Biography

John Augeri, PhD, is Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at Ile-de-France Digital University, a 30+ Higher Education institutions consortium in the Paris area.

As a practitioner and researcher, John is focused on the Teaching & Learning dimensions of the Digital Transformation of Higher Education institutions, especially through core topics such as innovative Physical and Digital Learning Environments (he has been running an international comparative study of Learning Spaces since 2016, which was presented at EDUCAUSE and ELI Annual Conferences numerous time), Faculty Development, and institutional & strategic aspects of Hybrid and HyFlex implementations.

John has been giving over 60 talks and keynote speeches on these topics in the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. He is internationally involved as an author, academic paper reviewer, conference proposal reviewer, core member & advisor for several workgroups, and award juror. He is serving as an expert for the European Union Commission in the European Digital Education Hub’s Futuring Squad.

John is co-leader of the EDUCAUSE French Delegation and Editor in Chief of its annual report. He served four times (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023) in the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition Expert Panel, was a member of the 2023 ELI Annual Meeting Program Committee, is a member of the 2025 EDUCAUSE Top-10 Issues, and a member of the EDUCAUSE Review Advisory Board.

John is based between Paris and Tokyo, having been invited six times as a visiting researcher in Japan and currently being a joint researcher at Sophia University.