UNC School of Education

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

T 919.843.3003
F 919.962.1533
hannum@unc.edu

111 Peabody Hall
CB 3500

Wallace Hannum is the coordinator of the Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation Program and associate director for technology of the National Research Center on Rural Education Support. His research focuses on applying learning theory to the design of instruction, especially instruction delivered by technology.

Hannum’s focus has been on the design of effective instructional programs whether in public schools, corporations, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, international agencies or foreign governments. His work integrates empirical research on learning with processes for improving organizational effectiveness. His goal remains improving human competence and capability through appropriate education.

He is the principal designer of the procedures that guide education and training in the military services, the Internal Revenue Service and several large corporations in the computing and telecommunications field. He has served on advisory boards for federal agencies and has provided guidance to numerous multinational corporations on management education and work force development. His work with education not only in this country but also in Africa, Asia and Latin America focuses on improving education through effective instruction that is often distributed via appropriate technology to learners.

Hannum has consulted on the use of technology for professional development with many organizations, both public and private. He has created a statewide online program for professional development of teachers. He has participated in the design and implementation of numerous technology-based programs and projects. He has created standards and guidelines for educational programs and instructional technology use as well as taught numerous workshops to enable organizations to make effective use of technology for instructional purposes. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on topics related to technology and instructional design. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

His research and development work focuses on instructional uses of technology, especially distance education. He is interested in using technology to benefit those located at a distance from metropolitan centers and improving life in rural areas through education that is distributed via appropriate technology to local audiences. He has worked with distance education not only in this country but also in Africa and Latin America.

Hannum has consulted on the use of technology for professional development with many organizations, both public and private. He has participated in the design and implementation of numerous technology-based programs and projects. He has created standards and guidelines for technology use as well as taught numerous workshops to enable organizations to make effective use of technology for instructional purposes. He has created a statewide online program for professional development of teachers.

The author of five books and numerous articles on topics related to technology and instructional design, Hannum also serves as associate director for technology of the National Research Center on Rural Education Support.

• National Research Center on Rural Education Support

• Ph.D. 1973 – Florida State University
  
• M.Ed. 1968 – Auburn University
  
• B.A. 1966 – Auburn University

• Instructional Design
• Distance Learning and Technology
• Research Overview

• Instructional Theories
• Instructional Design

• Associate Director, INTRAH, School of Medicine, funded by a $88 million contract with the Agency for International Development.
• Associate Director for Technology, National Research Center on Rural Education Support, funded by a $10 million contract with the Institute for Education Sciences, United States Department of Education.

• Member, American Educational Research Association
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education
• Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
• Member, Committee on Training Standards, USAID
• Advisory Board, Graduate School, USDA

Hannum, Wallace (2005). Instructional systems development: A thirty year retrospective. Educational Technology, 45(4), 5-21.

Hannum, Wallace (2002). Transforming the Scholarly Process through Information Technology. New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 90, 19-28.

Hannum, W.H. (2002). Technology in the Learning Process. In Robert Diamond (Ed.) Field Guide to Academic Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Hannum, W.H. (2002). Il Knowledge management : come aiutare i docenti a migliorare il lavoro. Tecnologie Didattiche, 26(2), 14-17.

Hannum, W.H. (2001). The physics of the Roller Coaster: Learning Physics Through Simulation. Educational Technology, 41(1), 25-35.

Hannum, Wallace; Farmer, Tom; Veal, William; Barber, James; and Banks, Jonathan (2006). Analysis of distance education use in rural schools. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 7-11, 2006.

Hannum, Wallace (2006) Evaluation of distance education in Orthodontics. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Dental Education Association, Orlando, March 8-11, 2006.

Hannum, Wallace and King, Robert (2005). “Problem-based collaborative learning: A study in the design and evaluation of a peer-to-peer professional development model. Paper presented at the International Conference on Capacity Building for technology Integration in Teaching and Learning. June 1-4, 2005. Hong Kong, China.

Hannum, Wallace and Barber, James (2005). Building capacity for using technology in rural education through distance learning. Paper presented at the International Conference on Capacity Building for technology Integration in Teaching and Learning. June 1-4, 2005. Hong Kong, China.

King, Robert and Hannum, Wallace (2004). Distributed Service Learning: An Inter-Institutional Model for Collaboration. Paper presented at the Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, March 17-19, 2004, Charlotte, NC.

Hannum, Wallace and Muhuhu, Pauline (2003). Ensuring the Effectiveness of Training by Using a Performance Improvement Approach. Paper presented at the Training in Africa: Best Practices, Lessons Learned and Future Directions Conference, August 2003, Lusaka, Zambia.

Hannum, Wallace (2003). Essential Learning Methodology. Paper presented at the Training in Africa: Best Practices, Lessons Learned and Future Directions Conference, August 2003, Lusaka, Zambia.

Hicks, Steve and Hannum, Wallace (2003). Cost and Results Analysis to Support Selection and Evaluation of Training Approaches in Africa. Paper presented at the Training in Africa: Best Practices, Lessons Learned and Future Directions Conference, August 2003, Lusaka, Zambia.