Faculty Profiles

Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean for Online and Learning Innovation at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her role, she provides strategic leadership in conceptualizing and implementing traditional and non-traditional online programs to meet the needs of diverse audiences and oversees all aspects of online program administration at the college. Her research interests include best practices and leadership strategies for implementing successful online programs at universities, technology integration in teaching, and instructional design. She also has extensive online teaching experience having taught for the fully online master’s program in Learning Design and Technology at Purdue for many years. She also has a background in foreign language education having taught German at the Goethe Institute in Chennai, India. Previously, she was director of the Foreign Language Technology Center at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit. She received a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from Wayne State University in 2011 and a M.S. in Educational Technology from Purdue University in 2001. She is past president of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)..

Selected Publications

• Sebastian, P., Gopalakrishnan, S., & Hendricks, H. (2021). Language Laboratories and Centers: Looking to History and Anticipating the Future. In Lavolette, E., & Kraemer, A. (Eds), Language center handbook 2021. Auburn, AL: International Association for Language Learning Technology.
• Gopalakrishnan, S. (2019). Parvathy Ramanathan and Mohana Ganesan: Redesigning a Workshop To Increase The Impact Of Social Workers’ Efforts In A Developing Country. In P. A. Ertmer, J. A. Quinn & K. D. Glazewski (Eds.), The ID CaseBook: Case Studies in Instructional Design (5th Edition). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
• Gopalakrishnan, S. (2013). Empirical development of a model for implementing online learning at academic institutions. In T. Plomp & N. Nieveen (Eds.), Educational design research: Introduction and illustrative cases. Enschede, Netherlands: SLO, Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development.
• Gopalakrishnan, S., Franz, J., & Yaden, B. (2013). The Language Learning Center Director: Management and Leadership: Roles, Styles and Philosophies. In A. Ross (Ed.), IALLT Language Center Management. The International Association for Language Learning Technology.
• Erbaggio, P., Gopalakrishnan, S., Hobbs, S., & Liu, H. (2012). Enhancing Student Engagement through Online Authentic Materials. IALLT Journal, 42(2).
• Gopalakrishnan, S. (2012). A change model for implementing online learning: Best practices and leadership strategies. In Distance Learning, 2012: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning (pp. 260-264). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System.