Biography
Dr. David Wiley is the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning and Founding Director of the Center for Improving Learning. His work, teaching, and research happen at the intersection of open educational resources, generative AI, continuous improvement, professional development, and social entrepreneurship. He is one of the founders of the open educational resource movement. He is also adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University’s graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology, where he was previously a tenured Associate Professor, and Director of The Brad D. Smith Student Incubator in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Marshall University.
As an academic, Dr. Wiley has received several recognitions for his work, including a National Science Foundation CAREER grant and appointments as a Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business, and a Shuttleworth Fellow. As a social entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded numerous entities including Lumen Learning, Degreed, and Mountain Heights Academy, and was named an Ashoka Fellow. In 2009, Fast Company named him one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In his professional community, Dr. Wiley was Education Fellow at Creative Commons (where he was one of the original authors of the CC Certificate Program) as well as President of the international Association for Educational Communications and Technology from 2022 – 2023.
Dr. Wiley began his teaching career as adjunct faculty in the 1990s, teaching Introduction to E-Business at Ashland Community College, Webserver Configuration and Administration at Marshall University, and Educational Psychology at Brigham Young University (as a graduate student). He then held tenure-track faculty appointments at Utah State University and Brigham Young University, where he taught courses in instructional design, grant writing, open education, social entrepreneurship, social media in education, generative AI, and other subjects. He most recently taught Generative AI for Instructional Designers at BYU and ENT200H The Brad D. Smith Student Incubator at Marshall University during 2024.
David is a living organ donor. In 2019 he donated part of his liver to a good friend. Learn more about living organ donation at UNOS and organdonor.gov.David was born and grew up in West Virginia. He’s an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two-year mission in Fukuoka, Japan. He currently lives in West Virginia with his wife and four of their five children. He enjoys hiking, running, amateur radio, listening to and making music, reading, and playing basketball