Sam Martin MA,IFA, REALTOR™, MOT is the owner of SamTheTutor.com, Inc. Sam is one of 550 Certified Uniform Standards of Professional Practice (USPAP) instructors worldwide. He holds Illinois Certified Residential Real Estate Appraisal and Real Estate Broker licenses. Sam has been teaching appraisal and real estate classes since 1988. He has taught for a variety of institutions, most recently: Harper College, The Chicago Association of Realtors, and Truman College in the Chicagoland area. Sam has taken advanced educational technology courses from the University of Calgary (at a distance), workshops from Sloan-C (the Sloan-Consortium), and the Illinois Online Network (ION), where he received the Master Online Teacher (MOT) certificate. Sam is also working on his Ph.D. in education (specialization in Educational Technology) at a distance from Walden University. Sam holds the CDEI designation from IDECC (www.idecc.org). He also appeared on a panel for the International Online Conference (IOC) 2009, addressing issues of online learners and instructors. Sam has also presented at the Faculty Summer Institute (FSI) on the subject: Web 2.0: Integrating Facebook, Ning and a Learning Management System (2009). The Real Estate Education Foundation (REEF) has awarded Sam the Academic Scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Sam won a grant from the Association of Illinois Real Estate Educators (AIREE). Sam holds a patent (#6,606,607 B1) for a business process, which is implemented online using proprietary software. Sam is on the REEA Publication Committee. He is also on the Faculty Summer Institute (FSI) Steering Committee. Sam is the REEA representative to the Education Council of Appraisal Foundation Sponsors (ECAFS). Sam has been an adjunct faculty member of Axia College (U of Phoenix) since 10/2008. He teaches critical thinking and general Internet studies in an online environment.