SVAD Faculty
Rudy McDaniel
Associate Professor
Last updated on: August 28, 2011
Contact Info.
- Phone: 407-823-2488
- E-mail: rudy@ucf.edu
- Web: http://www.dm.ucf.edu/~rmcdaniel
Location
- Office: OTC500 room 144
- Office Hours: See http://svad.ucf.edu/~rmcdaniel/office_hours.php,
General
- Degrees: Ph.D. 2004, Texts and Technology, University of Central Florida
- CV: [ PDF ]
- Bio:
Rudy McDaniel is Associate Professor of Digital Media for the School of Visual Arts and Design. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in 2004. He also holds undergraduate Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Technical Writing, also from UCF. He has been teaching here since 2002 and in 2008 he was selected as a Faculty Fellow for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2009, he was awarded the Teaching with Technology Award, a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, and the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology. He has also won CAH awards for excellence in graduate and undergraduate teaching (2010).
Dr. McDaniel's research interests generally converge on the intersection between the humanities (particularly narrative structures and analysis) and computer science. He has published on the topics of presence, virtual teams and narrative, knowledge management, interactivity, and information systems. A secondary focus is on the use of video games for training, teaching, and learning. Recent work in this area has focused on improving video games' narratives through semiotic prototyping, using games for teaching project management skills (pdf), and the effective use of games for teaching and learning in online environments. He has also published several articles on the use of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a tool for team training and as a scholarly vehicle for improving digital storytelling (pdf).
His co-authored book on the eXtensible Markup Language as a rhetorical tool for scholarly inquiry was published by Routledge in 2009. A Kindle version is also available.
Dr. McDaniel has contributed book chapters to the following edited collections:
- Storytelling as an Instructional Method: Research Perspectives (Sense Publishers, 2010)
- From A to : Keywords in HTML and Writing. (U of Minnesota Press, 2010)
- Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for Training and Learning (IGI, 2010)
- Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play. (IGI, 2010)
- Content Management: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice (Baywood, 2008)
- The Handbook of Experiential Learning (Pfeiffer, 2007).
- Where is the Learning in Distance Learning? Towards a Science of Distributed Learning and Training (American Psychological Association, 2007)
As a consultant, he has designed Web-based applications for clients such as the IEEE Society and the Library of Congress, and he wrote the interactive video game scripts for Discover Babylon, a learning game produced by the Federation of American Scientists. He has done additional consulting for the EthicsGame.com corporation out of Denver, CO, and the Office of Information Fluency at UCF. Dr. McDaniel is currently director of the Partnership for Research on Synthetic Experience (PROSE) Lab at UCF. The PROSE Lab was recently covered in this article from UCF News and Information.
As of fall 2011, Dr. McDaniel is currently program director for the Texts and Technology doctoral program and acts as Director of Technology for the College of Arts and Humanities.