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David A. Joyner
Hi! I’m David A. Joyner. The ‘A’ stands for ‘A lot of famous people are named David Joyner, so I use my middle initial to differentiate myself.’
I’m an educator, and my passion is for leveraging new technologies to improve student learning, especially at scale. I focus on online learning due to its potential to improve outcomes, expand impact, and reduce the cost to students. Toward these ends, I also look at the roles that artificial intelligence, social communities, interface design, and numerous other factors can play in improving the student and teacher experience at all levels, from K-12 to graduate school.
I’m the Associate Dean for Off-Campus & Special Initiatives and the Executive Director of Online Education & OMSCS in the College of Computing, a Principal Research Associate at Georgia Tech, and the inaugural holder of the Zvi Galil PEACE (Pervasive Equitable Access to Computing Education) Chair. In these roles, I research, teach, and support online students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I teach several classes, and I have authored dozens of research papers (and four books) on topics around learning at scale, computer science education, and artificial intelligence for instruction.
Outside of work, I live near Atlanta with three cats, two kids, one wife, and zero ideas for a clever way to end this sentence.
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Books: Teaching at Scale, The Distributed Classroom, Introduction to Computing, and more.
Teaching: Introduction to Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and more.
Media: News broadcasts, podcasts, webinars, videos, presentations, and more.
Publications: Conference papers, journal articles, book chapters, and more.
Consulting: For K-12 schools, universities, non-profits, corporations, and more.
Blog: Thoughts that should be out there, but that don’t belong anywhere else.
Awards
Georgia Tech Outstanding Professional Education Award, 2023
Presented for contributions to professional education at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Alumni Association 40 Under 40
Class of 2022
Presented for career achievements through 2022
College of Computing Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award, 2022
Presented for work on diversity efforts in the college’s OMSCS program
College of Computing Dean’s Award, 2021
Presented for work on the emergency transition to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19
Georgia Tech Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching, 2019
Presented for work on the OMSCS program and CS1301: Introduction to Computing
Reimagine Education Best Distributed/Online Program Gold Award, 2019
Team lead for award presented for work on the OMSCS program
Reimagine Education Discipline Awards: Engineering & IT
Bronze Award, 2019
Team lead for award presented for work on CS1301: Introduction to Computing
College of Computing Dean’s Award, 2019
Presented for work on the OMSCS program and CS1301: Introduction to Computing
USG Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching, 2019
Presented for work on the OMSCS program and CS1301: Introduction to Computing
Georgia Tech Curriculum Innovation Award, 2018
Presented for work on the OMSCS program and CS1301: Introduction to Computing
Georgia Tech College of Computing Outstanding Instructor, 2017
Presented for work on CS6460, CS6750, and CS1301
Georgia Tech Faces of Inclusive Excellence, 2016
Presented for work on the OMSCS program and in dissertation research
Georgia Tech College of Computing Lockheed Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016
Presented for work on CS6460: Educational Technology and CS7637: Knowledge-Based AI
Georgia Tech College of Computing Dissertation Award, 2016
Presented for dissertation, Metacognitive Tutoring for Inquiry-Driven Modeling
Georgia Tech College of Computing Outstanding Graduate TA, 2014
Presented for work on CS7637: Knowledge-Based AI in Fall 2014
