Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center

Anthony G. Picciano is a professor of education leadership at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the PhD Program in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has also held graduate faculty appointments in Interactive Pedagogy and Technology, and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the CUNY Online BA Program in the CUNY School of Professional Studies. He has held several senior administrative appointments at the City University and State University of New York including Senior Vice President for Administration at Hunter College and Executive Director of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

   Dr. Picciano started his career working with computer systems in the late 1960s. He taught his first college-level course in computer programming and systems analysis in 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved with developing computer facilities, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) laboratories, and data networks at the City University of New York. He started teaching online in 1996.

   In 1998, Picciano co-founded CUNY Online, a multimillion-dollar initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provided support to faculty using the Internet for course development. He was a founding member and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Consortium).

    Picciano’s research interests are education leadership, education policy, Internet-based teaching and learning, and multimedia instructional models. He has led major research projects funded by the United States Department of Education, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. With Jeff Seaman, he has conducted major national studies on the extent and nature of online and blended learning in American K–12 school districts. From 2017-2019, he worked with Abt Associates on a grant-funded project to conduct a meta-analysis on Using Instructional Technology to Support Postsecondary Classroom Instruction for the U.S. DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences for its What Works Clearinghouse Series. He has authored numerous articles and frequently speaks and presents at conferences on education and technology. He has edited eleven journal special editions and has authored or co-authored twenty-one books including:

          Is Online Technology the Hope in Uncertain Times for Higher Education? (2024, Education  Sciences).

Data Analytics and Adaptive Learning: Research Perspectives. (2024, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-authors: Patsy Moskal and Charles.Dziuban.

The computer wasn’t in the basement anymore:  My fifty + years in education technology (1970-2021).  (2022, Bookbaby Publishers).  Editor: Elaine

Bowden.

Blended learning:  Research Perspectives, Volume 3.  (2022,  Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Co-authors: Charles.Dziuban, Charles Graham, and Patsy

Moskal.

Our bathtub wasn’t in the kitchen anymore.  (2020, Bookbaby Publishers).  Novel published under the pen name:  Gerade DeMichele.

The community college in the post-recession reform era:  Aims and outcomes of a decade of  experimentation. (2020, Routledge/Taylor & Francis,

Publishers). Co-author:  Chet Jordan. 

CUNY’s First Fifty Years: Triumphs and Ordeals of a People’s University. (2018, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-author: Chet Jordan.

Conducting Research in Online and Blended Learning Environments: New Pedagogical Frontiers (2016, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-authors: Charles

Dziuban, Charles Graham and Patsy Moskal.

Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2 (2014, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-authors: Charles Dziuban and Charles Graham.

The Great Education-Industrial Complex: Ideology, Technology, and Profit (2013, Routledge/Taylor & Francis). Co-author: Joel Spring.

Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, 5th Edition (2010, Pearson)

Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 1 (2007, The Sloan Consortium). Co-author: Charles Dziuban.

Data-Driven Decision Making for Effective School Leadership (2006, Pearson).

Distance Learning: Making Connections across Virtual Space and Time (2001, Merrill/Prentice Hall).

Educational Research Primer (2004, Continuum).

   Picciano was elected to the inaugural class of the Sloan Consortium’s Fellows in recognition of “outstanding publications that have advanced the field of online learning.” He was the 2010 recipient of the Sloan Consortium’s National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Online Education by an Individual.

Visit Dr. Picciano’s website at: http://anthonypicciano.com