Justin Olmanson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Innovative Learning Technologies

Justin Olmanson, Ph.D., is a associate professor of teaching, learning and teacher education. He designs education technologies that make new things possible, particularly creative and participatory literacies and language learning practices within multilingual K-12 contexts. He focuses on creating the conditions for ongoing, wide-ranging, open-ended community dialogue about education, learning and technology.

Olmanson studies ecologies of expression in and beyond K-12 classrooms, tracks how education technologies circulate within those contexts and collaboratively designs experiences that support new, personally meaningful, culturally relevant, heterogeneous, longitudinal learning experiences.

He earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction–instructional technology from the University of Texas at Austin. He also earned Master of Education degrees in technology innovation and education from Harvard University, and a Master of Education in bilungual education-curriculum and instruction from the University of Houston.

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