Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Dede is a leader in mobile learning initiatives and has developed a framework for improving educational innovations. He also served as a Professor at George Mason University and the University of Houston- Clear Lake. In 2012, Dede was awarded Outstanding Leadership and Dedication to the Education Profession by the Association for Teacher Educators. He also won the National Environment Education Week Green STEM Innovators Award in 2012. Chris Dede received his Ed.D from the University of Massachusetts and a B.S from the California Institute of Technology in both Chemistry and English. Chris has served as a member of

• Dede. C. (2013). Commentary one: Open education – disrupting the classroom. In L. Squires and A. Meisner, Advances in Digital Education and Lifelong Learning: Volume 1, pp. 173-185. London, England: Emerald Press.

• Dede, C., Grotzer, T., Kamarainen, A., Metcalf, S., & Tutwiler, M.S. (2013). EcoMobile: Blending virtual and augmented realities for learning ecosystems science and complex causality. Journal of Immersive Education 1(1) http://jied.org/1/1/2/

• Dede. C. (2011). Developing a research agenda for educational games and simulations. In S. Tobias & J. D. Fletcher (Eds.), Computer games and Instruction (pp. 233-250). Hershey, PA: Information Age Publishers.

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