Professional

Professional experience

• Associate Professor of Teaching (with tenure), UBC Faculty of Education (Master of Educational Technology program & Department of Language and Literacy Education), 2023 –
• Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Faculty of Education (Master of Educational Technology program & Department of Language and Literacy Education), 2018 – 2023
• Educational Consultant and Director, Changing Eye Educational Consulting, 2010 –
• Program Director, Evaluation & Learning Analytics, UBC Faculty of Arts, 2010 – 2017
• Course Developer & Online Instructor, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada, 2016
• Online Instructor & Course Developer, Master of Educational Technology program, 2005 & UBC Faculty of Education 2012 –
• Instructor & Course Designer, Integrated Sciences Program, UBC Faculty of Science, 2011-2014
• Curriculum development, Ritsumeikan-UBC Exchange Program, UBC Faculty of Education, 2012-2013
• Online Instructor, Course Designer & Course Coordinator, Department of Sociology 2005-2013, UBC Faculty of Arts
• Research Associate, Learning Technologies & eLearning, Science Centre for Learning & Teaching, UBC Faculty of Science, 2005-2010, (Acting Director, 2008)
• Research Associate, eLearning, Centre for Managing and Planning eLearning (MAPLE), UBC Distance Education & Technology, 2001-2004
• Program Manager & Instructor, Educational Programs, UBC Centre for Intercultural Communication, 2000-2005
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, UBC Faculty of Medicine, 1999-2000

Relevant consulting

• UWC Pearson College, 2026
  AI literacy training for students and faculty.
  
• Dr. Elske Ammenwerth & team, UMIT University, Austria, 2020-2023
  Consultant on project “LA-CoI: Representation of a Community of Inquiry in cooperative online-based courses through learning analytics”
  
• UBC Department of Medical Genetics, 2020
  Advising on learning design and evaluation of a new online Graduate Certificate in Genomic Counselling.
  
• Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand,  2014 – 2017.
  Training for working group in learning analytics planning; periodic consulting on learning analytics.
  
• Tertiary Accord of New Zealand, 2013 – 2015.
  Training for senior leadership in strategic planning for learning analytics implementation; periodic assistance with review of available learning analytics tools and applications.

Professional memberships and affiliations

• Member, Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA), 2020-
• Member, Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 2019-
• Member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), 2014-
• Member of the Executive Committee (Secretary/Communications), Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), 2015 – 2019.
• Institutional host, co-chair and lead coordinator, Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2019 hosted at UBC for the Society of Learning Analytics Research, June 2019.
• Chair for Posters and Demos, Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference 2017, Vancouver, Canada, March 2017.
• Workshop co-designer & co-lead, Analyzing Temporal Data: Theory & Tools, Learning Analytics Summer Institute, June 27-29 2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• Participant (representing UBC), Bayview Alliance Steering Committee annual meeting, Washington DC, June 2016.
• Chair for Workshops and Tutorials, Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2016.
• Founder/Director, First Annual UBC Learning Analytics Hackathon, October 2015
• Keynote Speaker, Learning: Quantified and Personal, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, May 5, 2015
• Founder/Coordinator UBC LAVA (Learning Analytics/Visual Analytics) Special Interest Group, 2014 –
• Member of the Steering Committee, SFU Graduate Liberal Studies Program, 2008-2010
• Reviewer, Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conferences, 2011 –
• Conference Co-chair, Webmaster and Member of the Executive Committee, Cultural Attitudes to Technology and Communication conferences, 2010
• Reviewer: Journal of Learning Analytics, Transactions on Learning Technologies, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, and other relevant journals, 2009 –
• Patron, UWC Pearson College , 2004 –

A comprehensive resumé is available upon request.