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Center for Technology Enhanced Learning

Locations & Hours

CTEL has four locations across all three campuses.

Director & Assistant

The main office for CTEL is located in 111 Abromson, Portland.

Barbara Stebbins, Interim CTEL Director
111 Abromson, Portland
(207) 780-4540
stebbins@usm.maine.edu

Robin Anne Russell
111 Abromson, Portland
Administrative Assistant
(207) 780-4077
ctel@usm.maine.edu

Both Barbara and Robin can be found Monday thru Friday on the Portland campus.

Course Designers

All of our Course Designers can help you design or redesign your online and blended courses. They can help you optimize your learning management system (Blackboard), suggest ways to make your content more accessible, coach you in use of technologies, and work with you to decide new ways to deliver your course content. They have all been trained in Quality Matters and are available to do brief course reviews or facilitate full reviews with QM mentors.

Scott Kimball, Course Designer
521 Glickman Library, Portland
2 Bailey Hall, Gorham
Instructional Media and Support Specialist
(207) 780-4238
scottk@maine.edu

Scott works on the Gorham campus Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and on the Portland campus Thursday and Friday.

Sue Goodrich, Course Designer
Lewiston-Auburn College
Instructional Technology Support Specialist
(207) 753-6673
goodrich@usm.maine.edu

Sue works at the Lewiston-Auburn College Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and on the Portland campus Fridays.  Sue does not work on Wednesday.

Barbara Stebbins, Interim CTEL Director, and Course Designer  
111D Abromson
(207) 780-4540
stebbins@usm.maine.edu

Barbara works on the Portland campus Monday thru Friday.

Emerging Technologies and BB2 Support

Shane is our resident Blackboard expert who watches the Helpdesk ticketing system to problem solve online learning difficulties. He has a broad knowledge of online learning technologies and is in charge of scheduling workshops of all kinds. If there is a topic you would think would be of general interest to online and blended teaching, contact Shane to make a suggestion.

Shane O'Hara, Online Learning Support Specialist
521 Glickman Portland
(207) 228-8001
sohara@usm.maine.edu

Shane works on the Portland campus Monday thru Friday