David Joyner

Hi! I'm David Joyner. I'm an educator, and my personal passion is for leveraging new technologies to improve student learning. Presently, I focus on online learning not through MOOCs, but through large, closed online classrooms. I am most interested in the unique opportunities these classes have for individualizing and personalizing student learning, as well as granting students greater ownership and autonomy over their education. I've seen incredible things happen with online learning at the graduate level, and I'm excited to extend those opportunities to younger students.

I completed my Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech with my thesis, Metacognitive Tutoring for Inquiry-Driven Modeling. After four years at Udacity as the Product Lead for the Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science program, I now work for Georgia Tech's College of Computing as its Executive Director of OMSCS & Online Education. In this role, I teach, develop, research, and support online students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.