George Veletsianos
Professor
Dr. Veletsianos is a professor in the program and holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in Education and Technology. He has been in the learning technologies space for nearly 20 years and has worked in the US, UK, Canada, as well as consulted with for-profit and non-profit organizations around the world. His research focuses on three areas: (1) design, development, and evaluation of online and blended learning environments , (2) the study of learning experiences with emerging technologies, and (3) learning futures. In these contexts, he studies learners’ and faculty experiences with online learning, flexible education, networked scholarship, and emerging technologies and pedagogical practices.
Education background
- PhD Learning Technologies, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
- M.A. Learning Technologies, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
- B.A. Double major: Computer Science/Economics, Macalester College
Awards (recent)
Apr. 2021 CJLT Editor Award for Best Article of 2020. Awarded by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education and the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, for the article Institutional Perspectives on Faculty Development for Digital Education in Canada.
Feb. 2021 D’Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship. Awarded by the Ireland Canada University Foundation. Host institution: The National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University, Ireland.
- CI 5321: Foundations of Distance Education
Recent:
Veletsianos, G. (2021, Sept 22). The Digital Revolution is Over: Perspectives on post-pandemic teaching and learning. [Online Keynote], Nordic Edge Expo and Conference 2021, KhowHow EdTech, University of Stavanger, Norway.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, Jun. 17). The online learner experience pre- and post-pandemic. In M. Brown (Chair), The Online Learner in the Next Normal: What Valuable Lessons Have Students Taught Us? [Online Symposium]. Dublin City University, Ireland.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, Jun. 9). Student voices and Resiliency in Post-Pandemic Settings. [Online Keynote], Texas State University, Summer Institute: Texas State Tough: Creating Resilient Courses.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, Jun. 8). (Some) Questions in need of Answers in Digital Learning Research. [Invited Online Session], Irish Learning Technology Association, Ireland.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, May 31). Effectiveness, Efficiency, Engagement and Equity in Online and Blended Learning settings. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association(OTESSA) [Online Keynote Session], University of Alberta, AB.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, May 20). Online and Blended Learning in Post-Pandemic Settings. 2021 Symposium on Teaching and Learning: Designing for Student Success in the Online and Blended Learning Environments [Online Keynote Session], Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, Apr. 22). Faculty Hopes and Anxieties About the Near-Future of Higher Education in Canada. [Invited Online Session], Contact North | Contact Nord, Ontario, Canada.
Recent publications:
Books
Veletsianos, G. (2020). Learning Online: The Student Experience. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Veletsianos, G., & Houlden, S. (in press). On the “university of the future”: A critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven. Learning, Media, & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2164862 or pre-print (pdf).
Gosse, C., O’Meara, V., Hodson, J., & Veletsianos, G. (in press). Too rigid, too big, too slow: Institutional readiness to protect and support faculty from technology facilitated violence and abuse. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01043-7 or preprint (pdf).
Veletsianos, G., & Johnson, N. (2023). Canadian Faculty Members’ Hopes and Anxieties about the Near-future of Higher Education. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 48(3), 1-23. https://cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/28319
Houlden, S. & Veletsianos, G. (2022). Impossible dreaming: On speculative education fiction and hopeful learning futures. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00348-7 or preprint (pdf).
Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Thompson, & C., Reid, D. (2022). An evaluation of a microlearning intervention to limit COVID-19 online misinformation. Journal of Formative Design in Learning, 6, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs41686-022-00067-z
Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Reid, D., Hodson, J., Thompson, C. (2022). Design Principles for an Educational Intervention into Online Vaccine Misinformation. Tech Trends, 66(5), 748-759.
Houlden, S., & Veletsianos, G. (2022). A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 34, 820–843. Preprint (pdf) or https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-022-09323-4
Moore, S., Veletsianos, G., & Barbour, M. (2022). A synthesis of research on mental health and remote learning: How pandemic grief haunts claims of causality. The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Journal, 2(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18357/otessaj.2022.1.1.36
Veletsianos, G., Childs, E., Cox, R., Cordua-von Specht , I., Grundy, S., Hughes, J., Karleen, D., & Wilson, A. (2022). Person in environment: Ecological aspects of online and distance learning. Distance Education, 43(2), 318-324. Preprint (pdf) or https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2022.2064827
Johnson, N., Veletsianos, G., Reitzik, O., & VanLeeuwen, C. (2022). Faculty Perceptions of Online Education and Technology Use Over Time: A Secondary Analysis of the Annual Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology from 2013 to 2019. Online Learning, 26(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v26i3.2824.
Email: georgev@umn.edu
Website: https://www.veletsianos.com/