Dr. Paulette Robinson is the Deputy Director for Advanced Education Initiatives for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU). Her expertise will be used to research advanced education tools, teaching and learning theories, teaching techniques, assessment/evaluation, etc, for NDU educational mission and DoD.In this position, she managed a distributed learning instructional design group, oversaw technology purchases, reviews emerging technologies for inclusion in the iCollege labs, and implements technology and facilitates instructional use of technology for the College. As part of her position, she is also responsible to review all student assessment plans and create evaluation capabilities for College courses and programs. In addition, she is the leader for the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds. A group of over 1,600 from government (federal, state, local and international), industry, and academia who are interested in the use of virtual worlds in government, confronting and solving common issues, as well as sharing best practices. She is co-leading a vGov project with the USDA CIO to provide secure access to virtual worlds for government.