User:Norman Garrett
Norm Garrett is currently a professor of Computer Information Systems in the School of Business at Eastern Illinois University, where he teaches courses in programming, networking and management information systems. He has been an educator since starting his first teaching assignment at Tolleson Union High School in Tolleson, Arizona, in 1973. Since that time he has worked as a teacher and administrator at the high school, community college, and university levels. Among other duties, he has served as a high school athletic director, a community college dean, a university academic computing specialist, and as associate director of a university computer institute. He has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, a masters and a doctorate from Arizona State University, and a certificate from the University of Illinois as a Master Online Teacher. He loves to teach using a technologically hybrid approach.
In the private sector he has worked as a systems analyst, assembly language programmer, network administrator, and corporate CEO. He has extensive consulting experience in business information systems and has expertise in networking and telecommunications as well as several programming languages, software development, and educational technology. He has won numerous awards, has written 5 books and a variety of scholarly articles, and is listed in several editions of Who's Who, including Who's Who in Education and Who's Who in the Computer Industry.
His current research interests are in diffusion of innovations theory and network analysis in business. In addition, he frequently speaks and gives presentations on the topic of learning communities and collaborative environments.
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