Loyola University Chicago

Focus on Teaching and Learning

Keynote

August 16, 2017 

 

Our keynote speaker for the August 16, 2017 event will be Dr. Randall Bass of Georgetown University. Below is the biography that appears for Randy on the Georgetown website.

Bio

Randy Bass is Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he leads the Designing the Future(s) initiative and the Red House incubator for curricular transformation. For 13 years he was the Founding Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).

He has been working at the intersections of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning for nearly thirty years, including serving as Director and Principal Investigator of the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year scholarship of teaching and learning project involving 70 faculty on 21 university and college campuses. From 2003-2009 he was a Consulting Scholar for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he served, in 1998-99, as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow. In 1999, he won the EDUCAUSE Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Undergraduate Education.

He is the author or editor of numerous books, articles and digital projects, including recently, "Disrupting Ourselves: the Problem of Learning in Higher Education," (EDUCAUSE Review March/April 2012); with Bret Eynon, Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem (American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2016); and with Jessie L. Moore, Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning (Stylus, 2017).

Education

  • M.A. and Ph.D. (1987; 1991) Brown University, English and American Literature
  • B.A. (1981) University of the Pacific, English & History