Biography

For two decades, Dr. Jeff Borden has acted as a “trend spotter” for education, with an aim to transform teaching & learning, at scale. Jeff is currently the Chief Academic Officer at D2L, seeking to assist educators (K-20) in leveraging the most efficacious eLearning possible, regardless of instructional modality. Over time, Dr. Borden has served in formal university roles, commercial leadership roles, academic board and steering committee positions, and strategic planning consultancies, all while remaining a professor of both communication and education. From Chief Innovation Officer for a 16,000 FTE university to the Executive Director of a faculty development institute, Jeff has traveled the globe working with leaders and educators from Presidents to Provosts to Principals and Politicians. Promoting his platform of Education 3.0, Dr. Borden has worked with academics, staff, and administrators to effectively promote everything from classroom-based brain science to learning research to cognitive psychology to education technology. In his 20+ years working with educators, Jeff has built a next-generation learning ecosystem to impact both academic quality as well as persistence, wrote and produced a 21-minute, short-film about the “future” of learning in Hollywood, ran an academic “think tank” as the Director of the Research & Innovation Network’s Center for eLearning and is now writing chapters and books specific to all aspects of learning efficacy. Along the way, Dr. Borden has presented keynote, plenary, and workshop messages to thousands of audiences, reaching tens of thousands of educators around the world. From alternate reality, gamified, interdisciplinary experiences to neo-millennial strategies for learning based in the confluence of neuroscience, learning design, and education technology, Dr. Borden has helped practitioners and leaders apply, practice, and strategize the most effective educational practices to reach the widest audiences. Through this lens, Dr. Borden is incorporating his extensive history consulting, teaching, and researching to provide a fertile bed of learning innovation. Jeff continues to blog for various publishers, ed tech organizations, and more, while continuing to research and publish in his fields as well as throughout eLearning contexts.