Shirley Shmerling

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: 413-577-0917

Email: sshmerling@isenberg.umass.edu

Office: Isenberg 332

Education:

Ph.D., University of MA, Amherst, 1994
M.S., Israel Institute of Technology, 1987
B.S., Israel Institute of Technology, 1985

Research/Teaching Interests:

Management & Governance of Information Systems, Strategic Management of Innovation & Technology, Mobile & Social Technologies, Business Analytics and Knowledge Management, Virtual Teams, On-line Education and Technology Supported Learning

Selected Publications:

Shmerling, S. & Peters, L.M.L. 2012. Virtual Teaming in Online Education: Does It Work? In Wang, S. and Harrison, Y. (Eds.), Cases on Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Online Learning: Opportunities and Practices. IGI Global Publishing. Pgs. 1-18.

Peters, L., Shmerling, S., & Karren, R. 2011. Constructivist Pedagogy in Asynchronous Online Education: Examining Proactive Behavior and the Impact on Student Engagement Levels. International Journal on E-Learning, 10(3): 311-330.

Shmerling, S. & Moyano Camihort, K. 2011. Models for Effective Collaborative Learning: Student-to-Student Mentoring. NEFDC Exchange, 22(2): 11-15.

Peters, L. & Shmerling, S. 2010. E-Teaching: Building Successful Virtual Team in Higher Education Courses. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, AACE. Pgs. 1153-1160.

Agha, A.I. & Shmerling, S. 1996. Incorporating Facet-Inducing Inequalities into Graphical-Construct-Based Lagrangean Relaxation Methodologies. Operations Research Letters 18: 177-84.