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Jonathan Michael Spector is an American academic working as the professor of learning technologies and the doctoral program coordinator at the
University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School, ...
He was previously professor of educational psychology of the
University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...
and instructional systems at Florida State University.


Early life and education

Spector was born in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in international affairs from the
United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is a United States service academy in El Paso County, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs. It educates cadets for service in the officer corps of the United States Air Force and U ...
in 1967 and a PhD in philosophy from the
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at Austin in 1978. __NOTOC__


Career

Spector's research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. He has authored over 150 publications in the field of educational technology, and edited the ''Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology'', and the ''Encyclopedia of Educational Technology''. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in China, India, and Malaysia and was a Fulbright research scholar at the
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. He was a past president of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. __NOTOC__


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