Keynote Speaker Biography
Charles Dziuban, Professor Emeritus, joined the College of Education at UCF in 1970 and has served as director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness since 1999. In 2000, Dziuban was named UCF’s first Pegasus Professor, the university’s highest honor given to a faculty member who has made an extraordinary contribution to UCF and excelled in teaching, research and service.
An expert in distributed learning, Dziuban has served as the principal investigator examining the characteristics and perceptions of students enrolled in UCF’s highly successful online courses and faculty teaching those courses. He has won the Outstanding Professor and Research Professor awards, the Excellence in Research Award and Excellence in Graduate Teaching awards.




