Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D.

As Senior Fellow at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Education (GPE), Gail serves as lead faculty for the eLearning and Instructional Design concentration within the Master of Education program.  She is on the Faculty Academic Council, serves as a faculty liaison for experiential learning and online portfolios within the College of Professional Studies, and is a member of the "Pedagogically-Sound, Technologically-Savvy" faculty peer learning group.

Before joining Northeastern, Gail served as Associate Dean of Graduate and Professional Programs at Emmanuel College, and before that as Interim Director and Associate Director of Academic Technology at Simmons College.  While at Simmons, she spearheaded the Sloan-funded Blended Learning Initiative and fostered curricular innovation through her work with digital storytelling and other emerging technologies.  Prior to Emmanuel and Simmons, Gail was on the faculty of George Mason University's Institute for Educational Transformation, Projects Manager for Northeastern University's EdTech Center, and Learning and Technology Specialist for the development of an online Masters in Science Education degree program that was created in collaboration by TERC and Lesley University.  

Regionally and nationally, Gail serves on the NERCOMP Board of Trustees, was NERCOMP's "Teaching, Learning, and Assessment" conference track chair  from 2005-08, served as the NERCOMP ePortfolio SIG Master from 2003-09, and has been a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts in Education program.  She has given numerous keynote presentations and workshops for the Educause Learning Initiative, NITLE, eTech Ohio, and the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. She is also a founding board member of AAEEBL, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning.

In 2014 she received the Execellence in Teaching Award from Northeastern's College of Professional Studies. In 2013 she received the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning Best-in-Track award for her presentation and article entitled "Are We Who We Think We Are?  ePortfolios as a Tool for Curriculum Redesign." In 2006 the online faculty institute that Gail co-developed, "Learning About Learning Online," received the Exemplary Course Award from the Greenhouse Exemplary Course Project. In 1998 she received the Dorothy Howard education award for CARTS, an online network for educators who are dedicated to culturally responsive teaching and the incorporation of diverse artistic traditions into student learning.

Gail's interests include: online and mobile eLearning design, culturally-responsive teaching, play-based learning, authentic assessment, qualitative research, digital storytelling, and online learning communities. She has a Ph.D. from Indiana University.