Don Krug is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia in educational technologies, curriculum studies, and art education. He has more than 25 years of teaching experience with over ten years in the public schools K-12. From 1993-2002, he taught at The Ohio State University and in 1998 received an Outstanding Teaching Award. As a Fulbright Award recipient in 2000-2001, he conducted research about pedagogy and the design and development of emerging technologies and communication spaces in teacher education.
Don has published nationally and internationally about culture, ecology, and educational technologies. In 1997, he developed a website about Art & Ecology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum for The Getty Education Institute for the Arts. In 1999-2000, he developed "Ethnic Arts: A Means of Intercultural Communication-Online" a distance education course to study how students build community and mediate virtual environments while learning and communicating about ideas and issues of diversity and difference among their peers. In 2001 - 2002, he authored a teacher professional development online book/course "Identity and Place in Contemporary Art," a collaboration between Davis Publication, Art:21, PBS public television, and Marlboro College. Art: 21 produces the "Contemporary Artists in the Twenty-first Century," videotape series examining the work of twenty-one contemporary artists. Presently, his research focuses on how community, communication, and teaching and learning are facilitated/limited through the interface development and design of virtual education.