Recentering Learning
Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education.
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Joshua Kim
PhD, sociology & demography
Assistant Provost for Online Learning Strategy at Dartmouth. Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, and author of the Learning Innovation column at Inside Higher Ed.
I write and teach about the future of the university — learning innovation, online education, technology, and the demographic and economic forces reshaping higher education.
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About
Dr. Joshua Kim is the Assistant Provost for Online Learning Strategy at Dartmouth and a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. His work sits at the intersection of learning science, institutional strategy, and the economics and demographics of higher education.
Josh holds a PhD in sociology and demography from Brown University. He began his career on the faculty at West Virginia University, helped launch Britannica.com's education division in San Francisco, and was one of the original founders of Quinnipiac University Online.
With Edward Maloney, he is the co-author of three books from Johns Hopkins University Press, including Recentering Learning (2024). He is best known for the Learning Innovation column at Inside Higher Ed, where he regularly reviews thesis-driven nonfiction and connects it to the questions facing universities today.
Josh and his wife Julie, a pediatric oncologist at Dartmouth, live in Hanover, New Hampshire. They have two adult daughters.
Brown
PhD, Sociology & Demography
Graduate training in population & social science
Faculty
West Virginia University
Began academic career as a sociologist
Industry
Britannica.com
Helped launch the education division, San Francisco
Founder
Quinnipiac University Online
Original founding team
Now
Dartmouth & Georgetown
Online learning strategy; senior fellow
Books
Three books on the future of higher education.
Co-authored with Edward Maloney and published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
The Low-Density University
15 Scenarios for Higher Education — a scenario-planning framework written in the first pandemic spring.
Find on AmazonLearning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education
The foundational text defining learning innovation as an emerging academic discipline.
Find on AmazonWriting
The Learning Innovation column.
A long-running column at Inside Higher Ed reading the future of the university through books, data, and the people doing the work.
1.9M
monthly readers at Inside Higher Ed
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A conversation with the senior associate dean for executive education.
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Why we should understand what tech billionaires believe.
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3 Questions With CollegeSource’s Drew Lurker
On transfer complexity, degree discovery and turning institutional data into student success.
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Talks & Media
Selected appearances.
A sampling from two decades of keynotes, panels, and press. A complete list is available on request.
In the press
- NPRAll Things Considered — six ways college might look different2020
- PBSNewsHour — fifteen scenarios for the reopening of campuses2020
- ChronicleThe Chronicle of Higher Education — "Can Higher Ed Save Itself?"2021
- Boston GlobeOn technology and the university after COVID-192020
- EdTechNamed among the higher-ed IT influencers to follow2024
- Columbia"Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning" podcast2021
Selected talks
- The White HouseModerated & joined U.S. Dept. of Education innovation convenings2014–2016
- SXSW EDU"Breaking the University From the Inside Out" — higher-ed R&D2016
- AppleHigher Education Leadership Forum — digital learning in the liberal arts2018
- EDUCAUSEAnnual conference keynotes & ELI leadership seminarsmultiple
- CICKeynote, Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction2016
- UniversitiesInvited talks at Brown, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers & moremultiple
Contact
Let's talk.
For writing, speaking, advising, or a question about the column — email is the best way to reach me.
joshua.m.kim@dartmouth.edu
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