David A. Wiley

Wiley at TEDxNYED, 2011

David A. Wiley is an Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University.^[1] He is also Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge and founder of the Open High School of Utah. He was previously Associate Professor of Instructional Technology, and was also the Founder and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) at Utah State University.^[2] His work on open content, open educational resources, and informal online learning communities has been reported in many international outlets, including The New York Times^[3], The Hindu,^[4] MIT Technology Review,^[5] and WIRED.^[6] Wiley is also a member of the Advisory Committee of University of the People.^[7]

He has received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award and served as a Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, served as the Chair of the NSF’s National Science Digital Library’s (NSDL) Standards Committee, presented at AERA, AECT, Internet2, WebNet and recently at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT).

Wiley earned his Ph.D., in Instructional Psychology and Technology, from Brigham Young University in 2000 and a BFA in vocal performance from Marshall University in Music in 1997. He has expressed personal interests in, among other things, superstring theory, Japanese music, world religions (David is a practicing Mormon), and musical theater.

Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) operates on the principle that "free and open access to educational opportunity is a basic human right". Because it is getting easier to develop and distribute electronic tools around the globe, COSL sees the use of learning objects as a way to bring "open education" to all areas in an effort to fulfill "a greater ethical obligation than ever before to increase the reach of opportunity".

Reusability and learning objects

Much of Wiley's work has focused on the development of learning objects. On one website, reusability.org, he explains that learning objects are developed to be reused as a solution to the problem of "teacher bandwidth".^[8] The "teacher bandwidth" problem is defined as "the number of students we are capable of serving with our distance education offerings".^[9]

Fast Company rated Wiley #78 in a list of the top 100 creative people for 2009.^[10]

Works

Wiley's publications^[11] include:

• Conversations About Learning Objects, a wiki follow-up to his first book: The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, available online in its entirety.
• OSOSS (Online Self-Organizing Social Systems) - Crisis / Response.
• Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities.
• Online self-organizing social systems: The decentralized future of online learning. Quarterly Review of Distance Education. (With Erin Brewer).
• Learning objects need instructional design theory. In A. Rossett (Ed.) The 2001/2002 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Learning objects — a definition. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
• The Instructional Architect: A System for Discovering, Recommending, and Using Learning Objects
• Another hypermedia biography on David Wiley, done as an assignment in Fall 2006 by a student in David Wiley's Foundations of Instructional Technology course.

References

1. ^ D.W. page at the faculty
2. ^ USU-Based COSL to Host International Conference on "Open Education"
3. ^ Lohr, Steve. (2003, January 13). Steal This Book? A Publisher Is Making It Easy. The New York Times.
4. ^ Gateway to MIT's programmes
5. ^ A New Openness
6. ^ Expanding the Universe of Ideas
7. ^ Wiley's biography on UoP official website.^{[dead link]}
8. ^ learning objects
9. ^ Sociability and Scalability in Online Learning Environments
10. ^ 100 Most Creative People in Business: #78 David Wiley^{[dead link]}
11. ^ List of David Wiley's publications

External links

• David Wiley's official website
• David Wiley's Twitter
• The Open High School of Utah
• David Wiley's profile on mormon.org
• Dr. Wiley's page on the School of Ed. - BYU
• Power of Openness to Solve Textbook Access Problems
• 10 Years of Open Education
• Iterating toward Openness
• Deseret News - Universities will be irrelevant by 2020
• on Fast company's 100 most creative people in Business

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