David Wiley, PhD

David Wiley, PhD
David Wiley, PhD
Hello! I'm David. Welcome to my little corner of the web.
I'm an Associate Professor at Marshall University and Co-Chair of the university's AI Steering Committee.
I teach courses in Entrepreneurship and Management Information Systems. My teaching, research, and
consulting happen at the intersection of generative AI, open education, entrepreneurship, instructional
design, and student success.
I'm also Dean of the WV Governor's School for Entrepreneurship, Director of
The Brad D. Smith
Student Incubator
, and one of the founders of the
open educational resources
(OER)
movement. I hold a BFA in Music from Marshall University and a PhD in Instructional Psychology and
Technology from Brigham Young University.
As an academic, I've received several recognitions for my work, including a National Science Foundation
CAREER grant and appointments
as a Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Peery Social
Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of
Business, and a
Shuttleworth Fellow
. As a social
entrepreneur, I've founded or co-founded numerous entities
including
Lumen Learning
Degreed
and
Mountain
Heights Academy
, and was named an
Ashoka Fellow
. I love starting
things, and my most recent startup is
Paper2Public
. In 2009, Fast
Company named me one of
the
100 Most Creative People in Business
. In my
professional community, I was Education Fellow at Creative Commons
from 2013 - 2016 and one of the original authors of the
CC Certificate Program
, as well as President of the
international
Association for Educational Communications and Technology
from 2022 - 2023.
I began my teaching career in 1996 as adjunct faculty at Ashland Community College in Kentucky where I taught
Introduction to E-Business. I then
taught Advanced Web Techniques as an adjunct in Marshall University's computer science department. And then
Educational Psychology
at Brigham Young University as a graduate student. I then held tenure-track faculty appointments at Utah
State University and Brigham Young
University, where I taught courses in instructional design, grant writing, open education, social
entrepreneurship, social media in education, and
other subjects. As an adjunct, I most recently taught IPT 515R Generative AI for Instructional Designers at
Brigham Young University in 2024. At Marshall I teach classes in MIS and entrepreneurship including
Strategic Management Information Systems, Introduction to Databases, and The Brad D. Smith Student
Incubator, where we incubate a range of non-profits, social enterprises, and for-profit companies.
I'm a living organ donor. In 2019 I donated part of my liver to a
good friend
. Learn
more about living organ donation at
UNOS
and
organdonor.gov
I'm an active member of
the
Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
. I served a two-year mission in
Fukuoka, Japan in the 1990s and currently serve in the Stake Presidency of the Charleston, WV Stake.
I was born and grew up in West Virginia, where I currently live with my wife and four
of our five children. I enjoy hiking, running, amateur radio, listening to and making music, reading, and
playing basketball.
You can reach me at
[email protected]
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Honors, Recognitions, and Experience
Distinguished Alumni Award,
Marshall University
Co-Founder,
Lumen Learning
President,
Assocation for Educational Communications and Technology
Recipient,
National Science Foundation CAREER Grant
Simon Fellow,
Carnegie Mellon University
Ashoka Fellow,
Ashoka
Nonresident Fellow,
Center for Internet and Society at Stanford
Law School
Education Fellow,
Creative Commons
Founder and Steward,
The Open Education Conference
Shuttleworth Fellow,
Shuttleworth Foundation
Co-Founder,
Degreed
Innovator Award,
Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition
(SPARC)
Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow, Melvin J. Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance,
BYU Marriott School of Business
Founder,
Open Education Group
President's Lifetime Achievement Award,
The Corporation
for National and Community Service
and the
Office of the President of the United States
Senior Fellow for Strategy,
Saylor Foundation
Senior Fellow for Open Education,
National Center for Research in
Advanced Information and Digital Technologies
(Digital Promise)
OLNet Expert Fellow,
The Open University
Founder,
Mountain Heights Academy
John Deaver Drinko Outstanding Achievement Award,
Marshall University
Scholar / Researcher of the Year,
USU College of Education and Human
Services
Founder and Director, USU Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
Visiting Scholar,
Open University of the Netherlands
Founder,
OpenContent.org
Vice President for Instructional Design,
Neumont University
Chief Openness Officer,
Flat World Knowledge
Design Scientist,
EduMetrics Research Institute
Webmaster,
Marshall University
#78,
Fast Company
's 100 Most Creative People in Business
My talk at TEDxNYED. New York City, March 2010. "Education Is Sharing."
Influence
"Wiley (2000) collated work on the concept of LO [learning objects], which led to significant
amounts of activity by educational technologists and software engineers to devise the systems, processes and
models to enable educators to design, share and (re)use LO (McGreal, 2006; Weller, Little, McAndrew &
Woods, 2006).
With the expansion of the Internet and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) it was also Wiley (1999)
who took another major feature of software engineering - the open licences applied to open source software
that enabled community-driven improvement of the software code - and applied it to educational content.
Wiley's notion of open content, his first attempts at an open licence and the separate but related
developments of the Creative Commons movement and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
initiative then led on to the adoption of the term open educational resources at a United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting, all of these actions stimulated and supported by
significant programmatic funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Ilyoshi & Kumar,
2008)."
Lane, A. & Mcandrew, P. (2010). Are open educational resources systematic or systemic change agents
for teaching practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(6), pp. 952-962.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01119.x
Visual notes from a 2012 talk of mine by
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Music I Like
Jacob Collier
Lauren Daigle
The Real Group
Sara Gazarek
saje
The
Manhattan Transfer
New
York Voices
Harry
Connick, Jr.
Thelonius
Monk
Chanticleer
Take
Lauren
Kinhan
Janis
Siegel
Sara
Evans
Peter
Hollens
Stacey
Kent
David
Hykes
Glenn
Gould
Billy
Joel
Glad
Yo
Yo Ma
Samuel
Barber
Ralph
Vaughan Williams
Lisa
Ono
Dreams
Come True
Sakamoto
Ryuichi
Laura
Pausini
Pizzicato
Five
Yano
Akiko
Wong
Faye
Imai
Miki
, and yes,
Barry
Manilow
Once upon a time I dabbled in composition.
Sketches
is a collection of original short piano pieces recorded in 1991. I still do arrangements
for my church choir and other groups I sing with.
An original arrangement of
The West Virginia Hills
Fiction I Like
Anything and everything by
Brandon Sanderson
The
Way of Kings
Words
of Radiance
Oathbringer
Rhythm
of War
The
Final Empire
The
Well of Ascension
The
Hero of Ages
Elantris
Warbreaker
and everything else!
The Earthsea Cycle by
Ursula K. Leguin
is the one that started it all for me, and Earthsea still
feels like home in many ways -
Wizard of Earthsea
The
Tombs of Atuan
The
Farthest Shore
Tehanu
Tales
from Earthsea
The
Other Wind
Musical Theater
I love musical theater and used to do shows all the time - three a year during my peak period. Brush Up (or
Pick Up) Rehearsals are one of the great joys of life that few people know. Unfortunately it's difficult
for me to find the time to participate in theater anymore. Some of the roles I've played in the past
include:
J. Pierrepont Finch,
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Curly McLain,
Oklahoma
Sid Sorokin,
The Pajama Game
Nanki-Poo,
The Mikado
Dr. Rasmussen T. Finsdale,
Li'l Abner
Perchik,
Fiddler on the Roof
2nd Trio Member,
Trouble in Tahiti
Bud Frump,
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I also had the very great pleasure of serving as Music Director (orchestra, chorus, and actors) for the
Huntington Outdoor Theater production of
Hello, Dolly!
in 1996. That was a blast.
For auditions I almost always sing Sondheim's
Take Me To The World
from
Evening Primrose