As Director of Instructional Technology Gardzina is responsible for coordinating instructional technology support college-wide and researching developments in the uses of technology in education.  He monitors changes in technology and their effect on society in order to lead timely discussions about the impact of such changes on pedagogy, curricula and the mission of the College, and to propose strategies in response.

Jon recently switched from a split position in Mathematics and Instructional Technology to a position that focuses on Instructional Technology. Prior to the switch Jon had spent four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics and five years in his split position. Jon graduated from Wooster with a BA and obtained his MS and PhD from The Ohio State University. His dissertation was on an extension of one of Ramanujan’s identities to multiple basic hypergeometric series.