David Joyner

Hi! I’m David Joyner. I’m an educator, and my passion is for leveraging new technologies to improve student learning, especially at scale. I focus on online learning due to its potential to improve outcomes, expand impact, and reduce the cost to students. Toward these ends, I also look at the roles that artificial intelligence, social communities, interface design, and numerous other factors can play in improving the student and teacher experience at all levels, from K-12 to graduate school.

I completed my Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, and now work for Georgia Tech’s College of Computing as its Executive Director for Online Education & OMSCS. In this role, I research, teach, and support online students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I teach several classes, I run the online research lab LucyLabs, and I have authored dozens of research papers (and two books) on learning at scale.