Biography

J. Philipp Schmidt is VP Technology Innovation at Axim Collaborative, a non-profit organization that was created by Harvard and MIT to address the biggest obstacles to student success in broad access higher education in the US. Previously, he was Director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he led the ML Learning initiative, taught courses, and conducted research on learning communities. He is also a cofounder and board member of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a non-profit organization that provides access to online higher education through public libraries. Philipp served on the founding board of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and is an advisor to a number of non-profit and for-profit education projects. He has received Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellowships.