Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, where he also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in the David O. McKay School of Education's Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling.

David is founder and board member of the Open High School of Utah and Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge. David was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER grant. David is also the Founder of OpenContent.org and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.

David is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), and served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan. David lives in Utah with his wife, Elaine, and their five children.

• BFA, Music (Vocal Performance), Marshall University, 1997. (Voice Teacher: Paul Balshaw)
• PhD, Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham Young University, 2000.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructional Technology, Utah State University, 2001.

• Brandon Sanderson - The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages
• Orson Scott Card - First Meetings in Ender's Universe, Ender's Game, A War of Gifts: An Ender Story, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant,
• Ursula K. Leguin - A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind
• Isaac Azimov - Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
• Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Silmarillion
• Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
• Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End

• Courses I teach
• My paper on the forty day teachings of Christ from 1994

Projects I'm involved in have been the subject of local, national, and international press articles. I'm also frequently interviewed by the media about various issues related to education, technology, and openness. Here are some recent links to articles about my projects or for which I was interviewed. (You can also check the incredible press Flat World Knowledge is receiving on our website).

• The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 10, 2010). Some Participants Criticize Format of Blockbuster Ed-Tech Conference
• Wired (March 8, 2010). E-Book Giveaways Correlate to Higher Print Sales
• Galileu (February, 2010). A reinvenção da universidade
• Ars Technica (February 3, 2010). University finds free online classes don't hurt enrollment
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2, 2010). Free Online Courses Don't Hurt Paid Enrollment, Study Suggests
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 24, 2010). 5 Teaching Tips for Professors—From Video Games
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 5, 2010). In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program
• eSchoolNews (January 4, 2010). Open courseware gains momentum
• The Salt Lake Tribune (December 21, 2009). Utah breaks ground in 'open education' movement
• The Kansan (December 21, 2009). Survival is not mandatory in today's real world
• Corpus-Christi Caller Times (November 30, 2009). Big advantages in schoolbooks going digital
• The Guardian (November 10, 2009). Any student, any subject, anywhere
• Herald Dispatch (October 19, 2009). MU grad foresees big change in education
• The Charleston Gazette (October 19, 2009). Create West Virginia conference tries to harness changing times
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 11, 2009). Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly
• Herald Journal (September 5, 2009). USU OpenCourseWare loses funding: Online program that offers free course content hits hard times
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 3, 2009). Utah State U.'s OpenCourseWare Closes Because of Budget Woes
• Fast Company (September, 2009). How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
• Utah Policy Daily (August 18, 2009). The Future of Higher Education: Two Contrasting Viewpoints
• Educause Quarterly (2009). Openness in Delivering Education and Content
• Toronto Star (June 13, 2009). Gov. Schwarzenegger terminates textbooks
• Christian Science Monitor (June 11, 2009). Schwarzenegger's push for digital textbooks
• Fast Company (June, 2009). The 100 Most Creative People in Business. (I'm #78).
• Deseret News (May 15, 2009). Online schooling gives kids, parents new options for education
• Christian Science Monitor (May 13, 2009). OpenCourseWare: College education, without the student loans
• Deseret News (April 21, 2009). Universities will be 'irrelevant' by 2020, Y. professor says
• Information Today (March 2, 2009). Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries
• Science (January 2, 2009). Opening Education
• Chrnoicle of Higher Education (December 1, 2008). Professor Turns His Online Course Into a Role-Playing Game
• Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 25, 2008). When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities?
• Wall Street Journal. (March 28, 2008). Free Online Courses Are Proliferating.
• The Hindu. (March 24, 2008). Personal learning, research: a re-look .
• Campus Technology. (March 1, 2008). Will Digital Texts Succeed?.
• USA TODAY. (February 27, 2008). Free college courses feed global hunger for learning.
• CNN Money. (January 29, 2008). Cisco to Launch Mediterranean Youth Technology Club (MYTecC) and the Digital Cities Project Aimed at Long Term Economic and Social Development.
• Washington Post. (December 31, 2007). Internet Access Is Only Prerequisite For More and More College Classes.
• Campus Technology. (November 13, 2007). Textbooks: A Value Proposition.
• Education Portal. (October 29, 2007). Colleges and Universities that Offer Free Courses Online.
• InfoWorld Online. (July 24, 2007). You're never alone with Plone. Page 2.
• Heise Online. (March 20, 2007). Brainshare: Novell virtualisiert sich weiter.
• Online Education Database. (March 1, 2007). How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories. (Also Slashdot.)
• Book Chase. (February 13, 2007). Printed-on-the-Spot Books Are Given to Young Utah Students.
• Teleread. (February 12, 2007). Gutenberg classics for some Utah kids?via print on demand.
• Salt Lake Tribune. (February 12, 2007). Portable library builds books on spot.
• Mashable. (January 20, 2007). In-Game Ads, SpiralFrog, Ozmozr Launched, DuggSpace.
• Minger. (January 19, 2007). Ozmozr ? Delicious for RSS.
• WWWhatsnew. (January 19, 2007). Ozmozr - Agrupar el mejor contenido de la web.
• Groklaw. (January, 2007). MIT Offers Free Course Materials on Copyright Law.
• Christian Science Monitor. (January, 2007). How to go to M.I.T. for Free.
• MyVOIPnews. (November, 2006). Forty foundations for the future of open source.
• Linux News. (November, 2006). OpenCourseWare: Open Source at MIT.
• Computerworld Australia. (November, 2006). Ruby on Rails stakes out Java's turf.
• The Herald Journal. (May, 2006). Trenton could get computer center.
• The Hindu. (November, 2005). Online storage alternatives.
• Inside Higher Ed. (October, 2005). Blackboard vs....
• Educause Quarterly. (July, 2005). Open Educational Resources Serve the World.
• The Boston Globe. (July, 2005). The Online University.
• The Hindu. (May, 2004). Gateway to MIT Programmes.
• Black Issues in Higher Education (April, 2004). Utah State collaborating with MIT on courseware.
• CETIS (April, 2004). OLS Pilot Goes Live.
• The Globe and Mail. (September, 2003). MIT initiative could revolutionize learning.
• London Financial Times (March, 2003). Why copyright need not be an issue.
• New York Times. (January, 2003). Steal this book? A publisher is making it easy.
• San Jose Mercury News. (January, 2003). Open-source advocate true to principle.
• IT Business. (January, 2003). Publisher adopts open source model for Linux titles.
• Deseret News. (October, 2002). Corporate trainers, colleges are big on 'blended learning'.
• Change. (July, 2002). What is open course ware and why does it matter?
• Internet2. (June, 2001). Internet2 Showcase: EduCommons.
• WIRED. (June, 1999). Expanding the universe of ideas.
• MIT Technology Review. (September, 1999). A new openness.
• The Economist. (December, 1999). Hacker journalism.
• Time Magazine Digital Daily. (September, 1998). New free license to cover content online.