Brief Bio

Dr. Lombardi is Associate Professor and Director of the Center of Nursing Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (CONCEPT) at the Duke University School of Nursing. She has a unique background that combines teaching experience, expertise in educational principles and outcomes measurement, success as a researcher, and extensive work with employing leading-edge technologies in support of educational and scholarly innovation.

In previous positions as Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Center at Duke University, Duke University Senior IT Strategist and ISIS Senior Research Scholar, and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Scholar-in-Residence, she provided strategic perspective on national trends in academic technology, built multi-institutional coalitions, and wrote a number of white papers on transformative learning practices in higher education.

As a former associate professor of English turned Internet entrepreneur and university strategist, Marilyn has made cross-disciplinary collaboration the hallmark of her professional agenda for many years. Much of her research activity has focused on the realization of a 3D "metamedium" for deeply collaborative digital scholarship, learning and discovery based on a scalable, open-source architecture. She has also served as a member of the advisory panel for the National Endowment for the Humanities grant program in Digital Humanities Scholarship, and was awarded a planning grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure and NSF Directorate for Computer & Information Science to enlist thought leaders from across the diverse human-computer interaction research community in the development of a coordinated vision and set of strategic recommendations for the future of human-computer interaction in support of 21st century discovery. In addition, she played a leadership role in a Kauffman Foundation planning initiative aimed at developing and disseminating a robust infrastructure for the assessment of learning within virtual worlds.

Her recent publications include a chapter in Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual (Springer-Verlag, 2009) as well as a contribution to the Carnegie Foundation book Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (MIT Press, 2008). A former associate professor of English, she is also the author of a book, The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics; an edited volume, Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender; and numerous articles in scholarly publications.

Academic Program Affiliations

Master of Science in Nursing Program
Doctor of Nursing Practice Program

Education

PhD	University of California, Los Angeles
MA	University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Research interests include:
● Human-computer interaction, specifically human-centered computing
● Educational technology, with emphasis on the strategic use of information technology in support of teaching and learning)
● Cyberinfrastructure for teaching, learning, and assessment
● Emerging collaboration technologies, with emphasis on virtual worlds and simulation-based learning technologies for teaching and learning

Awards and Honors

• 1979 B.A. with Highest Honors, summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles

• 1979 Inducted, Phi Beta Kappa

Areas of Expertise

• Nursing Education

Representative Publications

• 2013 -- Lombardi, M. M. How much are you spending on that MOOC? Is it worth it? Toronto Globe and Mail. October 2, 2013;

• 2013 -- Lombardi, M. M. The inside story: Campus decision making in the wake of the latest MOOC tsunami MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. March, 2013; 9(2); 238-248

• 2013 -- Day, L., Sutphen, M., Lombardi, M. M. Chapter 1: Educating nurses. In Distance Education in Nursing (3rd), edited by Frith, K. H. and Clark, D. J. 2013; pp. 1-15. New York: Springer Publishing..

• 2012 -- Pubmed # 22211755 Powell, D. L., Price, A. J., Burns, F. A., McConnell, E. S., Hendrix, C. C., McWhinney-Dehaney, L., Lombardi, M. M. Pillars for the care of older persons in the Caribbean. Public Health Nurs. January, 2012; 29(1); 80-90

• 2012 -- Lombardi, M. M. Awakening the designer in every nurse. Duke Nursing Magazine. 2012; 8(1); 10-11

• 2010 -- Lombardi, M. Techno-dystopia. American Scientist. 2010; 98(5); 433

• 2010 -- Lombardi, J., Lombardi, M. M. (Web developers) Open Cobalt open source virtual world browser and toolkit website. 2007-2010;

• 2010 -- Lombardi, J., Lombardi, M. M. (Software developers) Open Cobalt pre-Alpha Release [computer software] 2010;

• 2009 -- Lombardi, M. M. The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Engagement Center at Duke University website. [Internet] 2009;

• 2009 -- Lombardi, J., Lombardi, M. M. Opening the metaverse. In Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual, edited by W. S. Bainbridge 2009; pp. 111-122. New York: Springer-Verlag.

• 2008 -- Oblinger, D. G., Lombardi, M. M. Common knowledge: Openness in higher education. In Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, edited by T. Iiyoshi, V. Kumar 2008; pp. 389-400. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

• 2008 -- Lombardi, M. M. Making the grade: The role of assessment in authentic learning. ELI Authentic Learning White Paper Series. 2008;

• 2008 -- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Workshop report and recommendations for a software infrastructure to assess learning outcomes for immersive education activities. 2008;

• 2008 -- National Science Foundation. Workshop report and recommendations on human-computer interaction for 21st century discovery. 2008;

• 2007 -- Lombardi, M. M. Approaches that work: How authentic learning is transforming higher education. ELI Authentic Learning White Paper Series. 2007;

• 2008 -- Lombardi, J., Kay, A., McCahill, M. P., Raab. A, Reed, D. P., Smith, D., & Lombardi, M. M. (Web developers) Croquet project website [Internet]. 2004-2008;

• 2007 -- Lombardi, M. M. Authentic learning for the 21st century. ELI Authentic Learning White Paper Series. 2007;

• 2006 -- Coghlan, E., Crawford, J., Little, J., Lomas, C., Lombardi, M., Oblinger, D., & Page, C. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) discovery tool: Guide to blogging. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. Ancient spaces, the University of British Columbia. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. DRE at Purdue: A distributed rendering environment for teaching animation and scientific visualization. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M., Wall, T. B. Duke University: Perkins Library. Learning Spaces: An EDUCAUSE E-Book. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. DukeCapture: Automated classroom lecture recording. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. USC Confluence: A campus-wide academic wiki. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. Ubiquitous presenter: increasing interaction in a digital lecturing environment. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. The open learning initiative, Carnegie Mellon University. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. The Learning Grid, the University of Warwick. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. The computing center at Cox Hall, Emory University. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. Student success initiative, Montgomery County Community College. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. SciFair: Game worlds for learning. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. Polaris: An online portfolio system for undergraduate engineering students. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. Mekong e-Sim: A cross-disciplinary online role-play simulation. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2006;

• 2006 -- Lombardi, M. M. (Interviewee), & Cummings, J. S. (Interviewer). The Duke iPod project/digital initiative [Podcast] March 26, 2006;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. START: Student technology assessment, resources, and training. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. Standing on the plateau looking forward: The Croquet project. EDUCAUSE Resource Library.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. SCALE-UP: Student-centered activities for large enrollment undergraduate programs. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. Online@UCF. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. ITAP: Information technology associates program. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. New horizons: standing on the plateau. EDUCAUSE Review. 2005; 40 68-69

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. Instructional Development Initiative (IDI). ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M. Calibrated peer review: a writing and critical thinking instructional tool. ELI Innovations and Implementations: Exemplary Practices in Teaching and Learning.. 2005;

• 2005 -- Lombardi, M. M., Lombardi, J. Croquet learning environments: extending the value of campus life into the online experience. In Proceedings: Third International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing on January 28-30 in Kyoto, Japan, edited by K. Tanaka, & K. Rose January, 2005; pp. 135-142. : IEEE CS Press.

• 2004 -- Lombardi, M. M. The crying game: Rigoberta Menchú and the responsibilities of testimonio criticism. In Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women, edited by L. S. Maier & I. Dulfano 2004; pp. 21-45. New York: Peter Lang.

• 2001 -- Lombardi, M. M., Lombardi, J. (Web developers) ViOS corporate and product website [Internet] 2001;

• 2001 -- Lombardi, J., Lombardi, M. M. (software developers) ViOS: The internet in 3D v.1.0 - 1.2 [Computer software] 2001;

• 1995 -- Lombardi, M. M. The body and the song: Elizabeth Bishop’s poetics of translation. 1995; Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

• 1994 -- Lombardi, M. M. Vampirism and translation: Millay, Baudelaire, and the poetics of transfusion. In Edna St. Vincent Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, edited by D. P. Freedman 1994; pp. 130-141. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

• 1993 -- Lombardi, M. M. (Ed.) Elizabeth Bishop: The geography of gender. 1993; Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia.

• 1993 -- Lombardi, M. M. The closet of breath. In Elizabeth Bishop: The geography of gender, edited by M. M. Lombardi 1993; pp. 46-69. Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia.

• 1993 -- Lombardi, M. M. Another way of seeing. In Elizabeth Bishop: The geography of gender, edited by M. M. Lombardi 1993; pp. 1-13. Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia.

• 1992 -- Lombardi, M. M. The closet of breath: Elizabeth Bishop, her body and her art. Twentieth Century Literature. 1992; 38(4); 152-175

• 1990 -- May, M. Publish and perish: William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and the public appetite for scandal. Papers on Language and Literature. 1990; 26(2); 489-512

Grant Funding (selected)

• Implementing a Continuous Healthcare Innovation & Entrepreneurship Framework (CHIEF) for Academic Medical Centers  
  The Marcus Foundation
  06/2014-05/2016
  Project Goal: This project addresses the lack of an effective way for academic medical centers, in particular, to measure their present capabilities for supporting and accelerating continuous healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship (CHIE), or benchmark their present capability level against that of other, similar institutions. In the absence of an evidence-based index of skills and attributes directly associated with organizational capability in the area of HIE, there are deficiencies in the direct and timely flow of ideas through the four primary innovation processes – i.e. discovery, design/define, development, and deployment. These processes determine the rate at which organizations produce both incremental innovations and revenue- or equity-generating opportunities (i.e. “deal flow”). This study will adapt conceptual frameworks and indices that are well established within manufacturing and software engineering industries (“Process Capability Models” also known as “Process Maturity Models”) for use in the healthcare industry. The specific aims of the project are as follows: Aim 1 – conceptualize a multi-level Process Capability Model (CM) as an instrument for measuring organizational healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship (HIE) capability; Aim 2 – evaluate the content validity of the instrument through expert assessment; and Aim 3 – test the instrument’s reliability and construct validity through analysis of Emory Healthcare System survey data. Data acquired will be used toward a grant proposal for a larger, multi-site trial implementation of this model for organizational HIE quality improvement. The overall significance of this research plan is to increase the understanding and further development of HIE support mechanisms capable of accelerating the deal flow process within academic medical centers.

• Learning Outcomes Assessment Infrastructure for Immersive Education  
  Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
  Kauffman Award 0-401-3127
  08/2008-11/2009
  Role: PI
  Project Goal: This grant supported a collaboration among software architects, learning scientists, and psychometricians, resulting in the technical specifications for a scalable infrastructure capable of tracking student performance individually and longitudinally and preserving that data in a standardized format for easy and efficient analysis. The web-services architecture recommended would make it possible for educators and researchers to assess student achievement across multiple immersive learning experiences, including complex, problem-based scenarios built on proprietary and open-source gaming and virtual worlds platforms.

• NSF Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for 21st Century Discovery  
  National Science Foundation
  0817173
  04/2008-12/2008
  Role: PI
  Project Goal: Jointly sponsored by the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and the Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate, this grant supported a two-day, invitation-only workshop bringing together a select group of thought leaders from industry and the academy in the fields of computer science, engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, the cognitive sciences, perceptual psychology, neurobiology, architecture and design to develop recommendations for funding priorities in human-computer interaction research over the next decade.