Dr. Randy Bass

Dr. Randy Bass is the Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives and a Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he leads the Designing the Future(s) initiative and the Red House Incubator for Curricular Transformation. For 13 years, he was the founding Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).

He has been working at the intersections of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning for nearly thirty years. This includes his role as Director and Principal Investigator of the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year scholarship of teaching and learning that involves 70 faculty on 21 university and college campuses. He was a Pew scholar and a Carnegie Fellow in the period between 1998 and 1999. In 1999, he won the EDUCAUSE Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Undergraduate Education. Afterwards, between 2003 and 2009, he was a consulting scholar for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 

He is the author and editor of numerous books, articles and digital projects, including "Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education" (EDUCAUSE Review March/April 2012); "Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem" (American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2016) with Bret Eynon; and "Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning" (Stylus, 2017), with Jessie L. Moore.