InstructionalDesign.org is provided to support students, educators, instructional designers, learning engineers, policy makers, and all others interested in the learning sciences and the art of designing effective learning experiences. Content on the site was created by Greg Kearsley and Richard Culatta with input from many experienced learning designers. If you have thoughts or feedback we’d love to hear from you!

Richard Culatta

Richard Culatta is an education innovator and learning futurist. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Prior to joining ISTE, Culatta was the chief innovation officer for the state of Rhode Island and director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. In these roles he oversaw the creation of programs to improve access to computer science education for all students, expand connectivity to schools across the country, promote personalized learning models and develop the National Education Technology Plan.

Culatta also holds a residency at the design firm IDEO and serves as an innovation fellow at the Masie Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish teaching and a master’s in educational psychology and technology, both from Brigham Young University.

Greg Kearsley

Greg Kearsley is currently an independent consultant who designs, develops and teaches online courses. He has taught at many universities including the University of Wisconsin, the University of Maryland, Nova Southeastern University in Ft Lauderdale, FL and the George Washington University in Washington, DC; was the Chief Executive Officer of Park Row Inc., a software publishing company in San Diego; chief scientist of Courseware Incorporated, a training development firm based in San Diego; and a senior scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Alexandria, VA. Dr. Kearsley received his PhD in educational psychology from the University of Alberta in 1978 and has written many books and articles about technology and education.

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