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  Elizabeth Owen

  Director of Learning and Data Science at Age of Learning

   
  

  Elizabeth Owen

  Director of Learning and Data Science at Age of Learning

   

  Elizabeth Owen holds a doctorate in digital media—focused in game-based learning analytics—from the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Education. Currently Director of Learning and Data Science at Age of Learning, she is committed to leveraging data science to optimize adaptive, engaging learning systems. Previously a data scientist and learning designer with GlassLab Games, LRNG, and Metacog, Elizabeth’s doctoral roots lie with the Games+Learning+Society research and game development lab. Collaborators include EA, Zynga, and Popcap games, and Dr. Ryan Baker at the University of Pennsylvania in ongoing Educational Data Mining. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Owen was a K-12 educator for a decade, and founding teacher at a charter school in Los Angeles—LAAAE.org.

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  Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

  Wasserman Dean at UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

     
  

  Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

  Wasserman Dean at UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

     

  Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, the Wasserman Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is a psychological anthropologist and a scholar of Globalization, Migration, and Education. He is the award-winning author and co-author of volumes published by Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, inter alia. The recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, Dean Suárez-Orozco is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education and a Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the for the Advancement of Teaching. He has served as Special Advisor to the Chief Prosecutor, The International Criminal Court and has authored multiple texts for Pope Francis’ Pontifical Academies. At Harvard, he was the Thomas Professor of Education, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Harvard Immigration Project. At NYU he was the inaugural Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education. In 2009-10 he was the Richard Fisher Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has been Visiting Professor in Paris (EHESS), Barcelona, and Leuven and has lectured at the German Foreign Office, the Mexican Foreign Office, the Spanish Foreign Office, The Vatican, US Congress, the UN, US Congress, Davos, and in multiple other scholarly and policy venues in the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. An immigrant from Argentina, he is a product of the California Master Plan, commencing his studies in Community College (where 40 years ago he met Carola Suárez-Orozco, the eminent psychologist and scholar of immigration), and transferring to U.C. Berkeley where he received his AB, MA and Ph. D.

  In January of 2018 His Holiness Pope Francis appointed Dean Suárez-Orozco to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

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  Bror Saxberg

  Vice President, Learning Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

   
  

  Bror Saxberg

  Vice President, Learning Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

   

  As Vice President, Learning Science, Bror Saxberg is responsible for CZI’s thinking about how to expand and apply learning science results and good learning measurement practice at scale to real-world learning situations across the full span of learning – pre-K, K-16, and beyond.

  Saxberg most recently served as Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan, Inc. where he was responsible for the research and application of innovative evidence-based learning strategies, technologies, and products across Kaplan’s full range of educational services offerings. He also worked to maintain consistent learning standards for Kaplan’s products and services.

  Saxberg speaks often at education, business, and public policy conferences, including: recent appearances at Microsoft’s CEO Summit, TEDx, the Stanford Digital Learning Forum, and the “Education Datapalooza” conference, hosted by the White House and US Department of Education. He is the co-author of “Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age” (2014) with Frederick M. Hess. His articles have been published in a host of academic, educational, and scientific journals.

  Saxberg previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer at K12, Inc., where he was responsible for designing both online and offline learning environments and developing new student products and services. Prior to joining K12, Inc., he was Vice President at Knowledge Universe, where he co-founded the testing and assessment division which became known as Knowledge Testing Enterprises (KTE).

  Saxberg began his career at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and later served as Vice President and General Manager for London-based DK Multimedia, part of DK Publishing, an education and reference publisher.

  Saxberg holds a B.A. in Mathematics and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, both received in 1980. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a M.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University, and also received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1989 and a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1990.

  He is married with three children.

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  Jina Kang

  Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Science at Utah State University

   
  

  Jina Kang

  Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Science at Utah State University

   

  Dr. Jina Kang is an assistant professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Her work focuses on analytical approaches to understand the use of new technologies and methodologies in diverse learning environments, aiming to support educational practices and advances for all stakeholders. Her research explores how students learn complex skills in open-ended learning environments. In particular, she studies diverse approaches of understanding multimodal data derived from different learning environments that could lead to novel insights into learners’ unique behaviors such as solution paths to problems and actions in either physical or digital environments, and better designing learning environments including pedagogical approaches and materials. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin and her postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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