Dr. Tom Carey
Associate Vice-President,
Learning Resources & Innovation
University of Waterloo
As Associate
Vice-President, Dr. Carey's mandate is to enhance learning at the University
of Waterloo through innovations in teaching and technology [http://avp-lri.uwaterloo.ca].
He previously served as the founding Director of Waterloo's Centre for
Learning and Teaching Through Technology, a university-wide strategic
innovation unit, and has leadership roles in several higher education
collaborations for online learning resources including co-chair of the
Advisory Board for the MERLOT consortium [http://www.merlot.org].
Dr. Carey is a
Professor of Management Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering, and was one
of the founders of Human-Computer Interaction as an academic discipline in
Canada. He was also co-leader of the Workplace Research
theme in Canada’s TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence, where he
directed research projects in workplace learning with government,
not-for-profit and corporate organizations including IBM Canada and the Bank
of Montreal's Institute for Learning.
Before returning to
Waterloo
- where he did his M.Math and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science - Dr. Carey
had management responsibilities in other Canadian universities as Executive
Director of Graduate Program Development and Co-Director of Teaching Support
Services. He has received awards for his pioneering contributions to
curriculum development, for research papers and for corporate-university
partnership.
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