Complete Vitae (last update, May 2024): Oliver Vitae
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- Leadership: Department Chair, Teacher Education and Learning Sciences (TELS), NC State University College of Education (2022-24); Fulbright Specialist Roster, four-year tenure (2021-25); UNC Faculty Fellow, UNC System Offices (2022); Faculty Mentor for Online Course Improvement Program at NC State, DELTA Offices (2021-22 academic year); Coordinator of Distance and Remote Learning Task Force for College of Education (2020-2022); current Coordinator of LDT Undergraduate program; past Coordinator of Learning Analytics Certificate (2018-2021) and LDT Master's and Doctoral programs (2008-2015)
- Entrepreneurship: Led a faculty team through NC State's NSF iCorps program to needs assess locative narrative applications with area educators (2018); co-founded start-up company Locative Press through NC State's Office of Technology Commercialization and New Ventures (OTCNV) and Office of Research Commercialization (ORC) (2019-2022); transitioned start-up to academic-focused Locative Press Lab with expanded student and faculty representation (2022-present)
- Extension: Led ten study abroad programs on the topic of culture and technology for 178 in-service teachers in England, Finland, Sweden, Czechia, Germany, Austria, and Argentina (2011, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24) with recurring funding in place for future programming; awarded a 2016 NC State Outstanding Extension Service Award; inducted into NC State Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension (AOFEE); three-time nominee for university's global engagement award (2017, 2018, 2019)
- Selected Service Activities: national service--three editorial boards (ETR&D, Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Ed, Journal of Online Learning Research), research chair for ISTE's Global Collaboration Professional Learning Network (2016-17), treasurer for AECT's Division of Distance Learning (2021-present), treasurer for the North Carolina Chapter of the Fulbright Association (2021-present); college committees--college RPT committee (2018-2021), coordinator of Distance and Remote Learning Task Force (2020-2022); university committees--Online Learning Environments Working Group (2017-19), faculty mentor to DELTA's Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) (2021-2022)