Academic Information:
BS – USMA,
'90
MA – Philosophy,
Virginia Tech, '98
PhD -- Education
(Instructional Systems Design), Penn State, '06
Academic Interests:
• Junior officer professional development
• Online professional-development forums
• Non-hierarchical models of learning
• Moral justification of war
• Moral/psychological effects of killing in war.
Previous Assignments:
Instructor, Dept of English, USMA
Commander, D/2-325 AIR, 82nd Airborne
Division
Scout Platoon Leader, 4-8 IN, 1st
Armored Division
Mechanized Infantry Platoon Leader, 4-8
IN, 1st Armored Division
Publications and Presentations:
Kilner, P. G. (2006).
The effects of socially relevant representations in content on
members' identities of participation and willingness to contribute
in a distributed community of practice. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Kilner, P. (2006, June 11). Morals in a combat zone.
The Washington Post, p. B07.
Kilner, P.G. (2006). Generating quality content to
support an online professional community of practice.
Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference, 19
February 2006, Hershey, PA.
Kilner, P. G. (2005). Facilitating professional
forums. Plenary address at the Battle Command Knowledge System
Conference, 8-9 November 2005, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Kilner, P. G. and C. M. Hoadley (2005) Anonymity
options and professional participation in an online community of
practice. In T. Koschmann, D. Suthers, & T. W. Chan (Eds.),
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005, Taipei,
Taiwan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Hoadley, C. M. & Kilner, P. G.
(2005). Using technology to transform communities of practice into
knowledge-building communities. Online learning communities [Special
issue]. SIGGROUP Bulletin, 25(1).
Kilner,
P. & Burgess, T. (2005). Training for war—what we’re learning.
Army, 55(4), 19-24.
Kilner, P. G.
(2005). The Military Ethicist’s Role in Preventing and Treating
Combat-related, Perpetration-Induced Psychological Trauma. Paper
presented at the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics,
28-29 January 2005, Springfield, VA.
Dixon, N., Allen,
N., Burgess, T., Kilner, P., & Schweitzer, S. (2005) CompanyCommand:
Unleashing the power of the Army profession. West Point:
Center for the Advancement of Leader Development & Organizational
Learning.
Kilner, P. G., (2004). The
Con-4P Model of learning design for professional communities.
Proceedings of E-Learn 2004, Norfolk, VA, Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education.
Kilner, P. G. & Michaelis, P. R.
(2004) Army professional forums in support of the Global War on
Terror. Plenary address at the Directorate of Information
Management & Army Knowledge Management Conference, 30 August – 3
September 2004, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Kilner, P. G. (2004) How to
start and facilitate an online professional forum. Presented at
the Directorate of Information Management & Army Knowledge
Management Conference, 30 August – 3 September 2004, Fort
Lauderdale, FL.
Kilner, P. G. (2004, April 2)
Afghanistan veterans voluntarily prepare next leaders. Army News
Service.
Kilner, P. G. (2003) Lessons
learned by company-level leaders in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Presented at the USAREUR Land Combat Exposition, 9-11 September,
2003, Heidelburg, Germany.
Kilner, P. G. (2003) Standing
up communities of practice. Presented at the Army Knowledge
Symposium, 12-14 August 2003, Valley Forge, PA.
Kilner, P. G. (2003) Shaping
communities of practice to serve warfighters. Presented at the
Army Knowledge Symposium, 12-14 August 2003, Valley Forge, PA.
Kilner, P. G. (2003). A new
paradigm for distance learning. Paper presented at the Distance
Learning Coordinating Committee Conference, 15-16 March 2003,
Carlisle, PA.
Kilner, P. G. (2002)
Technologies to support communities of practice: US Army:
CompanyCommand.com and PlatoonLeader.org. Presented at the
World Conference on E-Learning in Corp., Govt., Health., & Higher
Ed. (ELEARN), October 15-19 2002, Montreal, Canada.
Kilner, P. G. (2002).
Transforming Army learning through communities of practice.
Military Review, 83(2), 21-27.
Hiemstra, M. & Kilner, P. G.
(2002). Revolutionizing the production of tactics, techniques
and procedures for the contemporary operating environment.
Presented at the Army Knowledge Symposium, April 2002, Kansas City,
MO.
Kilner, P. G.
(Mar-Apr, 2002). Military leaders’
obligation to justify killing in war. Military Review,
83(1), 24-31.
Kilner, P. G. (2001). The
purported civil-military values gap: Ideals vs. standards.
Paper presented at the Joint Services Conference on Professional
Ethics, 25-26 January 2001, Springfield, VA.
Kilner, P. (2000,
November-December). Company commanders team up.
Assembly,
Kilner, P. G. (2000, July 21).
Web site is brainchild of USMA grads. Pointer View, A1.
Kilner, P. G. (2000).
Military leaders’ obligation to justify killing in war. Paper
presented at the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics,
27-28 January 2000, Springfield, VA.
Kilner, P. G. (1999). The
Civil-military 'values' gap: Equivocation, exaggeration, and
professionalism. Paper presented at the Hastings Center and
USMA Interdisciplinary Dialogue, March 1999, West Point, NY.
Kilner, P. G. (1998).
Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War. Masters thesis
published online, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA.
Kilner, P. G. (1998).
Feminism, sexual harassment, and the Army. Paper presented at
the 1998 Radford University Student Research Conference on Gender,
April 1998, Radford, VA.
Kilner, P. G. (1995, May-June).
Developing a cohesive unit. Infantry.