{"id":6,"date":"2015-07-16T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/biographical-sketch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:56:12","slug":"biographical-sketch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/faculty-name\/biographical-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographical Sketch"},"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_4_4 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\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/files\/2015\/07\/Headshot.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/files\/2015\/07\/Headshot-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Headshot\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/files\/2015\/07\/Headshot-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/files\/2015\/07\/Headshot-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/files\/2015\/07\/Headshot.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Wade is the Senior Educational Technologist at Western Carolina University and serves as a support for the learning management system. His academic studies were in the humanities and have always included a connection to humans and their use of technology.\u00a0 His master's work at Vanderbilt University focused upon technology, sustainable development, and environmental ethics.\u00a0 He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas in the humanities with emphases in literature, aesthetic studies, and the philosophy of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan served as a faculty member at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama and Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas before joining the UNC system as a member of the faculty, a department chair, and a program director at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching.\u00a0 Since 2008, one of his primary areas of focus for K12 professional development has been exploring the best, most engaging, most innovative, and most effective uses of educational technology.\u00a0 In 2018-19,\u00a0 Jonathan served as the acting director for the Coulter Faculty Commons.\u00a0 In 2021, his position was moved to the Educational Technology Team in Academic Engagement and IT Governance.<\/p>\n<p>Being a part of the WCU Division of Technology gives Jonathan the opportunity to serve his adopted home of Western North Carolina by aiding the faculty and staff in accomplishing their mission to serve their students by creating learning experiences that help them become better citizens and life-long learners.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/jdwade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}