Kyle Bowen (Past Speaker)

Kyle Bowen is director of education technology services at Penn State University, where he leads a group focused on creating and cultivating innovative uses of technology for teaching and learning. Formerly the director of informatics at Purdue University, he lead Purdue's Studio projects initiative - overseeing the development of a comprehensive suite of learning tools that seek to address academic challenges experienced by faculty and students, inside and outside the classroom. A relentless pursuer of technologies that hack the classroom, Kyle is also a regular speaker on educational technology - publishing presentation art that editorializes the latest educational technology trends at classhack.com. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Kyle has taught undergraduate courses on public speaking and science writing. He has co-authored and edited more than 20 books on Web design, development and usability and recently co-founded the learning technology startup company, Skyepack. Kyle has a broad range of experience with learning technology, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, TIME, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.