Education Professor Awarded the 2020 AECT Distinguished Service Award

Michael Simonson, Ph.D., Professor, in the Department of Education, at NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice has been awarded the 2020 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Distinguished Service Award.

This is the highest award given by AECT and honors contributions and accomplishments impacting the field of educational communications and technology and related fields. The award recognizes Dr. Simonson’s work with the AECT conference proceedings for the past 40 years.

Dr. Simonson has authored four major textbooks dealing with distance education, instructional technology, instructional computing, and instructional media. He has over 200 scholarly publications and is an editor of two academic journals. His current area of research interest is the diffusion of distance education in organizations.