Jason Jones

Jason is the Director of Educational Technology Strategy, supporting the adoption of innovative teaching platforms and ensuring faculty and students know how to use them well. He became obsessed with innovation in teaching even before graduate school, when he was working on training simulations at the Institute for the Learning Sciences. For a decade, he co-edited ProfHacker, a site about teaching, technology, and productivity, hosted at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Having worked at a SLAC, a global online university-cum-edtech startup, and now Northeastern, his work explores how pedagogy scales across different institutional and cultural contexts.Jason holds a doctorate in Victorian literature and psychoanalytic studies from Emory University. His book, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature was published by Ohio State UP. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Letters of Samuel Beckett Project. He supports Liverpool Football Club, goes to more rock shows than is strictly healthful, and is devoted to his boxer.