Barbara B. Lockee

  • Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Instructional Design & Technology, Virginia Tech
  • Professor of Instructional Design & Technology, Virginia Tech
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Office of Distance Learning, Virginia Tech

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orcid.org/0000-0001-7108-4529

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Past Positions

Faculty Fellow, Office of Faculty Affairs, Virginia Tech

2018–2022

Associate Professor of Instructional Technology, Virginia Tech

2001–2007

Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, Virginia Tech

–2001
Biography

Barbara B. Lockee is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Instructional Design & Technology in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. Her scholarship centers on instructional design, distance/online learning, and faculty/professional development, with a focus on quality in technology‑mediated learning. She has served as Past President of AECT and currently serves as Vice President for Education of IAFOR. She earned a BA (1986) and MA (1991) from Appalachian State University and a PhD (1996) from Virginia Tech.

Research Interests
  • Learning Communities
  • Message Design in Instruction
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2021
Online education in the post-COVID era

Nature Electronics • Journal

Barbara B. Lockee

Reflecting on rapid pivots to remote instruction during COVID‑19, the article distinguishes emergency responses from well‑designed online learning and argues that the innovations, investments, and practices developed during the pandemic could permanently influence how education is delivered. It highlights the need for intentional design, infrastructure, and support ecosystems for sustainable online education beyond crisis conditions.

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