Dave Cormier

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= advocate for Rhizomatic Education


Bio

"Dave Cormier is a web technologies specialist at the University of Prince Edward Island, cofounder of Edtechtalk, and president of Edactive Technologies, a social software consulting firm. He holds a master's degree in education from Mount St. Vincent University and teaches sporadically on a variety of educational topics. His major research interests include the tracking and development of educational technology, the examination of planned and unplanned online communities, and open-source multiuser virtual environments (MUVEs).

Cormier is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Emerge Project in the United Kingdom and has designed and written a variety of grants and projects, including the recently completed Canadian Heritage-funded Living Archives project. He has produced, designed, or participated in over 300 online webcasts in the past three years and speaks regularly at conferences on topics including rhizomatics, effective use of new technologies, and educational project management and design." (http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=person&id=15387)