Dr. Jennifer Summerville currently serves as the Associate Dean, Distance Learning for a large community college in the Dallas area. She is the primary learning officer over the areas of online learning and technology-centered learning. Her team provides learning technology support for faculty, staff, and students with enrollment approaching 26,000 students.

Dr. Summerville's career spans corporate and higher education contexts. Previously, she was the Manager of Learning Technologies for a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company specializing in call center and customer service support. She has also served an associate professor of instructional design at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, teaching graduate-level courses in the Master of Instructional Technology program. From 1997 to 2003, Dr. Summerville taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses for the Department of Instructional Design and Technology at Emporia State University in Emporia, KS. 

Dr. Summerville is an award-winning instructor, has published three textbooks as well as numerous journal articles, and has presented at local, national and international conferences. Her articles and presentations focus on instructional design, instructional media design, and web-based distance learning design and development.