Lisa Dawley

With over 30 years of experience in educational technology, Dr. Lisa Dawley provides leadership in the award-winning research, design and entrepreneurship of innovative learning technologies and organizations.

Dr. Dawley is a Senior Innovation Fellow at the Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego. She formerly served as the Executive Director. Dr. Dawley was also a faculty member at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education, where she directed the M.A. in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship program. She founded ImagineLab, a UNC initiative to support educational innovation design and entrepreneurship. She is the former CEO and Founder of GoGo Labs, a gamified educational technology spin-out from Boise State University, where she served as professor and chair of the Dept. of Educational Technology. She co-created the Rezzly (fka) 3D GameLab quest-based learning platform, Teen GameLab, and EDTECH Island, a training simulation supporting international teacher education. Dr. Dawley was the principal investigator for Planet Stewards, a DML Badges for Lifelong Learning awardee in cooperation with NOAA, Mozilla, and HASTAC.

Dr. Dawley was co-author of the Going Virtual! research series studying professional development for K-12 online teachers. She received a Top 10 Bestselling Books Award for her text, The Tools for Successful Online Teaching. She was an invited research fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Summer Institute, and recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, San Diego Foundation and HASTAC.