After earning his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Indiana University in 1990, Dr. Robert G. Anson joined the faculty of Boise State University. Dr. Anson now serves as a tenured Professor in the Department of Networking, Operations and Information Systems within the College of Business and Economics. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Anson has taken an active role on campus. He currently serves as the Faculty Ombudsman through the Provost's Office, and the Qualtrics Brand Manager where he is responsible for coordinating training, support and technical relationships between Boise State and Qualtrics (a web survey tool vendor). Dr. Anson and his wife served as Faculty In Residence for the COBE Residential College from Spring of 2004 through Spring of 2006. Dr. Anson's current research interests include electronic meeting facilitation and team technologies, ITIL process implementation, and ERP implementation.
Articles and Conference Proceedings
Influencing MetacognitionThrough Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Lessons Learned From a Faculty Learning Community (with Sara Ahten, Ingrid Brudenell, James A. Goodman, Eric Orton, and Kathy Reavy), Learning Communities Journal (2010)
Over an academic year, five faculty and one staff member from diverse disciplines at Boise...
Do I Matter? The Impact of Individual Differences on Training Process (with Saurabh Gupta and Robert P. Bostrom), Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th Annual Conference on Computer Personnel Research (2010)
The increasing investment in technology for training and learning in organizations underscores the fundamental importance...
Beyond Face-to-Face: A Field Study of Electronic Meetings in Different Time and Place Modes (with Bjorn Erik Munkvold), Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (2004)
In this article, we present a field study of using an electronic meeting system to...
Facilitating Research with Group Support Systems (with Jack Fellers, Gigi G. Kelly, and Robert P. Bostrom), Small Group Research (1996)
Group Support Systems (GSS) and their effects on group processes and outcomes have been an...
An Assessment of Cooperative Learning Used for Basic Computer Skills Instruction in the College Classroom (with Carolyn M. Keeler), Journal of Educational Computing Research (1995)
This article reports research on the use of cooperative learning strategies in a computer skills...
Contributions to Books
Group Facilitation and Group Support Systems (with Robert Bostrom and Vikki Clawson), Group Support Systems: New Perspectives (1993)