Before I put up my first official blog post I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. I'm currently the Director of Course Design, Research and Development at APUS - American Public University System.
So what does that mouthful of title mean? It means that I am a very curious person with a lot of divergent but related interests. Specifically I'm interested in emerging technologies, eLearning, pedagogical theory, statistics and business. So thanks to some very supportive people at APUS I have had to opportunity to explore how all of these different areas converge to form optimal learning environments. Essentially, it is a dream job in which I have the opportunity to play with lots of very cool approaches to eLearning, think about ways to improve options for students and spend time working with other like minded individuals in the field.Beyond APUS, I am the Vice President of Research and Development for Sage Road Analytics. In this position I have the pleasure of working with three incredible colleagues who are all just as curious as I am, but with slightly to dramatically different takes in their approach to arriving at conclusions. These divergent approaches help us bounce ideas off of each other and develop creative solutions to problems we are confronted with.
Ok, so I could probably ramble on about this for pages, but the simplest way to understand what I like to do and what this blog will focus on is to watch the IBM Intelligent Data Management commercial and think about how this can be applied to eLearning. I hope you continue to look in on some of the hopefully, thought-provoking blogs I throw out from time to time.
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