Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes, Academic Faculty Member

Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes is Professor of Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca University. She is Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, and the co-author of open source publications The Guide to Blended Learning (2018), Participant Experience in an Inquiry-Based Massive Open Online Course (2022), and Principles of Blended Learning (2024). In 2019 Martha received an Honorary Doctorate from Mid-Sweden University, the Leadership Award from the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education and later served as a member of the Advisory Group for Digital Literacy with the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education (2021-2022). She was the Virtual Educator in Residence, National University of Singapore (Fall, 2022). She has held major research grants supporting research on the technology-enabled student experience. Her research interest areas include 1) online and blended learning, 2) communities of inquiry, 3) higher education reform and lifelong learning, and 4) leadership in education. She is currently Visiting Professor of Pedagogy at Mid-Sweden University (2018-present).