William J. Hunter
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology
1993—
Professor
Dean, School of Education
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: bill.hunter@uoit.ca
Education
- B.A. in English, Kent State University 1969
- Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Kent State University 1974
Bill Hunter is currently the dean of the School of Education
in Canada’s newest university: The University of Ontario
Institute of Technology. He was previously at The University
of Calgary where he served (at various times) as the
Director of the Educational Technology Unit, the Head of the
Department of Teacher Education and Supervision, the
Academic Coordinator for the Distance Delivery Unit in the
Graduate Division of Educational Research and the
Coordinator of the Educational Technology graduate area. He
is a past editor of the Canadian Journal of
Education. Bill has diverse research interests,
including educational telecommunications. For example, in
the mid 90’s he developed a practicum course for online
teachers and studied the kind of learning that was required
for success in online teaching environments. He is currently
interested in issues surrounding online security and the
implications these issues have for school curricula.
Bill was once a high school English teacher and has taught
for university departments of mathematics, nursing,
psychology and home economics. His career has included
positions in Ohio, Rhode Island, Nova Scotia, Alberta and
Ontario as well as sabbaticals in New York, Ireland and New
Zealand. He has conducted research on moral reasoning, on
the uses of computers in teaching and learning and on a
variety of measurement issues and problems. He has also
published a chapter on case-based teaching arising from his
experience as the coach of a University of Calgary student
team that took first place in an international competition
held at the University of Virginia. Mainly, though, he is a
proud grandfather——don’t get him started.
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