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Dr. Ron McBride
- mcbride@nsula.edu
- Retired Faculty, M.Ed. & Ed.S. Educational Technology
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1990 Ed.S., Georgia State University, 1982 M.Ed., Northwestern State University, 1973 M.A., Northwestern State University, 1972 B.A., Northwestern State University, 1970
Major: Communications and Media Management
Major: Library Science/Media Production
Major: Educational Media
Major: Design
Major: Art Education
Dr. Ron McBride is the Melba Law Steeg Endowed Chair for Educational Technology Leadership, Professor of Educational Technology and coordinator of the graduate program in Educational Technology in the College of Education and Human Development. He has 29 years of experience in higher education and 8 at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. He holds a Ph. D in Communications/Instructional Media Management from Georgia State University.
His specialty is distance learning with 24 years of experience as a pioneer and award winning manager of distance education programs and professor in the field. While at the Louisiana School he directed the building of the nation’s largest distance education program for rural schools a forerunner to the Louisiana Virtual High School. He was director of the first distance learning program at Northwestern and head of the department of Journalism prior to moving to Educational Technology. He has taught fine arts studio courses, art history and appreciation, journalism courses including broadcasting, and several courses in Educational Technology. While department head in Journalism, he directed the building of the new television studio, radio station and created NSU 22, the university’s cable television channel.
He is active at the national level in SITE, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, an international organization where he is co-chair of the Information Technology Council that includes 14 special interest groups. Ron McBride has almost 50 journal articles and presentations and a book chapter. He has produced dozens of learning materials in several formats and received the Gold Medal in 1994 (silver in 1995) from the New York Festivals International Non-Broadcast Media competition as executive producer for the nation’s best science program, Science, Out of This World, delivered via satellite to hundreds of middle school students. His passion and research interests include distance education, integrating technology and its applications into teaching strategies, and preparing teachers and administrators to be technology advocates.