Innovation and Building R&D Capacity in Schools - A Conversation with Jennifer Groff

Jennifer Groff, PhD is an educational engineer, designer, and
researcher, whose work focuses on redesigning learning
environments and systems. Currently, she is the Innovation Fellow
at WISE (Qatar Foundation), where she is leading the development
of their Global Innovation Hub--a platform helping schools
transform for our modern world. Previously, she was the Chief
Learning Officer for Lumiar Education, a network of innovative,
redesigned schools. She has spent much of her career doing
leading-edge work at the MIT on new learning pedagogies and
game-based assessments, and recently earned her PhD from the MIT
Media Lab. Previously, she was the co-founder of the Center for
Curriculum Redesign, an international NGO dedicated to
redesigning the general curricula for the 21st century. 


Previously, she was the Vice President of Learning & Program
Development for the Learning Games Network—a non-profit spin-off
from the MIT Education Arcade, where she led the national Playful
Learning initiative. She also served as the technology
expert on the OECD Innovative Learning Environments project, and
was a Fulbright Scholar to the UK, at Futurelab Education in
Bristol, United Kingdom.


A former K-12 educator, Jennifer was named one of 12 Microsoft
Innovative Teacher Leaders in 2005, one of the Top 100
Influencers in Ed Tech (2017-18) by Ed Tech Digest.


Social Links


Twitter: @jsgroff


Linked: @jennifersgroff


Website: http://learningfutures.global