Gardner Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University

Gardner, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University, and past director of professional development and innovative initiatives for Learning
Technologies and associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, was named one of the
“Top 50 Innovators in Education in 2012” by the Center for Digital Education and Converge
Magazine. Dr. Campbell is widely known for his critique of technologies being used “just” for
facelifting instead of enablers of profound educational change. He writes at his blog Gardner
Writes (http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/).