David A. Wiley

David A. Wiley is Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, Education Fellow at Creative Commons, and Adjunct Faculty of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University where he was previously an Associate Professor. Wiley's work on open content, open educational resources, and informal online learning communities has been reported in many international outlets, including The New York Times,The Hindu,MIT Technology Review, and WIRED. Wiley was also previously a member of the Advisory Committee of University of the People.

David A. Wiley is originally from Barboursville, West Virginia, where he received his undergraduate degree in vocal performance from Marshall University in 1997. He later earned his doctoral degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology at BYU in 2000.

In 1998 by Wiley initiated the Open Content Project for evangelizing Open content with the Open Publication License. In 2003 Wiley announced, the Open Content Project has been succeeded by Creative Commons, where he joined as "Director of Educational Licenses".

He was also Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge in 2007, founder of the Open High School of Utah, and was Associate Professor of Instructional Technology, and Founder and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL), at Utah State University. He has received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award and served as a Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.Fast Company rated Wiley #78 in a list of the top 100 creative people for 2009. Wiley was also named a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business in 2012.

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