About Us

Witt Salley, Director of Online Education

Witt Salley is Clemson’s founding Director of Online Education. He has served the field of online teaching and learning in various administrative, instructional, and service capacities since 2003. Salley's administrative posts have included Executive Director of Online Learning at a private career-training university headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, as well as chief administrative officer of the online campus in the Ozarks Technical Community College system.

Since 2008, Salley has served on the graduate faculty of California State University, East Bay, in the M.S. in Education with an Option in Online Teaching and Learning program—the same program he completed in 2005. Additionally, he has taught face-to-face and online courses in English studies, professional communication, instructional technology, teacher education, and political science. At Clemson, Salley teaches online sections of English 315: Scientific Writing and Communication.

Salley has presented at international, national, regional, and state conferences on a variety of topics related to online education. He was an invited presenter at both the Missouri Community College Association and the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges Conferences. Other presentations have been given at the United Stated Distance Learning Association, the Distance Learning Administration Conference, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Salley has acted as the South Central Representative of the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) and as Vice President, President, and Past President of the Missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA). For two years, Salley was an eLearning Consultant for the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C).

Salley is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and Sloan-C's Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning as well as ITC's Distance Learning Leadership Academy. He, too, is in the final stages of an Ed.D. in eLearning and Online Teaching at Northcentral University. Complementing his advanced degrees in online education are 22 graduate hours in technical and professional writing as well as a B.S. in Professional Writing, summa cum laude, from Missouri State University.

David Dumonde, Instructional Designer for Online Education

David Dumonde holds a master's degree in education, specializing in online teaching and learning, from California State University, East Bay, and has been working toward a doctorate in higher and adult education at the University of Memphis. He has been both a teacher and administrator in higher education since 1999, including experience as a department chair at Remington College in New Orleans and an academic dean at Remington College in Memphis. He has been working exclusively in the field of online education since 2008 as an online teacher, faculty developer, and instructional designer at Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) in Missouri. At OTC, he developed a certification program for new online faculty and trained nearly 200 instructors to teach online.

Prior to working in the field of higher education, Dumonde spent more than 20 years as a visual designer, including more than a dozen years as the principal of his own graphic design studio in San Francisco, where his client base included Apple, American Express, Blue Shield, Macworld magazine, and Wells Fargo. He brings this experience to his work as an instructional designer, developing online courses with an emphasis on visual unity, typographic legibility, ease of navigation, and the use of images and video content that contribute to student learning.

Stephen Lind, Assistant Director of Online Education

Stephen Lind has worked in online higher education since 2008. He has taught an array of online courses in communication cultures and practices. His related administrative and research experience includes presenting original research at regional and national conferences and serving as the chair of the 2012 Carolina Rhetoric Conference.

Lind is particularly interested in online digital video as a unique site for civic engagement. This interest has informed his traditional and online pedagogies, including the development of the 2MinuteThinker YouTube Channel designed as a resource for student research and as a drop-in digital media assignment for educators. Lind’s work describing the value of teaching “digital oratory” to students was recently published in the National Communication Association’s journal Communication Teacher.    
 
In 2013, Lind will complete his Ph.D. from Clemson’s innovative Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program, which encourages inventive experimentation with technologies and online spaces. His dissertation explores the way engaging mainstream entertainment media affects cultural norms, particularly in the context of religious discourse, through an investigation of Charles Schulz’s globally successful Peanuts franchise.