LTC Pete Kilner
   Academy Professor of Leader Development & Organizational Learning

   Deputy Director, Center for Company-level Leaders
  

Courses:
   PY201


Contact Information:
   Thayer 500 (Tower at SE corner of Thayer roof parking lot)

    845-938-7959
   peter.kilner @usma.edu

 

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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.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.