J. Charles Sterin

J. Charles Sterin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative television journalist, author and screenwriter. Over the course of his 40 year career Sterin has produced over 60 hours of television documentaries, including episodes of A&E Network's primetime series Investigative Reports an Ancient Mysteries, and documentary specials aired on PBS. Sterin is the author of the popular undergraduate textbook "Mass Media Revolution" (Pearson Education), and the history-based thriller "Hell Scrolls"(Connected Editions). Sterin co-produced a national media project with 10 of the world's leading humanist thinkers (including anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist Carl Rogers, an anthropologist Ashley Montague) and was selected by the Poynter Institute to produce its seminal PBS documentary series NewsLeaders on the leading figures of American news media. He was the co-author, along with Richard Shames,M.D., of the trend-setting late 1970s holistic health primer "Healing With Mind power" (Rodale Press) and numerous holistic health articles published in Rodale's health and women's magazines.

Sterin is fascinated with the future of media technologies, especially the evolution of the Internet, mass media convergence, and artificial intelligence-based expert systems. He has developed innovative approaches to producing short-form, documentary videos in integrated content delivery platforms for "blended" online training and higher education. In 2001, Sterin joined the faculty of the University of Maryland University College - a world leader in Web enhanced an online college programs - where he has applied his interest in the evolution of mass media and media-based blended learning applications to the creation of a number of UMUC's mass communications courses. Through these popular courses, Sterin has introduced thousands of students across the country and around the world to the study of mass media.

Today Sterin continues to developed innovative approaches to connect and communicate with a diverse body of students in multimedia enhanced face-to-face and online teaching environments, as well as pursuing his work as a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and author.