Presenters at Learning with MOOCS II(Note: Last names are page anchors: add #Lastname to URL.)
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Anant Agarwal, CEO
edX
Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works.
Giora Alexandron, Postdoctoral Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A postdoc researcher at the RELATE online education research group, MIT, using data science tools to study the behavior of students in MOOCs. PhD in Computer Science Education from the Weizmann Institute of Science, focusing on cognitive factors in programming.
Prior to that, algorithm development and people management positions in the Hi-Tech Industry, building programming tools.
Lucy Appert, Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Columbia University
Lucy Appert is Associate Director for Instructional Design at Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning. She holds a PhD in 17th & 18th c. British literature and has more than 20 years of teaching experience. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Board for the Apereo Foundation, an open source educational technology consortium.
Yoav Bergner, Research Scientist
Educational Testing Service
Yoav Bergner is a Research Scientist in the Center for Advanced
Psychometrics at Educational Testing Service (ETS). His years teaching science and math in a NYC public school led to a research interest in the potential of digital environments for personalized learning and assessment. His current work bridges educational data mining and psychometric approaches to modeling process data, including MOOCs and simulation-based tasks, with particular interests in multidimensionality issues, dynamic models, and collaborative learning and assessment.
Michelle Boardman, Senior Academic Manager
University of Derby Online Learning
Peter Bryant, Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Bryant is the Head of Learning Technology and Innovation at the London School of Economics. He leads the team that designs and develops projects involving innovative digital pedagogies, social media and education and learning spaces.
Jaime Busquets,
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
As Head of the IT department of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and member of the EUNIS European Learning Task Force, has been for years responsible in eLearning projects, and is currently involved in the production and deployments of MOOCs and coordinating the Flipped Classroom initiative on the UPV.
Greg Bybee, Director of Learning Products
NovoEd
Greg Bybee is Director of Learning Products at NovoEd. His Learning Experience Design team is responsible for designing, building, and running over 200 MOOCs for universities, corporations, and nonprofits. Outside of work, Greg serves on the Board for Leadership High School and advises a number of edtech startups. Previously, he was a Fellow with NewSchools Venture Fund and an intern at Coursera. Greg holds a MA-Education and MBA from Stanford and a BA from Harvard.
Michael Cennamo, Senior Educational Technologist
Columbia University
Michael Cennamo is a Senior Educational Technologist at Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). He is also an instructor and doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia.
Michael is currently designing both online and blended learning environments for Columbia faculty; his interest and passion lie in helping teachers to effectively use technology in their classrooms, both large and small.
Michael lives in NYC.
Zhongzhou Chen, Postdoc Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
My background is in Physics Education Research, specializing in multimedia learning theory and problem solving. I’ve been designing, implementing and analyzing AB experiments in MOOCs for the past two years at MIT, and is currently also designing and creating new physics MOOCs. I’m interested in understanding the unique learning behavior of MOOC students through experiments and data analysis, and exploring novel designs of online courses that can be both efficient and effective.
Jean Cheng, Director, Digital Learning, Institute for Research and Learning
Exploratorium
Jean Cheng has worked in media production and online content development for 20 years. She directs the Exploratorium's efforts to expand the impact and reach of our teacher professional development programs through digital and distance learning technologies.
Matthieu Cisel, PhD candidate
ENS Cachan
After a Master in Ecology, I started a PhD on MOOCs and Open Education in 2012, took part along with my research team in the design of the first French MOOCs and first researches on the topic. We mix different methods, learning analytics, surveys and semi-structured interviews.
Matt Crosslin, Learning Innovation Coordinator
LINK Research Lab, UT Arlington
Matt Crosslin is currently the Learning Innovation Coordinator for the LINK Research Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has a background in instructional design and teaching at both the secondary and university levels and has been an active blogger and conference presenter. His favorite areas of expertise include instructional design, learning innovation, open learning, sociocultural theory, heutagogy, and networked learning. Crosslin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Learning Technologies from the University of North Texas.
Jennifer DeBoer,
Purdue University
Jennifer DeBoer is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received the National Science Foundation Early CAREER award in 2015 for her work on diverse students’ use of and success in blended engineering courses. Her research is situated at the critical intersection of engineering education, technology, comparative education policy, and development. She is motivated by the need for greater understanding of how contextual factors moderate the relationship between STEM education opportunities, formal and informal education, and development.
Fanny Declercq,
Université Catholique de Louvain
I am a teaching researcher at the Center for European and International law (CEDIE), Université de Louvain (Belgium). I worked on the MOOC International Law (edX).
Crystal DeJaegher, Digital Learning Designer
University of Notre Dame
Dr. Crystal J. DeJaegher is an instructional designer at the University of Notre Dame who works with faculty and staff to develop digital assets for online courses. Her research interests include mixed-reality technologies, learning analytics, and improving students' learning outcomes and academic experiences using computing technology.
Justin T. Dellinger, Research Coordinator
University of Texas at Arlington
Justin T. Dellinger serves as the Research Coordinator for the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge (LINK) Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to his current position, he worked as an instructional designer. He has experience teaching in both secondary and higher education, and is currently working on his Transatlantic History doctorate at UT Arlington while teaching online history courses.
Philip Desenne, Fellow in Instructional Technologies
Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
Phil is a Fellow in Instructional Technologies at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University and Director of Educational Initiatives at CritiqueIt.com. He has over 15 years of experience developing instructional design and educational technologies to support online teaching, learning and research at Harvard. His area of interest is interoperable multimedia annotation frameworks for education and research. Last year he spearheaded the design and development of annotation tools for the Open EdX platform.
John Dillon, Dr.
University of Notre Dame
John Dillon (PhD University of Notre Dame) is the Learning Analytics and Text Mining Postdoctoral Fellow and part of the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. He is also the Assistant Director of the Writing Center. His research focuses on affect and assessment in online and traditional learning environments. Last summer, he was a USAID Research Fellow at IBM Research, India.
Xiaojing Duan, Instructional Systems Engineer
University of Notre Dame
Xiaojing Duan works as an Instructional Systems Engineer in the Office of Digital Learning at University of Notre Dame. In this role, Xiaojing switches between her software engineering, instructional design and learning analytics hats to ensure that students receive the best possible learning experience. Xiaojing is passionate about making a teaching/learning environment so fun, engaging, and adaptive that you cannot help falling in love with it.
Kristen Eshleman, Director of Digital Learning Research & Design
Davidson College
Kristen coordinates the design and research of campus-wide experiments supported by digital learning. Digital Learning R&D is focused on the design and support of curricular and co-curricular experiments that inform Davidson's academic digital strategy. She is also currently Director of Academic Technology at Davidson College. Her current interests include digital scholarship, inclusive pedagogy, mindfulness & contemplative learning, and experiments grounded in student agency, lifelong learning, and whole person formation.
Will Fenton, Columnist, PC Magazine & Director of the Fordham Lincoln Center Writing Center
Fordham University & PC Magazine
Will Fenton write about education technology as a contributing editor and columnist for PC Magazine. He is also the Director of the Writing Center at Lincoln Center, a Teaching Fellow, and a doctoral candidate of English at Fordham University where he specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and the Digital Humanities.
Oliver Ferschke, Postdoctoral Associate
Carnegie Mellon University
Oliver Ferschke is a PostDoc at Carnegie Mellon University in the Language Technologies Institute. He studies collaboration at scale and seeks to understand how collaboration works in communities through the lens of language and computational linguistics. Oliver holds a PhD in computer science from the UKP Lab at TU Darmstadt, Germany as well as an M.A. in linguistics and a teaching degree in computer science and ESL form the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Ann Fox, Professor of English
Davidson College
Dr. Ann M. Fox is a Professor of English at Davidson College, where she specializes in modern and contemporary dramatic literature and disability studies. Her scholarship on disability and theater has been supported by an AAUW postdoctoral fellowship and published widely; her current book project traces the representation of disability on the 20th-century commercial stage. She has also co-curated three disability-related visual arts exhibitions, and co-taught a MOOC on ""Representations of HIV/AIDS"" on edX,org in the fall of 2014.
Jen French, Digital Learning Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jen French works with the MIT Math Department to create digital learning tools. Her content is used residentially at MIT in differential equations and linear algebra. Globally, her calculus content made its debut this summer on edX. An extensible, automatically gradeable sketching tool was created as part of the digital learning aresenal created for calculus on the web.
Toru Fujimoto, Assistant Professor
The University of Tokyo
Toru Fujimoto is an assistant professor at the Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, The University of Tokyo. He completed his graduate study at the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D. in Instructional Systems). His research focus is on game-based learning and the design of learning environments using social media.
Myk Garn, Assistant Vice Chancellor for New Learning Models
University System of Georgia
Myk Garn is an academic innovator and strategist with over 30 years experience developing, deploying and leading college and state system instructional, operational, organizational and strategic models. At the University System of Georgia he leads the New Learning Models 2030 Taskforce and associated Invent and Explore the Beyond MOOCs that are developing scenarios, critical success factors and implications for new learning models for 2030. Dr. Garn also leads initiatives to develop and deploy competency-based programs at USG institutions.
Michael Goudzwaard, Instructional Designer / Instructor
Dartmouth College
Mike is an Instructional Designer in Educational Technologies at Dartmouth College. He received a B.A. in History from Calvin College and a M.S. in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England. Mike has worked on MOOC design, instruction, and research in several course projects including Introduction to Psychology (Keene State College), Introduction to Environmental Science (Dartmouth College), and American Renaissance Literature (Dartmouth, offered 2016).
Jonathan Haber, Director of Learner Assessment
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Jonathan Haber is currently Director for Learner Assessment at the Woodrow Wilson Academy. His 2013 Degree of Freedom One Year BA project involved taking the equivalent of a four-year degree in twelve months using MOOCs and other forms of free learning. His book MOOCS: An Essential Guide was published by MIT Press in 2014.
Syed Munib Hadi, Head of Academic Innovation Hub
University of Derby
Currently heading Academic Innovation Hub which is a newly established department within the University of Derby looking at driving the Academic Innovation agenda for University.
The Hub is to lead on the scoping, development and communication of exciting and sector leading strategy in relation to innovation technologies and pedagogies across the University.
Clayton Hainsworth, Operations and Production Manager
edX
Clayton Hainsworth is the Media Operation and Production Manager for edX. He has been involved in all aspects of academic video production and distance education for the past 15 years of his career. He attended Emerson College in Boston earning a degree in communications focusing on audio engineering. While working at MIT in 2011 he managed the post-production of 6.002x Circuits and Electronics, an experimental online course that become the prototype for edX. Clayton joined edX in his current position in July of 2012.
Karen Harpp, Professor
Colgate University
Karen Harpp is faculty in the Geology Department and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Colgate University. She taught Colgate's first online course, The Advent of the Atomic Bomb, which integrated on-campus students with alumni, and is currently offering a course in which students design an online course for children. A presentation about bomb course is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruStZPTUiwg. A Chronicle article on the course is here: http://chronicle.com/article/One-Reason-to-Offer-Free/151163/
Claudia Hauff,
Delft University of Technology
Claudia Hauff works as Assistant Professor at the Web Information Systems group, Delft University of Technology. Her research expertise lies in the areas of information retrieval, personalization and learning analytics.
Tobias Hecking,
University of Duisburg-Essen
I´m a PhD student at the COLLIDE research group at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. My current research is in the field of learning analytics and social media analytics with a strong focus on social network analysis techniques. In the area of massive open online courses I`m especially interested in understanding and supporting collaboration in large distance learning settings.
Neil Heffernan, Professor and Director of Learning Science and Technologies PhD Program
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Neil Heffernan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Learning Science & Technologies Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Neil created ASSISTments, a web-based platform used by 50,000 students for nightly homework and daily classwork.
He has produced over 20 randomized control trials comparing different conditions impact on student learning and retention. His assistmentstestbed.org is an NSF funded project to let others run experiments ASSISTments. His tool has already been used inside of EdX via LTI.
Neil Heffernan, Professor and Director of Learning Science and Technologies PhD Program
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Neil created ASSISTments, a web-based platform used by 50,000 students for nightly homework and daily classwork. In 1997 he had a seizure and told he had three years to live. This helped motivate giving away this platform as a free public service. He has produced over 20 randomized control trials comparing how different conditions impact learning. His new assistmentstestbed.org is an NSF funded project to let others run experiments ASSISTments. His tool has already been used inside of EdX via LTI.
Erik Hemberg,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erik Hemberg, PhD is a Post Doctoral researcher in the ALFA group in MIT CSAIL. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland. He co-taught and developed educational technology for a blended learning course in China and has developed Computer Science outreach courses for high school kids at University College Dublin. Before his PhD he developed eLearning software for micro economic simulations. He also performs research regarding machine learning and is currently involved in research regarding tax evasion and physiological time series prediction.
Fiona Hollands, Associate Director
Teachers College
Fiona Hollands is the Associate Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Fiona conducts research and evaluation in education, primarily on the impact of technology on teaching and learning. She is the author of MOOCs: Expectations and Reality and MOOCs in Higher Education: Institutional Goals and Paths Forward. Fiona earned a B.A. Honours Degree in Pure and Applied Biology from Oxford University, England, and a Ph.D. in Politics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Elizabeth Huttner-Loan, EdTechX Course Manager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth develops and manages massive open online courses (MOOCs) on educational technology at MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program/Education Arcade. Previously, she was an Instructional Developer for the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. While at Gordon-MIT, she collaborated with the company AMD to create a text-based simulation related to engineering leadership. She holds an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Stian Håklev,
University of Toronto
PhD student in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto. Institutional researcher at Open.UToronto, data manager for Coursera and EdX MOOCs at University of Toronto.
Paul Salvador Inventado, Post-doctoral researcher
Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Salvador Inventado is a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include educational data mining, learning analytics, and data-driven approaches for the production, use, and validation of design patterns. He was a faculty member in the Software Technology Department at De La Salle University, Philippines for 5 years. After which, he attained his PhD in Information Science from Osaka University, Japan through the Monbukagakusho Scholarship before filling his current position.
Ajay Kapur, President
Kadenze
Ajay Kapur is President and CEO of Kadenze, the Arts and Creative Technology MOOC. He received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from University of Victoria combining computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering, music and psychology with a focus on intelligent music systems and media technology. Ajay graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University.
Peter Kaufman, Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Columbia University
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Columbia University’s Center for Teaching and Learning. A documentary filmmaker and writer, he is the author of The Columbia Manual of Video Style, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, he is the founder and former executive producer of Intelligent Television in New York.
Kim Manturuk, Manager of Program Evaluation
Duke University
Kim manages CIT’s research and evaluation initiatives. She has expertise in all aspects of evaluation planning and execution including survey design, research protocol development, attrition analysis, statistical methods, propensity score analysis, and stakeholder identification. Kim is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between different types of interactions and learning outcomes in MOOCs and flipped classrooms. Kim holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her B.A. from Indiana University.
Maurice Matiz, Director
Columbia University
Maurice direct the Media and Instructional Design Studio at Columbia's Center for Teaching & Learning. He also co-founded and led the predecessor organization, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He has been an advocate for technology innovation at Columbia for many years. In the MOOC arena, Maurice spearheaded Columbia's efforts on Coursera and edX efforts in 2012. Maurice serves as co-chair and organizer for the Learning with MOOC II Conference.
Piotr Mitros, Chief Scientist
edX
As Chief Scientist at edX and its technical co-founder, Piotr Mitros is charged with developing and applying technology to optimize the learning process. Mitros lead the creation of the original MITx platform and help lead the creation of its pedagogy, and currently runs a range of research and advanced development initiatives at edX.
Jason Mock, Assistant Director
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Mock leads the MOOC course development efforts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), United States. Thus far, 29 faculty have developed 31 MOOCs which have been offered 64 times, enrolling over 1.7 million learners. Illinois has a large data/research team that runs many research projects at a campus level and provides support to those faculty running their MOOC research.
Darren Moon, Mr
London School of Economics and Political Science
Eni Mustafaraj, Dr.
Wellesley College
Eni Mustafaraj is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College, MA. Her past research has been in the area of social computing, focusing in information reliability, trustworthiness in social networks, and manipulation of public opinion. Recently, she has been applying her skills in data analysis and visualization to the area of learning analytics. She is working with large sets of MOOC click-stream data to capture, categorize, and understand online learning sessions.
Ellen Nedde, Chief, Online Learning
International Monetary Fund
Ellen Nedde is a Unit Chief at the International Monetary Fund, in charge of the online learning program in the Institute for Capacity Development. Prior to joining the Institute, she served as an economist in the African, Western Hemisphere, and European Departments, working on such countries as Burundi, Mauritius, the United States, Canada, UK, and the Bahamas. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland.
Christopher Newfield, Professor of American Studies
University of California
professor of literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, His main current areas of research are innovation theory and Critical University Studies. He is the author of Mapping Multiculturalism, Ivy and Industry, and Unmaking the Public University, writes for the LA Review of Books, Huffington Post, CHE, and Inside Higher Ed, and blogs at Remaking the University
Kelsey O'Brien, Information Literacy Librarian
University at Albany, SUNY
I am a Librarian in the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany, SUNY. I have previously worked as a high school library media specialist and a youth services librarian. I am interested in alternative credentialing technologies, competency-based learning, and creative publication tools.
https://www.academia.edu/
Stephanie Ogden, Digital Media Lead
Columbia University
Stephanie manages a team of video specialists and influences the overall direction and role of digital video at the Center. She oversees all of the CTL video projects from developing productions for digital health interventions to producing interviews with world-renown artists and intellectuals to directing scripted productions. She works closely with CTL’s highly skilled technical team of programmers, designers and educational technologist and faculty to produce videos for Columbia courses, hybrid courses and online programs.
Andreina Parisi-Amon, Research Manager, Course Success
Coursera
Andreina Parisi-Amon is a Teaching & Learning Specialist and Research Manager on the Course Success team at Coursera. There she focuses on the development and implementation of best practices in MOOC design based on the experience of other courses on the platform and educational research. Andreina also supports the growing community of researchers at Partner Institutions, supporting ongoing MOOC educational research and managing the protection and sharing of learner data. Andreina graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke and a PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford.
Drew Paulin, Manager, Learning Design and Innovation
University of British Columbia
Drew is a doctoral student at The iSchool at UBC. He is interested in the reciprocal relationship between the design of informational interfaces, and the learning behaviours and interactions that users have within that space.
His research focuses on e-learning, learning analytics, learning networks, and peer-generated approaches to online learning. Drew is also the Manager of Learning Design and Innovation at The Sauder School of Business, UBC, where he is responsible for integrating learning design strategies with an emphasis on innovation in participatory and collaborative learning.
David Robertshaw, Academic Lead for Nursing, Health and Social Care
University of Derby Online Learning
David is a Registered Nurse and academic who leads a portfolio of health- and nursing-related online distance learning degree programmes at the University of Derby, UK. As part of his role, David was the first member of staff at his institution to develop and deliver a MOOC, which was on Dementia and first ran during July 2015.
Drew Ross, Dean
Open College @ Kaplan University
Drew Ross has worked in e-learning research for the past fifteen years, helping universities across the US & UK create and expand their online offerings. As the dean of Graduate Education for The Washington Post Company's Kaplan University, he created the university's first MOOCs. In his current role, he runs the academic side of OC@KU. Dr. Ross holds a doctorate and a master's degree from The University of Oxford in the UK, and a master's degree in biochemistry from The University of Chicago.
Aya Sakaguchi, Instructional Programs
NovoEd
Aya Jennifer Sakaguchi does Instructional Programs and Marketing at NovoEd. She received her BA from Bowdoin College and EdM from Harvard University with a concentration in Technology, Innovation, and Education. Previously, she was at YouTube/Google as a Partner Operations Coordinator and taught English at Université Blaise Pascal. She is passionate about leveraging technology to build creative and innovative learning experiences.
Martin Segado,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin is a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. His current focus is on graphical input and assessment tools for online education, an interest which grew out of a brief stint as an ed-tech software engineer in the MIT mathematics department. His masters work (and most of his teaching experience) was in the area of thermal-fluids engineering, and he enjoys singing with a cappella groups and pursuing projects related to audio engineering in his free time.
Mike Sharples, Professor
Open University
Mike Sharples is Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University in the United Kingdom and Academic Lead at FutureLearn. He has an international reputation for research in the design of learning technologies. His current projects include the design of learning at massive scale, the nQuire-it platform for citizen inquiry learning, and the Juxtalearn project to enhance science and technology learning. He was founding president of the International Association for Mobile Learning.
Jennifer Sherer,
Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, PhD, is an Instructional Design Fellow for the Institute for Learning (IFL) at the University of Pittsburgh. (http://ifl.pitt.edu/) In addition to designing tools and learning environments, she supports the IFL’s data and evaluation process, teaches Accountable Talk online workshops, and writes. She co-designed and co-taught the IFL’s Coursera MOOC: Accountable Talk: Conversation that Works and co-developed the Process Engineering for Educational Results (PEER) project.
Allegra Smith, Associate Educator, Interpretation, Research & Digital Learning
The Museum of Modern Art
Allegra Smith is the Associate Educator, Interpretation, Research & Digital Learning at The Museum of Modern Art. She works to produce online courses for a wide range of audiences featuring MoMA's rich collection of modern and contemporary art. Allegra joined MoMA in 2012 and works with a team to produce online courses and other interpretive content for MoMA’s Audio+ app, MoMA.org and MoMALearning.
Allegra holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Delaware.
Robert Steiner, Director, Online Teacher Education Programs
American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Robert V. Steiner directs online teacher education at the American Museum of Natural History. His focus is on the development and implementation of accessible, innovative and effective online and blended programs. He has created partnerships with higher education and other institutions that have helped support over 10,000 educator enrollments in online graduate courses and over 100,000 enrollments in Massive Open Online Courses. Previously, Dr. Steiner led the development of the first graduate online courses at Columbia Teachers College.
Erland Stevens, Professor
Davidson College
Erland teaches organic and medicinal chemistry at Davidson College. His medicinal chemistry MOOC will launch for its third run on the edX platform in October 2015. Erland has used the MOOC content to blend and flip his residential medicinal chemistry course. He is interested in developing industrial partnerships in MOOCs and assessing learning in online and residential students.
Carlos Turro, Easing transcripts for MOOC videos with an ASR system
Universitat Politécnica de Valencia
Dr. Carlos Turro is from year 2000 Head of Media Services at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. There he developed the Polimedia service to create Video Learning Objects. He has worked at different e-learning related project, like the Translectures, and the Rec:All projects. Currently is involved in the edX project, in the Opencast community for Lecture Capture, on the development of the Paella Player and in the EMMA project for automated MOOCs transcription and translation.
Jeff Ubois,
MacArthur Foundation
Jeff Ubois is a Program Officer in Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives, where he is responsible for Discovery grants. Previously Jeff was a consultant to archives, museums, broadcasters, and commercial organizations in the U.S. and E.U. He has worked for Intelligent Television in New York, the Bassetti Foundation in Milano, Italy, and the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. He was a staff research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and part of the Preserving Digital Public Television Project based at Thirteen/WNET and funded by the Library of Congress.
Sidhant Wadhera,
Colgate University
Sidhant Wadhera is in his third year at Colgate University, studying Mathematical Economics and Political Science. He has served as a developer for a course offered simultaneously in the classroom and on edX as a SPOC, which incorporated alumni. Currently, he is a designer and teaching assistant for a class in which students are producing a MOOC on global issues. His paper on online education at a liberal arts college, co-authored with Allison Zengilowski and Karen Harpp, will be published in EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
Elle Yuan Wang,
Columbia University Teachers College
Elle Yuan Wang is a Doctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Studies and Learning Analytics at Columbia University Teachers College. Previously, she earned her Master's Degree in Communication. She has been a Social Media Research Fellow with Mayor Bloomberg's Office and Special Projects Officer for the President's Office at Columbia University before coming back to school. Her current research focus is on MOOC learner motivation and MOOC success metrics reflecting student longitudinal career development.
Lance Warren, Director of Online Courses
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Lance Warren studied history and politics at Syracuse University and Brandeis University, focusing on race and ethnicity in the twentieth century United States. Since 2010 he has supported the work of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, producing online courses, video series, and virtual field trips for history teachers across the country. In addition to his work with online learning, Lance and his production partner Hannah Ayers craft award-winning documentary and promotional work through their production company, Field Studio (fieldstudiofilms.com).
David Wessner,
Davidson College
Joseph Williams, Research Fellow
Harvard University
Joseph Jay Williams (www.josephjaywilliams.com) uses the MOOClet Framework to design modular components of online courses so that they support continual adaptation and improvement, using randomized experimental comparisons of alternative micro-designs, and reinforcement learning algorithms for crowdsourcing and personalization. He is a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL), focusing on human computer interaction and machine learning in education. He did an online education postdoc at Stanford and Cognitive science PhD at UC Berkeley.
Mary Ellen Wiltrout, MITx Digital Learning Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary Ellen Wiltrout completed her Ph.D. thesis in Biology at MIT. In 2009, she started as the preceptor for MCB52, the Molecular Biology course at Harvard University. In 2011, she completed the HHMI Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education and led a group as a facilitator in 2012. In 2013, she was part of the core team to create Eric Lander's MITx course on edX, 7.00x Introduction to Biology. Mary Ellen now oversees all of the Department of Biology MITx projects.
Maryalice Wu, Director
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maryalice is the supervisor of the data analytics group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and an adjunct assit. prof in the Depart. of Sociology. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in a statistical consulting unit of at the University since 1999. Her projects relate to program evaluations in academia, including research on the impact of MOOCS. Her other research focuses on the economic and health empowerment of women in developing nations.
Allison Zengilowski,
Colgate University
Allison Zengilowski is in her third year at Colgate University, studying Psychology and Peace & Conflict Studies. She has served as a developer for a course offered simultaneously in the classroom and on edX as a SPOC, which incorporated alumni. Currently, she is a designer and teaching assistant for a class in which students are producing a MOOC on global issues. Her paper on online education at a liberal arts college, co-authored with Sidhant Wadhera and Karen Harpp, will be published in EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
Qian Zhou, Doctor
Tsinghua University