Dr. Edmund Hansen
Director, Center for Teaching & Learning

e-hansen@neiu.edu

About Edmund

Edmund is both the director of the CTL and the project director of NEIU’s Title V grant, which focuses on improvements for General Education.  He supervises the three main areas of the Center, which include Assessment, Curriculum & Teaching, and Instructional Technology.

He has been the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Northeastern Illinois University since its inception in 2001.  Before joining NEIU, he worked in faculty development for over twelve years, half of that time at Indiana University in Bloomington, the other half at Emporia State University in Kansas.  In Emporia, he was the founding director of the Teaching Enhancement Center and also an assistant professor in the psychology department.  Edmund is the current president of the Chicago Area Faculty Development Network (CAFDN).  He has published articles and book chapters related to the improvement of college teaching, including the integration of instructional technology into the classroom.  He has also been involved in the production of several award-winning videos on teaching and learning in college.  He is originally from Germany, where he worked in adult education. 

Edmund received his first Master’s degree in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Aachen, Germany.  He then moved to the United States and received another Master’s degree in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  His doctorate degree is in Educational Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington.