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Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1969
Professional Experience
- Award for best paper in Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1987
- Guest editor, Management Communication Quarterly, special issue on writing research
- Invited member, White House Conference on Productivity, Preconference on Private Sector Initiatives, April-October, 1983
- Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Research Interests
Research interests most generally stated are in the
interaction of an individual with text and graphic
information. This includes the process of designing the
information (production process) as well as the use of the
information in both learning and in job aiding. Specific
research areas have been the design of instructional texts,
analysis of adult literacy requirements, the development of
adult literacy instructional strategies, the design of online
help systems, and the design of hypermedia learning
environments.
The last two areas dominate my current
activities. The work in online help has involved extensive
collaboration with designers in the computer industry and
has included the development of conceptual models to guide
design practice as well as computer systems to aid the
development of prototypes. The work in hypermedia
learning environments is grounded in functional context
theory. The work involves the development of an enriched
learning environment that will aid the student in recognizing
multiple perspectives in the transfer of classroom concepts
to the real world of use.
Facilities
State-of-the-art video production and computer facilities in
Learning Resources and the Center for Excellence in Education.
Representative Publications
Duffy, T. M., & Palmer, J., & Mehlenbacher, B. (1993).
Online Help Systems: Design and Evaluation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Duffy, T. M., Lowyck, J., & Jonassen, D. (Ed.) (1993).
Designing Environments for Constructive Learning. Heidelberg: Germany. Springer Verlag.
Duffy, T.M., & Jonassen, D. (Ed.) (1992).
Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: A Conversation. Englwood, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Duffy, T., Higgins, L., Mehlenbacher, B., Cochran, C., Wallace, D., Burnett, R., Haugen, D., Hill, C., McCaffrey, B., Schwartz, H., Sloane, S., & Smith, S. (in press) Models for the design of instructional text.
Reading Research Quarterly.
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