Trent Batson, Ph.D. Resume

Director, Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning

Editor, Campus Technology's Web 2.0 Newsletter

Most recent:  Communications Strategist, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT

Career:  English Professor at several universities and then director of academic computing at two universities

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• Research Field:  ePortfolios.  Director, The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning; Director,The Web2ePortfolio Initiative; Former Chair of the Board, Open Source Portfolio Initiative (Mellon Funded)
• Qualified to Teach:  Writing in the Digital Age; Business Writing; Technology and Culture.  Professor of English 1968-98; created and directed American Studies Major at Gallaudet University. Taught at Michigan State, George Washington, Gallaudet, Carnegie Mellon, George Mason, Seton Hall and the University of Rhode Island
• Recent Publication:  Opening Up Education:  The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, eds. Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar, MIT Press 2008, as a co-author of a chapter. 

• Current Work:  The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning, see http://sites.google.com/site/aaeebl/ http://aaeebl.wordpress.com; join at http://groups.google.com/group/w2ep/.  
  • AAEEBL is an academia-vendor partnership to help improve ePortfolio practice, implementations, and technology in this century.  Reflective pedagogy and assessment.  
• Most recent employment:  MIT, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, 2008.

• Regular publications:  Campus Technology:  www.campustechnology.com, newsletters, Web 2.0; 35 articles since January 2008; tinyurl.com/batsonarticles
• Director of Information and Instructional Technology Services, University of Rhode Island, 2001-2007, and a member of the graduate faculty.  Set new specifications for classroom design and successfully lobbied the State Government for $6M for 30 new smart classrooms. 

• Batson is a recognized leader in the ePortfolio field in the U. S. as researcher, conference organizer, project developer, writer, consultant, presenter. 

• Batson is a Senior Associate of the Teaching, Learning, Technology Group in Silver Spring, Maryland. 

• He directed 8 medium to large grant consortium projects during the 20-year period from 1985 to 2005.  

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