977.

Position
Professor Emeritus, Instructional Systems Technology Dept., School of Education, Indiana University.  

Management Experience
1991 - 1993: Chair, Instructional Systems Technology Department, Indiana University.
1987 - 1988: Chair, Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation Program, Syracuse Univ.
1983 - 1985: President and CEO, Renaissance Learning Systems, Inc. Started and ran a $300,000 company with about six employees.

Project Management Experience
Project director on 8 projects and principal investigator on 2 others, including:
Project Director on a project to facilitate a systemic change effort in the Indianapolis Metropolitan School District of Decatur in Indiana, 2001-2012.
Project Director on a contract to facilitate a systemic change effort at the Eastern Green County Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, 1995-1996.
Project Director on a contract to facilitate a restructuring effort at the Schmitt Elementary School in Columbus, IN, 1994.
Project Director on a contract to facilitate a restructuring effort at the Perry Worth Elementary School in Lebanon, IN, 1992-1993.
Project Director on a contract to conduct a national survey of schools involved in systemic restructuring for the Indiana Department of Education, 1989-91.
Project Director on a contract to develop recommendations for approach, features, scope and sequence for a new K-6 science curriculum for Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986.
Project Director on a contract for Motorola Corp. to perform task and content analyses and design the scope and sequence for a course on project planning for low-level managers, 1984.
Project Director on an Army SSP contract to synthesize existing knowledge about instructional design into an optimal set of procedures, 1981-2.

Academic Focus Areas
Instructional Systems Design:  An instructional theory base for designing learner-centered instruction.
Instructional Technology:  Utilization of advanced technologies for learner-centered instruction.
Educational Systems Design:  A systems design approach to transforming education.

Activities Related to Instructional Systems Design
Developed several instructional theories, including the elaboration theory and simulation theory.
Consulted on instructional systems design for numerous corporations and agencies, including IBM, Motorola, Air Force Human Resources Lab, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Holt Rinehart & Winston, and Hewlett Packard.
Presented seminars on instructional systems design for corporations, higher education institutions, and other agencies, including AT&T, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ISC Educational Systems, Columbia Teachers College, Indiana Department of Education, Canadian Centre for Learning Systems, Universidad de Navarra (Spain), and Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico).
Developed five learner-centered educational software programs.

Honors
Award for "Outstanding Book of the Year" from AECT (Assoc. for Educational Communications and Technology) for six books: 1985, 1988, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2020.  
Award for “Outstanding Journal Article” from AECT for three articles: 2009, 2010, 2020.
Award for “Outstanding Journal Article” from AERA for two articles in 2010.
Award for outstanding article in Performance Improvement Quarterly from NSPI (now ISPI – International Society for Performance Improvement), 1992.
Honored Alumni Award from Brigham Young University’s School of Education, 2002.
Distinguished Service Award from AECT (Assoc. for Educational Communications & Technology), 2001.

Publications
Thirteen books, over 60 chapters in edited books, over 120 articles in professional journals, and 5 educational software programs.  Books include six award-winning books:
Reigeluth, C.M., & Karnopp, J.R. (2020).  Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency-Based Education.  Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Reigeluth, C.M., & Karnopp, J.R. (2013).  Reinventing Schools: It’s Time to Break the Mold.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Reigeluth, C.M., & Carr-Chellman, A. (Eds.)  (2009).  Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume III: Building a Common Knowledge Base.  New York: Routledge. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9647.2011.00772.x
Reigeluth, C.M. (Ed.) (1999).  Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume II: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory.  Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum Associates.
Reigeluth, C.M. (Ed.) (1987).  Instructional Theories in Action: Lessons Illustrating Selected Theories and Models.  Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum Associates.
Reigeluth, C.M. (Ed.) (1983).  Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume I: An Overview of their Current Status.  Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum Associates.
Other books and articles include:
Reigeluth, C.M., & An, Y.  (2021).  Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory: The Holistic 4D Model.  New York, NY: Routledge.
Reigeluth, C.M., Beatty, B.J., & Myers, R.D.  (Eds.)  (2017).  Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV: The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education.  New York: Routledge.
Leshin, C.B., Pollock, J., and Reigeluth, C.M. (1992).  Instructional Design Strategies and Tactics.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Reigeluth, C.M., and Schwartz, E. (1989).  An instructional theory for the design of computer-based simulations.  Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 16(1), 1-10.
Reigeluth, C.M., Aslan, S., Chen, Z., Dutta, P., Huh, Y., Jung, E., Lee, D., Lin, C-Y., Lu, Y-H., Min, M., Tan, V., Watson, S.L., & Watson, W.R.  (2015).  PIES: Technology functions for the learner-centered paradigm of education.  Journal of Educational Computing Research, 53(3), 459-496.

Presentations
Over 100 presentations at national conferences, including: “Technology's Role in Restructuring”  (keynote address for the Technology Leadership Network annual meeting of the National School Boards Assoc.), “An Instructional Theory to Facilitate Causal Understanding” and “Cognitive Task Analysis: Recent Advances in Automation and Verification” (American Educ. Research Assoc.), “Instructional Development Services to Public Schools” and “Sequencing and Integrating Cognitive Strategies with Subject-matter Content” (Assoc. for Educ. Commun. and Technology).

Workshops
Over 10 workshops, including a 1-day workshop on “The Elaboration Theory: Prescriptions for Task/Content Analysis” at AECT; a 2-day workshop on “How to Improve Education” at the Canadian Centre for Learning Systems in Calgary, Alberta (Canada); and a 2-day workshop on "Designing Instruction to Facilitate Learning and Problem Solving Skills" for the Office of Minority Student Affairs at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY; a workshop on “Curriculum Building from the Ground Up” for AT&T in Cincinnati, OH; and two workshops on “Instructional Systems Primer” and “Advanced Concepts in ID” related to the Army Learning Concept 2015.

Consulting
About 20 contracts, including Transport Canada Training Institute in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada: advised on the use of the Elaboration theory for designing a new curriculum to train air traffic controllers; MEI Associates in Lexington, MA, and Air Force Human Resources Lab in San  Antonio, TX: advised on the design of specifications for the Advanced Instructional Design Advisor (AIDA), an instructional design expert system under development by the AFHRL; Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York, NY: advised on instructional strategies for training programs; and Air Force Human Resources Lab in Dayton, OH: advised on instructional strategies for complex problem solving.

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Instructional Systems Design:  An instructional theory base for designing learner-centered instruction.
Instructional Technology:  Utilization of advanced technologies for learner-centered instruction.
Educational Systems Design:  A systems design approach to transforming education.

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