Brief Biography
Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology in the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University . David also serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling with responsibility for the research unit, where he directs the Open Education Group. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.
David was born and raised in West Virginia. He is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan from 1991-1993. David currently lives in Utah with his wife, Elaine, and their five children.
Education
Pre-College Program , Music, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989.BFA , Music, Marshall University, 1997. PhD , Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham Young University, 2000.Postdoctoral Fellow , Instructional Technology, Utah State University, 2001.
Honors, Recognitions, and Experience
Senior Fellow for Open Education, National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies (Digital Promise)
Recipient, National Science Foundation CAREER Grant
Nonresident Fellow, Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
OLNet Expert Fellow, The Open University
Founder, Open High School of Utah
Senior Advisor, Flat World Knowledge
Vice President, Neumont University
Director, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
Visiting Scholar, Open University of the Netherlands
#78, Fast Company 's 100 Most Creative People in Business
Co-Founder and Advisor, Consonus Music Institute
Design Scientist, EduMetrics Research Institute
Webmaster, Marshall University
Founder, OpenContent.org
Influence
"Wiley (2000) collated work on the concept of LO [learning objects], which led to significant amounts of activity by educational technologists and software engineers to devise the systems, processes and models to enable educators to design, share and (re)use LO (McGreal, 2006; Weller, Little, McAndrew & Woods, 2006).
With the expansion of the Internet and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) it was also Wiley (1999) who took another major feature of software engineering - the open licences applied to open source software that enabled community-driven improvement of the software code - and applied it to educational content. Wiley's notion of open content, his first attempts at an open licence and the separate but related developments of the Creative Commons movement and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare initiative then led on to the adoption of the term open educational resources at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting, all of these actions stimulated and supported by significant programmatic funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Ilyoshi & Kumar, 2008)."
Lane, A. & Mcandrew, P. (2010). Are open educational resources systematic or systemic change agents for teaching practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(6), pp. 952-962. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01119.x
"David is one of America’s most innovative thinkers on the future of learning. His cutting-edge work is helping America find ways of cutting costs while delivering a world-class education to all our students. Harnessing the promise of technology to drive better results is David’s trademark, and it’s what Digital Promise is all about."
Adam Frankel, Executive Director, Digital Promise
Music I Like New York Voices , The Manhattan Transfer ,Harry Connick, Jr. ,Thelonius Monk ,Chanticleer ,Take 6 ,Lauren Kinhan ,Janis Siegel ,Sara Evans ,Peter Hollens ,Stacey Kent ,David Hykes ,Glenn Gould ,Billy Joel ,Glad ,Yo Yo Ma ,Samuel Barber ,Ralph Vaughan Williams , Lisa Ono , Dreams Come True , Sakamoto Ryuichi , Laura Pausini , Pizzicato Five , Fernanda Takai , Vanessa de Mata , Yano Akiko , Wong Faye , Imai Miki , Barry Manilow .Once upon a time I dabbled in composition. Sketches is a collection of original short piano pieces recorded in 1991. I still do a cappella arrangements for groups I occasionally sing with. One day I'll have to post some of those here...
Fiction I Like
Brandon Sanderson -
The Final Empire , The Well of Ascension , The Hero of Ages ,Warbreaker ,The Way of Kings Orson Scott Card -
First Meetings in Ender's Universe ,Ender's Game ,A War of Gifts: An Ender Story ,Ender in Exile ,Speaker for the Dead ,Xenocide ,Children of the Mind ,Ender's Shadow ,Shadow of the Hegemon ,Shadow Puppets ,Shadow of the Giant ,Pathfinder ,The Lost Gate Ursula K. Leguin -
A Wizard of Earthsea ,The Tombs of Atuan ,The Farthest Shore ,Tehanu ,Tales from Earthsea ,The Other Wind Isaac Azimov -
Prelude to Foundation ,Forward the Foundation ,Foundation ,Foundation and Empire ,Second Foundation ,Foundation's Edge ,Foundation and Earth Tolkien -
The Hobbit ,The Fellowship of the Ring ,The Two Towers ,The Return of the King ,The Silmarillion Neal Stephenson -
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Vernor Vinge -
Rainbows End Nathan Lowell -
Quarter Share Half Share Full Share
Musical Theater Resume
J. Pierrepont Finch, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Curly McLain, Oklahoma
Sid Sorokin, The Pajama Game
Nanki-Poo, The Mikado
Dr. Rasmussen T. Finsdale, Li'l Abner
Perchik, Fiddler on the Roof
2nd Trio Member, Trouble in Tahiti
Bud Frump, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I also had the very great pleasure of serving as Musical Director (orchestra, chorus, and actors) for the Huntington Outdoor Theater production of Hello, Dolly! in 1996. That was a blast. For auditions I always sing Sondheim's Take Me To The World from Evening Primrose .
Speaking Highlights
VIDEO TEDxNYED - Open Education and the Future
See also Marshall University Honors Convocation Address - A Permanent State of Transition , Penn State TLT Symposium Keynote - Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Education , TEDxBYU - An Interdisciplinary Path to Innovation , iSummit '08
Keynote - 10 Years of Open Content
Press Coverage
Projects I'm involved in have been the subject of local, national, and international press articles. I'm also frequently interviewed for expert opinion by the media about various issues related to education, technology, and openness. Here are some recent links to articles about my projects or for which I was interviewed. (You can also check the incredible press Flat World Knowledge is receiving on our website. Ditto for the Open High School of Utah ).
Fast Company (January, 2012). Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple's iBooks
Salt Lake Tribune (January, 2012). BYU
scholar is a leader in advancing education technology
Daily Universe (January, 2012). Future
U.: What will it look like? Futurists say more personalization and technology will become norm
KQED Mind/Shift (December, 2011). Will Digital Badges Carry the Same Weight as College Degrees?
Inside Higher Ed (December, 2011). Open CourseWare 2.0
Education Portal (November, 2011). If We Don't Build It, They Can't Come
Inside Higher Ed (November, 2011). The State and OER
Salt Lake Tribune (October, 2011). BYU-hosted conference explores way to re-invent education
Inside Higher Ed (October, 2011). Shutting Down Open Resources
The Chronicle of Higher Education (June, 2011). U. of Illinois at Springfield Offers New 'Massive Open Online Course'
The Hindu (May, 2011). A
decade of open courseware movement
Book Business (May, 2011). What You Can Learn From Open Access
Campus Technology (May, 2011). OER Glue: 'Use Open Education Resources Where They Are; Integrate With Everyone'
The Music Trades (May, 2011). Music Programs Outside of School
Deseret News (March 24, 2011). Facebook 'friends'
college campuses, Mark Zuckerberg visits BYU
Newsweek (January 25, 2011). Who Needs Textbooks?
The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 28, 2010). New Social Software Tries to Make
Studying Feel Like Facebook
Secretary Arne Duncan (November, 2010). National Educational Technology Plan . Secretary Duncan briefly discusses the Open High School of Utah model as highly innovative and one other schools should consider adopting.
The New York Times (November 1, 2010). For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web
The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 8, 2010). Start-Up Aspires to Make the World 'One Big Study Group'
New America Foundation (September 2, 2010). Open Education in Higher Ed: Textbooks, OpenCourseWare, and the "S" Word
The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 29, 2010). Online, Bigger Classes May Be Better Classes
EdReformer (August 24, 2010). ed Q&A: David Wiley
The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 23, 2010). Online Course Construction Gets a 'Do-It-Yourself' Web Site
The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 25, 2010). High-Tech Help for Low-Income Students
ABC 4 News (May 25, 2010). Students at Whittier Elementary get 24 hour earthquake kits (from the Open High School of Utah)
USA Today (April 28, 2010). Congress rejected grant, but free online courses growing
Inside Higher Ed (April 28, 2010). Open Courses for Community Colleges
USA Today (April 23, 2010). Experts: iPad's bumps entering college market are temporary
New York Times (April 8, 2010). An Open Mind
Education Next (March 25, 2010). What We Can Learn from Utah's Open High
The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 10, 2010). Some Participants Criticize Format of Blockbuster Ed-Tech Conference
Wired (March 8, 2010). E-Book Giveaways Correlate to Higher Print Sales
Galileu (February, 2010). A reinvenção da universidade
Ars Technica (February 3, 2010). University finds free online classes don't hurt enrollment
The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2, 2010). Free Online Courses Don't Hurt Paid Enrollment, Study Suggests
The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 24, 2010). 5 Teaching Tips for Professors - From Video Games
The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 5, 2010). In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program
eSchoolNews (January 4, 2010). Open courseware gains momentum
Press Coverage from 2009 and Before
The Salt Lake Tribune (December 21, 2009). Utah breaks ground in 'open education' movement
The Kansan (December 21, 2009). Survival is not mandatory in today's real world
Corpus-Christi Caller Times (November 30, 2009). Big advantages in schoolbooks going digital
The Guardian (November 10, 2009). Any student, any subject, anywhere
Herald Dispatch (October 19, 2009). MU grad foresees big change in education
The Charleston Gazette (October 19, 2009). Create West Virginia conference tries to harness changing times
The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 11, 2009). Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly
Herald Journal (September 5, 2009). USU OpenCourseWare loses funding: Online program that offers free course content hits hard times
The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 3, 2009). Utah State U.'s OpenCourseWare Closes Because of Budget Woes
Fast Company (September, 2009). How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
Utah Policy Daily (August 18, 2009). The Future of Higher Education: Two Contrasting Viewpoints
Educause Quarterly (2009). Openness in Delivering Education and Content
Toronto Star (June 13, 2009). Gov. Schwarzenegger terminates textbooks
Christian Science Monitor (June 11, 2009). Schwarzenegger's push for digital textbooks
Fast Company (June, 2009). The 100 Most Creative People in Business . (I'm #78 ).
Deseret News (May 15, 2009). Online schooling gives kids, parents new options for education
Christian Science Monitor (May 13, 2009). OpenCourseWare: College education, without the student loans
Deseret News (April 21, 2009). Universities will be 'irrelevant' by 2020, Y. professor says
Information Today (March 2, 2009). Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries
Science (January 2, 2009). Opening Education
Chronicle of Higher Education (December 1, 2008). Professor Turns
His Online Course Into a Role-Playing Game
Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 25, 2008). When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities?
Wall Street Journal. (March 28, 2008). Free Online Courses Are Proliferating .
The Hindu. (March 24, 2008). Personal learning, research: a re-look .
Campus Technology. (March 1, 2008). Will Digital
Texts Succeed? .
USA TODAY. (February 27, 2008). Free college courses feed global hunger for learning .
CNN Money. (January 29, 2008). Cisco to Launch Mediterranean Youth Technology Club (MYTecC) and the Digital Cities Project Aimed at Long Term Economic and Social Development .
Washington Post. (December 31, 2007). Internet Access Is Only Prerequisite For More and More College Classes .
Post Gazette Now News. (November 18, 2007). How to take a course at MIT free -- at home .
Campus Technology. (November 13, 2007). Textbooks:
A Value Proposition .
Education Portal. (October 29, 2007). Colleges and Universities that Offer Free Courses Online .
InfoWorld Online. (July 24, 2007). You're never alone with Plone .
Heise Online. (March 20, 2007). Brainshare: Novell
virtualisiert sich weiter .
Online Education Database. (March 1, 2007). How
the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories . (Also Slashdot .)
Book Chase. (February 13, 2007). Printed-on-the-Spot Books Are Given to Young Utah Students.
Teleread. (February 12, 2007). Gutenberg classics for some
Utah kids?via print on demand .
Salt Lake Tribune. (February 12, 2007). Portable library
builds books on spot .
Mashable. (January 20, 2007). In-Game Ads, SpiralFrog, Ozmozr
Launched, DuggSpace .
Minger. (January 19, 2007). Ozmozr ? Delicious for RSS .
WWWhatsnew. (January 19, 2007). Ozmozr
- Agrupar el mejor contenido de la web .
Groklaw. (January, 2007). MIT Offers
Free Course Materials on Copyright Law .
Christian Science Monitor. (January, 2007). How to go to M.I.T. for Free .
MyVOIPnews. (November, 2006). Forty
foundations for the future of open source .
Linux News. (November, 2006).
OpenCourseWare: Open Source at MIT .
Computerworld Australia. (November, 2006). Ruby on Rails stakes out Java's
turf .
The Herald Journal. (May, 2006). Trenton could get computer center .
The Hindu. (November, 2005). Online storage alternatives .
Inside Higher Ed. (October, 2005). Blackboard vs... .
Educause Quarterly. (July, 2005). Open Educational Resources Serve the World .
The Boston Globe. (July, 2005). The Online
University .
Inside Higher Ed. (July, 2005). Spreading the
Wealth .
The Chronicle of Higher Education. (March, 2005). 'Open Courseware' Idea Spreads .
The Hindu. (May, 2004). Gateway to MIT Programmes .
Black Issues in Higher Education (April, 2004). Utah State
collaborating with MIT on courseware .
CETIS (April, 2004). OLS Pilot Goes Live .
The Globe and Mail. (September, 2003). MIT initiative could revolutionize learning .
London Financial Times (March, 2003). Why copyright need not be an issue .
New York Times. (January, 2003). Steal this book? A publisher is making it easy .
San Jose Mercury News. (January, 2003). Open-source advocate true to
principle .
IT Business. (January, 2003). Publisher adopts
open source model for Linux titles .
Deseret News. (October, 2002). Corporate trainers, colleges are big on 'blended learning' .
Change. (July, 2002). What is open course ware and why does it matter?
Internet2. (June, 2001). Internet2 Showcase: EduCommons .
WIRED. (June, 1999). Expanding the universe of ideas .
MIT Technology Review. (September, 1999). A new openness .
The Economist. (December, 1999). Hacker journalism .
Time Magazine Digital Daily. (September, 1998). New free license to cover content online .
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Glad,
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