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Center for Teaching and Learning Speaker Series

Where

University of Georgia
230 River Rd
Athens, GA 30602

Upcoming

3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Categories

Events,  Other

3:30 pm Zell B. Miller Learning Center (SLC/MLC) Room 101 Sponsored by: Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Contact: C. Edward Watson Director 706-542-0539  "Open: Decreasing Costs, Improving Access, and Increasing Quality of Education," David Wiley, Brigham Young University. Will focus on open educational resources and how they are shaping all levels of education.David Wiley is a Shuttleworth Fellow working to lower the cost and improve the quality of education. He is currently on leave from Brigham Young University and leading Lumen, an organization dedicated to supporting and improving the adoption of open educational resources by middle schools, high schools, community and state colleges and universities. As an academic, Wiley has received numerous recognitions for his work, including an NSF CAREER grant and appointments as Senior Fellow for Strategy with the Saylor Foundation, Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business and Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.As a social entrepreneur, Wiley has founded or co-founded numerous entities including Lumen, Degreed and the Open High School of Utah. In 2009, Fast Company named Dr. Wiley one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business.”  Center for Teaching and Learning Speaker Series Spring 2013
 
 
 

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