− | '''Adjunct Professor and Educational Consultant, Simon Fraser University''' <br> | + | '''Assistant Professor in Comparative Studies and Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Teaching Systems Lab''' <br> |
− | Daria Ahrensmeier is a theoretical physicist specializing in physics education and educational development at Simon Fraser University. She did her PhD in particle physics and has postdoctoral experience in adiabatic quantum computing. She has taught students in physics, engineering, mathematics, and other sciences at half a dozen universities, always aiming to improve student learning with new teaching tools, formats, and technologies. Her educational development work ranges from course and program design to professional development for instructors at various stages of their careers. Currently, Daria serves as the chair of the program development committee for the new Quantum Algorithms Institute hosted by SFU and is working with an interdisciplinary network of colleagues to create inspiring new learning experiences.
| + | Justin Reich is a learning scientist interested in learning at scale, practice-based teacher education, and the future of learning in a networked world. He is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. The Teaching Systems Lab designs, implements, and researches the future of teacher learning. He is the instructor for five free, openly-licensed MOOCs about change leadership in education. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He is also the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He was previously the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, where he led the initiative to study large-scale open online learning through HarvardX, and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is an alumni and faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His writings have appeared in Science, The Atlantic, Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. For several years, he wrote the EdTechResearcher blog at Education Week. Justin started his career teaching wilderness medicine, and later taught high school world history and history electives, and coached wrestling and outdoor activities. |
− | '''Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo''' <br> | + | '''Work Stream Manager, Brookfield Institute''' <br> |
| Dr. Mosca is a founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. | | Dr. Mosca is a founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |