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 Jim Mazoué, Ph.D.

Distance Learning Coordinator

Assistant Professor, Educational Technologies

 

Distributed and Distance Learning Services

 

Center for Instructional Technology

 

Carrier Library 7D 

 

MSC 1702

 

James Madison University

 

Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807

 

E-mail: mazouejg@jmu.edu

 

Tel.: 540.568.2591

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Areas of Research Interest:     

 

American philosophy, epistemology, ethics, biomedical ethics, computer diagnosis, computer applications in teaching 

 

Ph.D., Tulane, 1983

 

Dissertation: "The Conceptual Translation of the Perceptual Flux in the Philosophy of William James." 

 


Publications

 

 

The JMU Faculty Summer Institute for Online Course Development: A Five-Year Summary of Results.” In Proceedings of E-Learn 2007: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education, Quebec City, Canada, October 15-19, 2007, edited by Theo Bastiaens and Saul Carliner, 1089-1092. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement in Computing in Education, 2007.

 

 

"Designing an Online Introductory Statistics Course," C. M. Harris, J. G. Mazoue, H. Hamdan, and A. R. Casiple, Best Practices in Teaching Statistics and Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences [with CD-ROM], Dunn, Dana S., Smith, Randolph A., Beins, Barney, Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, pp. 93-108.

 

Review.  Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course. Elbaum, B., McIntyre, C., and Smith, A. College and University Media Review. 2003.

 

"The Essentials of Effective Online Instruction," Campus-Wide Information Systems  16:3   104-110, 1999.

 

“Does Using Technology in Instruction Enhance Learning? A Response to Ed Neal,” Technology Source, August, 1998.

 

"Should Human Diagnosticians Be Replaced by Automated Diagnostic Systems?:Yes," in Controversial Issues in Mental Health, Stuart A. Kirk and Susan D. Einbinder, eds. New York: Brown & Allyn, 1994, pp. 58-65 & 78-79.

 

"Diagnosis Without Doctors" (with commentary), The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 15: 559-579, 1990.

 

"Self-Synthesis, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism," Logos, 11: 111-125, 1990.

 

"Self-Synthesis and Self-Knowledge," in Polrocznik Filozoficzny Mlodych, Piotr Boltuc, ed. (Warsaw: Warsaw University Press), 1987, pp. 11-27.

 

"Some Remarks on Luper-Foy's Criticism of Nozickian Tracking," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64: 206-212, 1986.

 

"Nozick on Inferential Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly 35: 191-193, 1985.

 

 

 

Citations to "Diagnosis Without Doctors"

 

 

The Arlington Institute

Robo-docs - (Salon - April 9, 2002)
Medical errors kill more people each year than auto accidents, breast cancer or AIDS. Can automating medicine prevent tragedies? One doctor declaiming loudly that something should and can be done to reduce errors is Atul Gawande, a surgical resident in Boston, a staff writer for the "New Yorker" and now the author of a new book, "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science." Computer-based diagnostic systems have been in existence some 30 years, and more than a decade ago a philosopher suggested that "diagnosis without doctors" would be an improvement over human-based systems.

 

 

Effects of Computer-based Clinical Decision Support Systems on Clinician Performance and Patient Outcome: A Critical Appraisal of Research,  Mary E. Johnston; Karl B. Langton; R. Brian Haynes; and Alix Mathieu, Annals of Internal Medicine 120(2) (1994), 135-142.

 

Speechless medicine?, Linus Geisler, Imago Hominis, Vienna 1997, volume IV/Nr. 1, P. 47-55 (in German)

 

After us the machine? The place of people in modern medicine, Linus Geisler, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 04.08.1993, Nr. 178, S. N4 (in German)

 

Who is afraid of the system? Doctors’ attitudes towards diagnostic systems, Jacobus Ridderikhoff and Bart van Herk, International Journal of Medical Informatics 53 (1999) 91–100. 

 


Diagnosis without doctors, Ivan Oransky, The Baltimore Sun, August 22, 1997, 19A.

 

 

Misdiagnosing Assessment, Mattaini MA, Kirk SA, Social Work 38 (2): 231 - 233, Mar 1993. 

 

The Medwise Diagnostic Module as a Consultant, Kerkhof PLM, Vandieijenvisser MP, Koenen R, et al., Expert Systems with Applications 6 (4): 433 - 440, Oct - Dec 1993. 

 

"A Soft Systems Methodology Model for Clinical Decision Support Systems"

 

"Physician Integration with IT"

 

"Computerized Decision Support Systems"

 

"Medical Historian Project Report"

 

"Decision Support Systems in Dentistry"

 

"Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Bibliography"

 

"Philosophy of Medicine"

 

Suggested Reading, SOWK 659 Interventions with the Chronically Mentally Ill, Department of Social Work, Loma Linda University

 

 

Online Citations to “The Essentials of Effective Online Instruction"

 

 

Learning in Cyberspace: Succession Law Online

 

 

 

Problem Based Learning online: making the technology work

 

 

 

Becoming an online teacher

 

 

The Practicum In The Internet Age: The use of WebCT to facilitate learning from School Experience

 

 

 

Evaluation of CMC in Education

 

 

"Courseware in academic library user education: a literature review from the GAELS Joint Electronic Library project"

 

 

"Optimal Information Foraging and Key Resources for Undergraduate Biology Students"

 

 

“Equal Opportunities for Networked Learners”

 

 

"Teaching an online information literacy course"

 

 

"Instructional Features of the Internet" (in Russian)

 

 

"Western approaches to the use of the internet in instruction" (in Russian)

 

 

"Computer Mediated Communication to Support an Online Learning Environment"

 

 

 

Online Citations to “Does Using Technology in Instruction Enhance Learning?”

 

 

 

“The Art and Science of Education: Pedagogy Includes Technology” 

   

 

Statewide Training Assessment, Ohio Child Welfare Training Program, Section IX, Bibliography

 

 

 

Instructional Technology Presentations

 

 

“Online Teaching: What Is It Really Like?,” Educational Technology Cooperative, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA, March 5-7, 2008.

 

Facing Technological and Contextual Evolution and Challenges: The Growth Trajectory of a Center for Instructional Technology,” EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional 2008, Baltimore, MD, January 15-17, 2008. With Andrea Adams, Sarah Cheverton, Christie Liu.

 

Support + Modeling + Community Building: The Growth Trajectory of a Center for Instructional Technology,” EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional 2008, Baltimore, MD, January 15-17, 2008. With Andrea Adams, Sarah Cheverton, Christie Liu.

 

"The JMU Faculty Summer Institute for Online Course Development: A Five-Year Summary of Results," Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Quebec City, Canada, October 16, 2007

 

 

"The E-Learning Challenge," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 6, 2007.

 

"Realigning Organizational Roles in Support of Social Technologies and Learning Communities," with Ralph Alberico, Mary Ann Chappell, Pavel Zemliansky, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting 2006, San Diego, CA, January 30, 2006.

 

"FITness: A Net Generation Model for Developing Information Fluency Among Faculty and Students", with Anne Moore, EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional 2006, Baltimore, MD, January 10, 2006.

 

"What Is the Best Model for Producing a Technology Transformed Faculty?,"  with Danny Adams and Darlene Williams, EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional 2005, Atlanta, GA, June 15, 2005.

 

"Summer Online Courses: A Novel Approach to Expanding Distance Learning Enrollments," with Ralph Alberico, EDUCAUSE 2004, Denver, CO, October 19-23, 2004. 

 

"A University-Wide Faculty Summer Institute," with Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St. Amant, Computers and Writing Online Conference 2004, May 27, 2004

 

Workshop for Creating an Online Introductory Statistics Course, with Charles Harris, Arlene Casiple, Hasan Hamdan, Best Practices in Teaching Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, Atlanta, GA, October 1-2, 2004

 

"Team Teaching an Online Introductory Statistics Course," with Charles Harris, Arlene Casiple, Hasan Hamdan, Best Practices in Teaching Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, Atlanta, GA, October 1-2, 2004

 

"Summer Online Courses: A Distance Learning Alternative for Traditional Campuses," with Sarah Cheverton, NERCOMP 2003, Boston, MA, March 18, 2003. 

 

"Supporting Distributed and Distance Learning Faculty," with Sharon Pitt, Sarah Cheverton, Julia Harbeck, EDUCAUSE 2001, Indianapolis, IN, October 31, 2001. 

 

"Building the New Orleans History Archive on the Internet: A Progress Report," Community College Humanities Association, Miami Beach, FL, October 28, 2000.

 

 “The Internet and Radiologic Technology,” Louisiana Society of Radiologic Technologists, New Orleans, LA, August 3, 2000

 

"On-Line Courses: Institutional Perspectives on Development and Implementation," Teaching in Higher Education Forum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 10, 2000

 

"Distance Education," LCTCS Mega In-Service Conference, Alexandria, Louisiana, November 9-10, 1999

 

"Computer-Mediated Instruction," Educational Applications of Technology, University of New Orleans, May 20, 1998

 

"The Essentials of Effective Online Instruction," Teaching in Higher Education Forum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 21, 1998

 

"Why You Should Put Your Classroom in a Computer," Teaching Using Technology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, April 16, 1998

 

"Using Microsoft Front Page98 to Create Web Sites," Teaching Using Technology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, March 26, 1998

 

"Instructional Applications Using Multimedia," University Computing and Communications-Strategic Technology Planning Implementation Group, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, December 3-4, 1996

 

 

 

 

 

Papers Read at Philosophy Conferences

 

 

"Exclusionary Property-Based Evaluation," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, OR, March, 1992.

 

"Three Bad Reasons Why It Would Be Good To Die," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, March, 1991.

 

"Diagnosis Without Doctors," Society for Health and Human Values, Washington, D.C., October, 1989.

 

"Why An Interest in Persons Doesn't Especially Matter," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL, April, 1989.

 

"Can a Meaningful Life Be Absurd?," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Cincinnati, OH, April, 1988.

 

"Unreliability and the Nullification of Effectiveness," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Miami, FL, March, 1988.

 

"Self-Synthesis and Self-Knowledge," International Conference of Young Philosophers, Jablonna, Poland, August 16- 23, 1987.

 

"What's Wrong with Unger's 'Radical Nihilism'?", Louisiana State Philosophy Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October, 1984.

 

"Nozick on Knowledge," Tulane University Philosophy Colloquium, New Orleans, LA, March, 1984.

 

Commentator, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, March, 1983.

 

"Dretske and Epistemic Contextualism," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Fort Worth, TX, April, 1982.

 

"Cognition and the Function of Activity in the Epistemology of C. I. Lewis," South Carolina Philosophical Association, Columbia, SC, March, 1982.

 

"The Importance of Physiology to the Philosophy of William James," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, PA, December, 1981.

 

"William James's Two Definitions of Truth," Alabama Philosophical Society, Tuscaloosa, AL, October, 1980.

 

 

 

 

Grants/Awards

 

 

Highly Commended Awards 2000, Literati Club, MCB University Press.

 

The City National Bank Award for Outstanding Presentation, "The Essentials of Effective Online Instruction," Teaching in Higher Education (THE) Forum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 21, 1998.

 

Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund Enhancement Grant: University of New Orleans Philosophy Department Academic Computing Laboratory, 1997-1998.

 

National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Indiana University (Director: Hector-Neri Castañeda), 1986.

 

 

 

 

Academic Appointments

 

 

 

2001 - Present 

James Madison University

 

1991 - Present

University of New Orleans

 

1990-1986

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

1986

Tulane University

 

1985

Eastern Kentucky University

 

1984

Tulane University

 

1983-1981

University of South Carolina, Columbia

 

1980

University of Alabama-Birmingham

 

  

 

Other Professional Experience

 

 

 

 

2001-Present

2004-2005

 

Electronic Campus of Virginia

Chair, Electronic Campus of Virginia

 

2000 - 2001

Microsoft Community and Technical College Advisory Council

 

1999 - 2001

Faculty Training Team, Louisiana Board of Regents

 

1999 - 2001

Director, Gail T. Jones Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Technology Academic Computing Director
Delgado Community College, New Orleans, Louisiana 

 

 

1995 - 1997

Ethics Committee, Lakeview Regional Medical Center, Covington, Louisiana.

 

1990 - 1986

Clinical Consultant in Medical Ethics, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

 

 

 

Courses I've Taught

 

Advanced Ethics

American Philosophy

Critical Thinking

Directed Readings

Epistemology

Ethics

Independent Study

Introduction to Philosophy

Medical Ethics

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Mind

Social Ethics

Symbolic Logic

 

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