With over 20 years of experience in educational technology, Dr. Lisa Dawley provides leadership in the award-winning research, design and entrepreneurship of innovative learning technologies and organizations.

Dr. Dawley is Executive Director of the Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego. Formerly, she served as a professor of Educational Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship at UNC Chapel Hill School of Education, where founded ImagineLab, a UNC initiative to support teen innovation. She is former CEO and Founder of GoGo Labs, a gamified educational technology spin-out from Boise State University, where she served as professor and chair of the Dept. of Educational Technology. Dr. Dawley co-created the Rezzly (fka 3D GameLab) quest-based learning platform, Teen GameLab, and EDTECH Island, a training simulation supporting international teacher education. Dr. Dawley was primary investigator for Planet Stewards, a DML Badges for Lifelong Learning awardee in cooperation with NOAA, Mozilla and HASTAC.

Dr. Dawley was co-author of the Going Virtual! research series studying professional development for K-12 online teachers. She received a Top 20 Bestselling Books Award for her text, The Tools for Successful Online Teaching. She was an invited research fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences summer Institute, and recipient of grants from the Spencer Foundation and HASTAC. Dawley is a former board member of iNACOL.

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