Complete Vitae (last update, June 2020): 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 9 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: Coordinator of Distance Education and Remote Learning initiatives for College of Education (2020-present); served as Coordinator of LDT programs for 7 years (2008-2015); current Coordinator of LDT Doctoral program (2018-present), co-planner and current Coordinator of new LDT Undergraduate program with accelerated 4+1 Bachelor's to Master's option (2019-present), and co-planner and Coordinator of new Certificate in Learning Analytics (2020-present)
  • 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 Inc. through NC State's Office of Technology Commercialization and New Ventures (OTCNV) and Office of Research Commercialization (ORC) and collaborated with Durham design firm Pathos/Ethos on preliminary wireframe development for locative narrative app (2019-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 (2021, Germany); 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)
  • Service: Review for 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); current college committees--anti-racist change agent group (nominated), college RPT committee (elected), department awards committee (elected); university committees--Online Learning Environments Working Group (2017-19), numerous past DELTA (distance education) committees