Tamara Phillips FudgeTamara Phillips Fudge is a full-time professor in the graduate technology programs at Purdue University Global. She has won fellowships and awards for innovation and teaching, and has taught a wide variety of topics, including web development, human-omputer interaction, systems analysis and design, and those featuring documentation, diagramming, problem-solving, and presentation. Her career started with music degrees from Indiana University and her doctorate from Florida State University. She sang opera, oratorio, and in recital; her compositions have been heard on Public Radio, at various universities, and a state choral convention. She taught vocal and choral music, piano, pedagogy, foreign language diction, opera production, music theory, composition, and related courses in the traditional college classroom for 20-odd years. For 7 years, she was a weekend correspondent for the Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA). Following a brief stint as an agent/registered representative selling life and health insurance and variable products, she returned to school and teaching with a keen interest in technology and has since distinguished herself in online teaching, coordination of large projects, and curriculum development. She has had several book chapters published through IGI Global, and both journal articles and conference presentations elsewhere; she also previously served as editor for two other IGI volumes. Read More Read Less