Contact Us

The Instructional Technology Group staff can be contacted via e-mail, phone or in person. Stop by our office in Walker, Suite 403. When you step off the elevator take a left to reach us.

Kimberly Hall, Director
Kimberly Hall has been at Emerson since 2001.  She has over 15 years combined experience with teaching, administrative work, and educational technology in higher education. Prior to Emerson she had worked with faculty on integrating technology into the curriculum at Northeastern University and San Diego State University. She has also taught English as a Second Language for academic purposes at SDSU and was an advisor to international students applying to American graduate schools.

Her work in educational technology has been a collective of projects within the arts; humanities; social sciences; health sciences and education. She's also designed, developed, and evaluated instructional technology products for the National Park Service, GTE Internetworking, the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and has taught ESL in Japan. She holds an M.A. in History and an M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Law, Policy and Society from Northeastern University. Her research focuses on gender and higher education and technology and gender.

Peter Hess, Instructional Designer
For almost nine years prior to coming to Emerson, Peter was at MIT, working as Faculty Liaison within an innovative international distance education partnership known as the Singapore-MIT Alliance. Before his MIT employment, Peter worked at Brandeis as Technology Coordinator and at Ithaca College as Assistant Director of Academic Computing. All three of these jobs had in common working closely with faculty members to facilitate effective use of technology in instruction.  Before getting hooked on computing, Peter worked in TV production and studio engineering.

Among Peter's other professional activities are an active involvement in NERCOMP (New England Regional Computing Program), where he recently chaired the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment track for their 2009 conference. Also, he was the founder of, and is still actively involved in, the Education Technology Group, an informal learning and support organization for colleagues who work with instructional technology at campuses in and around Boston.

Outside of work related activities, Peter's time is spent with his wife, Sheree, and their three children.

Monty Kaplan, Instructional Technologist
Monty brings to Emerson over four years of work and study at Clark University. In the Academic Technology office, Monty helped students use instructional technology while also building web applications that met faculty teaching needs. Projects included a classroom database to identify suitable teaching spaces and a clicker registration system that helps professors track student participation. As part of the Clark web team, Monty helped develop the university’s website with contributions to web standards compliance, visual styles, and content accuracy. He brings to Emerson skills in web design, graphic design, and experience with instructional technology in higher education from both the student and faculty perspectives.

A Watertown native, Monty is excited to be working at the Campus on the Common. Drawn to Emerson’s strengths in fields that demand creativity, he sees life at Emerson as a challenge and opportunity to do great work. He enjoys teaching as much as learning and is fascinated by disruptive technology. Outside the office he reads about web start-ups and explores music blogs to discover the next radio smash hit.