Dr. Steve Yuen is a professor of Instructional Technology program in the Department of Technology Education. He joined USM in 1984 and has taught over thirty different graduate and undergraduate courses on a wide-variety of technically-advanced subjects. He enjoys teaching and believes that learning should be challenging, stimulating, interesting, and rewarding. As a believer of using technology in the classrooms, he has adopted various instructional technologies to provide effective teaching and learning.
Anthony Calabrese, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with Forrest General. He completed his graduate studies in psychology at New York University and the University of Southern Mississippi. 
Jessica White is a senior business technology education major from Columbia, Mississippi. She moved to Columbia from San Antonio, Texas, several years ago with her family. Jessica’s elementary and middle school experiences led her to desire to be a teacher. Her elementary and middle school teachers were so caring and willing to help every student that Jessica decided she would like to do the same for students someday. The only question she could not answer was which subject area she would prefer to teach.Dr. Steve Yuen
Dr. Steve Yuen is a professor of Instructional Technology program in the Department of Technology Education. He joined USM in 1984 and has taught over thirty different graduate and undergraduate courses on a wide-variety of technically-advanced subjects. He enjoys teaching and believes that learning should be challenging, stimulating, interesting, and rewarding. As a believer of using technology in the classrooms, he has adopted various instructional technologies to provide effective teaching and learning. Dr. Yuen has developed many computer-based tutorials, multimedia instructional presentation modules, class Web sites, instructional videos, online blogs, podcasts, social networks, and definitive wikis for his courses.
Dr. Yuen believes that teaching and research are not independent endeavors, but rather are synergetic processes. He believes his research has enriched his teaching. It has helped him stay abreast of current technology and its development but also exposes him to fresh ideas and thinking. Dr. Yuen has published extensively in international/national referred journals, written grant proposals, conducted seminars and workshops, and presented over 170 papers at international/national/state conferences. For the past five years, he has engaged in several mobile learning (m-learning) research projects involving personal digital assistants (PDA), digital media players (iPods and MP3s), and other mobile handheld devices.
Dr. Yuen has great interest in mobile learning and believes it will be a major extension of e-learning. His current research interests focus on mobile computing for learning and instruction, e-learning 2.0 communities, educational technologies for new generations, Web 2.0 and social computing for learning, and virtual communities. Currently, he is completing a book chapter “Mobile Learning” in the book, Instructional Technology, focusing on the research, development, and applications of instructional technology in the 21th century. The book is scheduled to publish in August 2008 by the China Renmin University Press and will be used by graduate students, researchers, teachers and educators, as well as government policy makers in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In addition, he is co-editing a book, Collective Intelligence and E-Learning 2.0: Implications of Web-Based Communities and Networking, which is scheduled to be published by IGI Global in February 2009.
During his tenure at USM, Dr. Yuen received a distinguished Senior Fulbright Scholar award in 1992, won two USM Excellence in Teaching Awards in 1997 and 2004, received the Aubrey Keith Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence Awards in 1997, 2000, and 2003, won three USM Summer Improvement of Instructional Grant awards in 1995, 1999, and 2004; and gained the opportunity to further promote his research with three Summer Faculty Research Grant Awards in 1988, 1993, and 1998. Also, Dr. Yuen was named 2002 Mississippi Technology Educator of the Year by Mississippi Educational Computing Association. He won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the Sixth Annual Teaching in Higher Education Forum in Baton Rouge in 2003 and was the third place winner of IHL Technology Application Competition in 1996. In 2005, he received the USM Mentoring Award as well as the College of Education and Psychology Service Award.
Dr. Yuen has held numerous officer positions and committee memberships at international/national/state levels. He was the past president of Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (CAERDA), the Founding President of Society of International Chinese in Educational Technology (SICET), as well as a board of director of Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA). Dr. Yuen has experience in all aspects of instructional technology and has served as a technology consultant to a university in Hong Kong as well as two local school districts. He is the co-editor of International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning (IJTTL) and has served on the editorial boards of Global Chinese Journal on Computers in Education, Occupational Education Forum, and International Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Also, Dr. Yuen served as the Scientist Reviewer of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant program application from the U.S. Department of Education and was the Judge of Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2003.