Dave Cormier

of Domestic Recruitment, First-Year advising and first-year success and Project Lead for Student Relations his role is to survey the relationship between the university and the student and improve it where possible. In addition to managing the recruitment and First-year advisement office he is involved in a number of projects including learning analytics and those designed to help students transition from high school to university.

His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English. The pivotal moment of his career happened when he was teaching at Hannam University in South Korea in 2003 surrounded by the papers of 275 writing students and wondering if he had them all. That winter he started using discussion forums to bring all of his students together in a writing community (and to digitally keep track of their work) and he hasn’t looked back. He’s since helped organize online communities of teachers, spoken at events around the world and worked to understand how internet changes what it means to know. His educational exploration partners have included faculty and researchers from well-known universities, and lone teachers in small town classrooms. Some of them are even still talking to him.