David A. Wiley
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David A. Wiley is an Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University
. He is also Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge
and founder of the Open High School of Utah. He was previously Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
, and was also the Founder and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) at Utah State University
. His work on open content
, open educational resources
, and informal online learning communities
has been reported in many international outlets, including The New York Times, The Hindu, MIT Technology Review, and WIRED. Wiley is also a member of the Advisory Committee of University of the People
.
He has received the National Science Foundation
's CAREER award and served as a Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society
at Stanford Law School
, served as the Chair of the NSF’s National Science Digital Library
’s (NSDL) Standards Committee, presented at AERA, AECT, Internet2
, WebNet and recently at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT).
Wiley earned his Ph.D., in Instructional Psychology and Technology, from Brigham Young University in 2000 and a BFA
in vocal performance from Marshall University
in Music in 1997. He has expressed personal interests in, among other things, superstring theory
, Japanese music, world religions (David is a practicing Mormon), and musical theater.
s. On one website, reusability.org, he explains that learning objects are developed to be reused as a solution to the problem of "teacher bandwidth". The "teacher bandwidth" problem is defined as "the number of students we are capable of serving with our distance education offerings".
Fast Company
rated Wiley #78 in a list of the top 100 creative people for 2009.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
. He is also Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge is a publisher of college-level open textbooks and educational supplements founded in 2007 by Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad. Company headquarters are in Irvington, New York. As of December 2010, the publisher has over 74 textbooks in development or published. Flat World...
and founder of the Open High School of Utah. He was previously Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
Instructional technology
In education, instructional technology is "the theory and practice ofdesign, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Definitions and Terminology Committee...
, and was also the Founder and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) at Utah State University
Utah State University
Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....
. His work on open content
Open content
Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
, open educational resources
Open educational resources
Open educational resources are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available for free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone...
, and informal online learning communities
Online learning community
An online learning community is a public or private destination on the Internet that addresses the learning needs of its members by facilitating peer-to-peer learning. Through social networking and computer-mediated communication, people work as a community to achieve a shared learning objective...
has been reported in many international outlets, including The New York Times, The Hindu, MIT Technology Review, and WIRED. Wiley is also a member of the Advisory Committee of University of the People
University of the people
University of the People is a non-profit, tuition-free, unaccredited online academic institution headquartered in Pasadena, California and founded by entrepreneur Shai Reshef in January 2009....
.
He has received the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
's CAREER award and served as a Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
The Center for Internet and Society is a public interest technology law and policy program founded in 2000 by Lawrence Lessig at Stanford Law School and a part of Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School...
at Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...
, served as the Chair of the NSF’s National Science Digital Library
National Science Digital Library
The United States' National Science Digital Library is an open-access online digital library and collaborative network of disciplinary and grade-level focused education providers...
’s (NSDL) Standards Committee, presented at AERA, AECT, Internet2
Internet2
Internet2 is an advanced not-for-profit US networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government....
, WebNet and recently at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT).
Wiley earned his Ph.D., in Instructional Psychology and Technology, from Brigham Young University in 2000 and a BFA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
in vocal performance from Marshall University
Marshall University
Marshall University is a coeducational public research university in Huntington, West Virginia, United States founded in 1837, and named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States....
in Music in 1997. He has expressed personal interests in, among other things, superstring theory
Superstring theory
Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings...
, Japanese music, world religions (David is a practicing Mormon), and musical theater.
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) operates on the principle that "free and open access to educational opportunity is a basic human right". Because it is getting easier to develop and distribute electronic tools around the globe, COSL sees the use of learning objects as a way to bring "open education" to all areas in an effort to fulfill "a greater ethical obligation than ever before to increase the reach of opportunity".Reusability and learning objects
Much of Wiley's work has focused on the development of learning objectLearning object
A learning object is "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective". The term is credited to Wayne Hogins when he created a working group in 1994 bearing the name though the concept was first described by Gerard in 1967...
s. On one website, reusability.org, he explains that learning objects are developed to be reused as a solution to the problem of "teacher bandwidth". The "teacher bandwidth" problem is defined as "the number of students we are capable of serving with our distance education offerings".
Fast Company
Fast Company (magazine)
Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and reports on topics including innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility...
rated Wiley #78 in a list of the top 100 creative people for 2009.
Works
Wiley's publications include:- Conversations About Learning Objects, a wiki follow-up to his first book: The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, available online in its entirety.
- OSOSS (Online Self-Organizing Social Systems) - Crisis / Response.
- Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities.
- Online self-organizing social systems: The decentralized future of online learning. Quarterly Review of Distance Education. (With Erin Brewer).
- Learning objects need instructional design theory. In A. Rossett (Ed.) The 2001/2002 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Learning objects — a definition. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
- The Instructional Architect: A System for Discovering, Recommending, and Using Learning Objects
- Another hypermedia biography on David Wiley, done as an assignment in Fall 2006 by a student in David Wiley's Foundations of Instructional Technology course.
External links
- David Wiley's official website
- David Wiley's Twitter
- The Open High School of Utah
- David Wiley's profile on mormon.org
- Dr. Wiley's page on the School of Ed. - BYU
- Power of Openness to Solve Textbook Access Problems
- 10 Years of Open Education
- Iterating toward Openness
- Deseret News - Universities will be irrelevant by 2020
- on Fast company's 100 most creative people in Business