Ronald (Ron) E Anderson

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Contact Info:
Department of Sociology, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: (952) 473- 5910
rea@umn.edu

Ron Anderson is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, having served on the faculty since 1968. His legacy includes seven books, over 100 articles, 150 presentations at professional meetings, 15 large research grants, over 50 smaller research projects, and at least 40 consulting positions, many of which were evaluations of technology interventions in education. He continues to conduct research and to write articles and books.

His most visible professional accomplishments were the completion of several very large research projects on the role of information technology in education. This include the 1998 TLC project with Hank Becker; reports are available at www.crito.uci.edu/tlc/ . The results of another large project of innovative cases of teaching with techology, with Sara Dexter, can be found at http://edtechcases.info/ . In addition, he has been very active in the large international project of IEA called the Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES) between 1997 and 2007. In that capacity he coordinated research in over 20 countries and otherwise facilitated international communication and comparisons.

For 18 years Professor Anderson has been Co-Editor of the Social Science Computer Review . And he is on the editorial boards of three academic journals on technology and education. He was director of the Minnesota Center for Survey Research in the 1980s and since then has conducted several large national surveys.

Currently he is working on the analysis of cross-national data on human and child well-being and relating them to to national policies. He expects to complete a book on this during the coming year.

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