{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-05T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:11:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna T. McFadden, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_0 et_pb_team_member et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/files\/2010\/03\/Anna2012.jpg\" alt=\"Anna T. McFadden, PhD\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/files\/2010\/03\/Anna2012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/files\/2010\/03\/Anna2012-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" class=\"wp-image-59\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Anna T. McFadden, PhD<\/h4><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description_content\"><p>Professor Emeritus, Educational Leadership, Department of Human Services<\/p>\n<p>Former Assistant Chief Information Officer and Director of Academic Engagement and IT Governance, Division of IT<\/p>\n<p>amcfadden@wcu.edu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_3 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/The-Social-Construction-of-Educational-Leadership\/Anna-Hicks-McFadden\/e\/9780820468129\">(2004). McFadden A. &amp; Smith. P. The social construction of educational leadership: Southern Appalachian ceilings. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthlightbooks.com\/products\/144.html\">(2004). McFadden A\u00a0 &amp; Cooper, K. Leave no angry child behind:\u00a0 The ABC\u2019s of anger management for grades k-12. . Chapin, SC: Youthlight, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atgstg01.sagepub.com\/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book5441\">(1996). Hicks, A. Speak softly and carry your own gym key:\u00a0 A female high school principal\u2019s guide to survival. Thousand Oaks, California: a joint publication of The National Association of Secondary School Principals and Corwin Press (in second printing)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selected \u00a0Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jolt.merlot.org\/vol6no1\/crow_0310.htm\">(2010) McFadden, A., Crow, R., Santo, I., LeBaron, J. &amp; Osborne, C. Switching gears: moving from eLearning to mLearning. <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jolt.merlot.org\/vol6no1\/crow_0310.htm\">Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 6(1), <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jolt.merlot.org\/vol6no1\/crow_0310.htm\">268-278.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/files\/2010\/03\/TheBraveNewWorldofeLearning1.pdf\">(2008) McFadden, A. &amp; LeBaron, J.. The brave new world of eLearning: a department\u2019s response to mandated change. <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/files\/2010\/03\/TheBraveNewWorldofeLearning1.pdf\">Journal of Interactive Learning Environments, 16(2), 143-156<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paws.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/documents\/francepaper_002.doc\">(2007). McFadden, A., LeBaron, J., Lofquist, B. &amp; Brown, P. <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/paws.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/documents\/francepaper_002.doc\">\"Reorganizing and consolidating faculty development to support online teaching and learning: One university's experience.\" Paper presented for the International Conference on Web-Based Education, Chamonix, France, March 16.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paws.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/documents\/IrelandIADIS_000.doc\">(2006).\u00a0 McFadden, A. &amp; LeBaron, J. \"Leadership for a forced march to e-Learning: Swimming to the other side of the gulf, \" Paper Presented for the International Association for the Development of the Information Society Conference. Dublin, Ireland, July 18<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aasa.files.cms-plus.com\/PDFs\/Publications\/JSP\/Summer06JSP_final.pdf\">(2006). McFadden, A. Enhancing communication skills in online courses in educational leadership.\u00a0<em>AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice. 3 <\/em>(2). 12-23.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/amcfadden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}