Complete Vitae (last update, July 2022): Oliver Vitae
​Highlights:
  • Research: Received $3.0 million in externally funded awards as principal or co-principal investigator (Triangle Community Foundation, Gates Foundation, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, NSF STEM+C, NSF-CNS, NC DPI); three active grants as PI or Co-PI--Burroughs-Wellcome SSEP (2020-22), NSF STEM+C (2019-22), and TCF Borchardt Fund (recurring, annual)
  • Scholarship: Published 100+ book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports
  • Teaching/Presenting: Developed and taught 8 different online courses for LDT programs; presented 120+ conference papers/posters/workshops; named a 2014 i3@UNC Faculty Fellow by UNC Online for online course development; awarded the 2015 NC State Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching & Learning with Technology; invited to serve as Visiting Lecturer by Charles University Faculty of Education, Department of Information Technology and Technical Education (November 2017)
  • Mentoring: Chaired or co-chaired 13 dissertation committees to completion, served on 20 additional completed dissertation committees; chaired 2 thesis committees to completion, advised more than 80 graduated master's students; currently chairing 11 active dissertation committees, and serving on 5 additional dissertation committees; finalist for university's 2018 outstanding graduate faculty mentor award; advisor to numerous students on teaching/research assistantships
  • Leadership: Department Head, Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences (TELS), NC State University College of Education; Fulbright Specialist Roster, four-year tenure (2021-25); UNC Faculty Fellow, UNC System Offices (2022); Faculty Mentor for Online Course Improvement Program at NC State, DELTA Offices (2021-22 academic year); Coordinator of Distance and Remote Learning Task Force for College of Education (2020-2022); current Coordinator of LDT Undergraduate and Doctoral programs; past Coordinator of Learning Analytics Certificate (2018-2021) and LDT Master's program (2008-2015)
  • Entrepreneurship: Led a faculty team through NC State's NSF iCorps program to needs assess locative narrative applications with area educators (2018); co-founded start-up company Locative Press through NC State's Office of Technology Commercialization and New Ventures (OTCNV) and Office of Research Commercialization (ORC) (2019-2022); transitioned start-up to academic-focused Locative Press Lab with expanded student and faculty representation (2022-present)
  • Extension: Led seven study abroad programs for 128 in-service teachers in England, Finland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic (2011, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19) with recurring funding in place for future programming under the program name CIDRE (2022, two Covid-postponed cohorts to Munich and Salzburg); awarded a 2016 NC State Outstanding Extension Service Award; inducted into NC State Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension (AOFEE); three-time nominee for university's global engagement award (2017, 2018, 2019)
  • Selected Service Activities: national service--serve on 3 editorial boards (ETR&D, Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Ed, Journal of Online Learning Research), served as the research chair for ISTE's Global Collaboration Professional Learning Network (2016-17), treasurer for AECT's Division of Distance Learning (2021-present); college committees--anti-racist change agent group (2021-2022), college RPT committee (2018-2021), coordinator of Distance and Remote Learning Task Force (2020-2022); university committees--Online Learning Environments Working Group (2017-19), faculty mentor to DELTA's Online Course Improvement Program (OCIP) (2021-2022)