Tom Carey

Dr. Tom Carey is a Professor of Management Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, currently on leave as Visiting Senior Scholar at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario and at the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education at San Diego State University. Dr. Carey has provided leadership for numerous initiatives to develop strategic excellence for learning and innovation. His current projects centre on strategic faculty collaborations to mobilize knowledge for exemplary teaching in higher education:

Ontario (Canada) - Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario: Senior Director, Knowledge Mobilization for Exemplary Teaching and Learning (www.heqco.ca and kmetl.heqco.ca). You can reach me here by email as tcarey in the domain of heqco.ca.

California - Program Director, Faculty Collaborations for Course TransformationS [FACCTS...implementing instructional practices from the Basic Skills Initiative for Developmental Math courses in partner California community colleges, facctsdevmath.edublogs.org/]. You can reach me here by email as tcarey in the domain of projects within San Diego State University - sdsu.edu.


Tom is also a member of the Board of Governors of St. Paul's College at the University of Waterloo (http://www.stpauls.uwaterloo.ca/) and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Knowledge Mobilization (www.cckm.ca).

Past Lives:

From 2007-2009. Dr. Carey served as Founding Director and then Special Consultant for the California State University program for Transforming Course Design. http://www.calstate.edu/ats/transforming_course_design/

During this time, Tom was also Program Director for the MERLOT ELIXR project, fostering collaborations across higher education institutions to create and share digital case stories of exemplary teaching. http://elixr.merlot.org

In 2006 and 2007, Dr. Carey was on leave from the University of Waterloo as Chief Learning Officer of the MERLOT network (www.merlot.org).

From 2002 to 2006, Tom served as the University of Waterloo's Associate Vice-President for Learning Resources & Innovation, where his mandate focused on enhancing learning through innovations in teaching and technology [http://www.learning.uwaterloo.ca].

While at Waterloo Tom has also been the founding Director of the university's Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology, and founding Director of Ontario’s Cooperative Learning Object Exchange. Before returning to Waterloo - where he received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science - Dr. Carey had management responsibilities in other Canadian universities, including Executive Director of Graduate Program Development and Co-Director of Teaching Support Services.

As a faculty member, Dr. Carey was one of the founders of Human-Computer Interaction as an academic discipline in Canada. He was also co-leader of the Workplace Research theme in Canada’s TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence, where he directed research in workplace learning with government, not-for-profit and corporate partners such as IBM Canada, Nortel Networks, and the Bank of Montreal. He has advised numerous higher education institutions and government agencies on learning and teaching strategy, and has received awards for his pioneering contributions to curriculum development, for research papers and for corporate-university partnership.


Recent Research Publications:

Carey, T.T., “Best Practices in Teaching: Section Introduction” and “Craft, Professional and Scholarly Knowledge for Teaching Practices (section commentary)” in Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, ed. Joy Mighty and Julia Christenson-Hughes, to appear Queen’s University Press, June 2009.

Carey. T.T., John Rakestraw, and Jennifer Meta Robinson, Expanding the Teaching Commons in Web 2.0: A New Vision for a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Repository, Academic Commons: Special Issue on New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, February 2009

Carey, T.T., invited Foreword, Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects, L. Lockyer, S. Bennett, S. Agostinho, and B. Harper (eds.), Information Science Reference/IGI Global, 2008.

Carey, T.T., A Knowledge Exchange Network for Exemplary Teaching in Higher Education, http://knowledgexchangenetwork.edublogs.org/, Research report for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2008

Carey, T.T. and G. Hanley, Extending the Impact of Open Educational Resources: Lessons Learned from MERLOT, book chapter in Opening Up Education: Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge in Support of the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, ed T. Iiyoshi and V. Kumar, Carnegie Foundation/MIT Press, 2008.


Recent Conference Presentations:

Carey, T.T., Knowledge EDGES: Collaborative Faculty Teams to Accelerate Innovations in Teaching, presentation at Improving University Teaching (IUT) 34th International Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., July 2009.

Carey, T.T., Using Digital Case Stories to Share Innovations in Teaching, workshop at Improving University Teaching (IUT) 34th International Conference, Simon FraserUniversity, Burnaby B.C., July 2009.

Carey, T.T., V. Lopes and E. Pierre; Building a Knowledge Exchange Network for Educational Development: “Be the Change…”, 2009 Winter Conference, Canadian Educational Developers’ Caucus, Oshawa ON, February 2009.

Carey, T.T., From Commons to Collaboratory: Mobilizing Knowledge for Exemplary Teaching, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Edmonton AB, October 2008.

Carey, T.T., J. Cheng, B. Christie, W.M. Fang and T. Souza, “Digital Case Stories for Faculty Development: Whose Story? Whose Development?”, demo/poster accepted for POD Network Conference 08, Reno NV, October 2008.

Carey, T.T., The Role of Online Knowledge Exchanges in Educational Development (paper) and ELIXR Digital Case Stories for Educational Development (poster), 2008 Winter Conference, Canadian Educational Developers’ Caucus, Vancouver B.C., February 2008.

Carey, T., From Repositories Supported by Communities to Communities Supported by Repositories, Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 07, Singapore, December 2007.