Glenn Kleiman is a Vice President of EDC, Director of the EDC Center for Online Professional Education, and a member of the faculty of the Technology in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
A cognitive psychologist who completed his doctorate at Stanford University in 1977, he has worked extensively in the fields of reading research, mathematics education, educational technology, and educational leadership development. The range of his work includes basic research, curriculum development, software development, leading professional development for teachers and administrators, and consulting.
At EDC, he has directed several large scale projects funded by the National Science Foundation, one of which produced the MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically middle school curriculum, published by Glencoe/McGraw Hill. He has been the education chair for the Harvard/EDC Leadership and the New Technologies Institutes and principal investigator on the NorthEast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium (NEIRTEC), and is currently the Principal Investigator of the Optimizing the Impact of Online Professional Development for K-12 Teachers project.
His writings about technology in education span from an early book in the field, Brave New Schools: How Computers Can Change Education (Reston/Prentice Hall, 1984) to a white paper commissioned in 2004 by the U.S. Department of Education on Meeting the Need for High Quality Teachers: e-Learning Solutions. He has also taught at the University of Illinois, where he was a senior researcher at the National Center for the Study of Reading, and at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Contact: gkleiman@edc.org