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Jesse M. Heines specializes in the implementation and evaluation of interactive,
user-centered programs with rich graphical user interfaces (GUIs), particularly
those using Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, Java, JavaServer Pages, and XML and its
related technologies. Jesse has a long record of applying and evaluating
these techniques in educational settings. He has developed numerous computer-based
instruction programs and course websites as well as traditional human-computer
interfaces.
All of Jesse’s publications are all available online, as is his detailed curriculum vita.
Prior to joining the UMass Lowell faculty, Jesse spent ten years with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he founded the Computer-Based Course Development Group and developed a large variety of CBT courseware. He holds a B.S. in Earth Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Science Education from the University of Maine, and an Ed.D. in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University. He has done post-doctoral work at The Open University in Great Britain, Brown University in Rhode Island, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Visiting Scholar for two years in the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives.