Biography
Dr. David Wiley is Chief Academic AI Officer and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Marshall University. His teaching, research, and consulting happen at the intersection of generative AI, open education, entrepreneurship, instructional design, and student success. He is deeply interested in how colleges and universities – and their students, faculty, and staff – can transform themselves in order to thrive in the age of AI. He is one of the founders of the open education movement. Dr. Wiley holds a BFA in Music from Marshall University and a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Wiley’s research has been cited over 20,000 times and he has been PI or Co-PI on over $15M in grant funding.
Dr. Wiley has received several recognitions for his work, including a National Science Foundation CAREER grant and appointments as a Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business. As a social entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded numerous entities including Lumen Learning, Degreed, and Mountain Heights Academy, and was named both an Ashoka Fellow and a Shuttleworth Fellow. In 2009, Fast Company named him one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In his professional community, Dr. Wiley was Education Fellow at Creative Commons from 2013 – 2016 and one of the original authors of the CC Certificate Program, as well as President of the international Association for Educational Communications and Technology from 2022 – 2023.
You can learn more about Dr. Wiley at https://davidwiley.org/