EdD in Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice – Harvard University - MA in U.S. History - University of Virginia Educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. Currently serves as the executive director of the PK-12 Initiative, a research scientist in the Office of Digital Learning, and a lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-founder of Ed Tech Teacher. He was The Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He created the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project and writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week. His writings have appeared in Science, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. His forthcoming book: “Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale”.