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Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

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Andrew Ross is a higher education consultant working with universities, colleges, and large organizations to help them address problems with curriculum, assessment of learning, accreditation, open education resources (OER), and online education. He was the Founding Dean of the Open College and Dean of Graduate Education for Kaplan Higher Education (part of The Washington Post Company until 2014). He was also the Public Policy Coordinator for the Oxford Internet Institute, in Oxford, England. Before that, he taught college biology and genetics, created teacher-training programs for NASA and NOAA, and was a Teach For America corps member in inner-city Washington, D.C.  Dr. Ross is also a food writer and avid tennis player.

Credentials

Education

Ph.D.
The University of Oxford
M.Sc.
The University of Oxford
MS
The University of Chicago
BS
Bard College

Research

Research interests

Competency-based education, assessment of prior and concurrent learning, online higher education, computer-mediated linguistics, online communities, social science methodology (qualitative and quantitative), socio-cultural and clutural-historical activity theory, and video game research.