Kristen Eshleman is Director of Digital Learning Research & Design (DLRD) at Davidson College. DLRD is an R&D initiative focused on the design and support of experiments that explore new models of a liberal arts education in the digital age. DRLD provides a safe-to-fail space where risk-taking is encouraged and design-based research informs Davidson's digital strategy. She is also Director of Academic Technology at Davidson College, and practitioner in the humanities.