Rich Dixon is the Senior Director of Innovation at Hāpara, where he focuses on championing the use of OER to help differentiate learning for all students. He is passionate about applying his 25+ years as a teacher, administrator, staff developer, IT director and curriculum coordinator. He is a national speaker who has presented on a range of emerging edtech topics, including OER, digital badges and technology-enhanced pedagogy.
Before recently joining Hāpara, he was the Director of Online Learning at PBLWorks/Buck Institute for Education. He has also been a faculty member of the Education Innovation Alliance and a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.