Biography

Annie Rota is Director of Academic Technology for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She leads a team of academic technologists and software developers who support faculty using a wide range of technologies in their courses and classrooms. She is active in Harvard's learning technologies community, and a member of the 2013 cohort of the Educause Institute Learning Technologies Leadership Program. Prior to Harvard, Annie worked in higher education publishing, and served as technical lead for Pearson Education's CourseCompass (at the time, the world's largest Blackboard system). She earned her undergraduate degree at Yale University, her Master’s in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and taught at Boston University's College of Communications.