Toru Iiyoshi is Director and Professor at the Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education (CPEHE) of Kyoto University. He also serves as a visiting professor at the Center for Graduate Education Initiative at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a senior scholar and Director of the Knowledge Media Laboratory at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1999-2008), a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies of the University of Tokyo (2007-2010), and Senior Strategist in the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009-2011).

Dr. Iiyoshi’s current work areas include educational innovation and technology, open education, technology-enhanced scholarship of teaching and learning, and future of higher education systems. 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 member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Technology and Education as well as a juror for major international awards and competitions in the field of educational media and technology.

Dr. Iiyoshi is a co-editor of the Carnegie Foundation book, “Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge” (MIT Press, 2008) and an author or co-author of three books. 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.

Presentation Title: Open Education 2.0: Fostering the Collective Advancement of Learning, Teaching, and Assessment