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Toru Iiyoshi
Consulting Scholar
Toru Iiyoshi is a senior scholar at the Foundation where he works as director of the Knowledge Media Laboratory.
Since he joined the Foundation in 1999, Iiyoshi has led research and development efforts that take advantage of emerging technologies to enable educational institutions, programs, faculty, and teachers to transform the knowledge implicit in effective practice and transformation efforts into ideas, theories, and resources that can be shared widely to advance teaching and student learning. His current work areas include open education, technology-enhanced scholarship of teaching and learning, and collective educational knowledge building and sharing.
He also works with various national and international initiatives, projects, and organizations in an advisory role to provide vision and leadership in the development and distribution of innovative educational technology. He has served as a juror for major international awards and competitions in the field of educational media and technology.
Iiyoshi is a co-editor of an upcoming Carnegie Foundation book, Opening Up Education (MIT Press, August 2008) and an author or co-author of three books including The Art of Multimedia: Design and Development of The Multimedia Human Body (1996, in Japanese) and numerous academic and commercial articles. He received the Outstanding Practice Award in Instructional Development and the Robert M. Gagne Award for Research in Instructional Design from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
He is an educational technologist with a B.A. and M.Ed. in educational technology from International Christian University in Tokyo and a Ph.D. in instructional systems from Florida State University.| Educause's interview with Toru Iiyoshi about the work of the Knowledge Media Lab is available as a podcast. |
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Contact Information:
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
51 Vista Lane
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: 650.566.5155
iiyoshi@carnegiefoundation.org
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Hatch, Thomas, Randy Bass, Toru Iiyoshi, and Desiree Pointer Mace. "Building Knowledge for Teaching and Leaning: The Promise of Scholarship of Teaching in a Networked Environment," Change, 36, no. 5 (September-October 2004): 42-49.
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Iiyoshi, Toru, "A Paradigm Shift in American Higher Education: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Intellectual Philanthropy," Research Institute for Independent Higher Education Series, no. 15 (July 2003): 23-65.
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Perspectives by Toru Iiyoshi
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