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urks Oakley II is an Associate Vice President for Academic
Affairs at the University of Illinois.
His areas of interest include distance education, outreach, and instructional
technologies on all three campuses of the University of Illinois (Chicago,
Springfield, Urbana-Champaign).
Oakley also holds appointments as a professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, in the Departments of Computer
Science and Management
Information Systems at the University of Illinois at Springfield,
and in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and the School
of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
Through his innovative use of technology in teaching, Professor
Oakley has earned a national reputation as a practitioner and promoter
of Internet-based asynchronous learning environments. In the
past two years, he has given more
than one hundred invited talks at national conferences and on
university campuses.
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 Dr.
Oakley continues to inspire faculty and administrators as director
of the University of
Illinois Online initiative, a program designed to facilitate
the development and delivery of University of Illinois courses,
degrees, and public service resources over the Internet. Oakley's
other major projects include the Illinois
Online Network and the Illinois
Virtual Campus.
Oakley received his B.S. degree from Northwestern
University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his teaching
and for his innovative use of technology in education, including
the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from UIUC
in 1993, the Outstanding Teacher Award from the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 1993, the Educom
Medal in 1996, the Educational Activities Board Major Educational
Innovation Award from the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1996, the
Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE
Education Society in 1998, and the Third Millennium Medal from
the IEEE in 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of
the ASEE, and a former Vice President of the ASEE.
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