PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lead Researcher, NCPRE — 2014- current
Lead Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Leadership and Policy with the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). My responsibilities on this project include:
• Strategy and Planning
• Research and Writing
• Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis
• Education and Policy for R1 University Leadership Research Fellow, ICHASS — 2011- 2014
Research Fellow in Learning and Innovation with the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Supported by high performance computing and computational discovery, my research at ICHASS explored:
• Public Policy, Technological Innovation, and Learning
Instructor/Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois — 2007-2012
University Instructor and Teaching Assistant in the Global Studies in Education (GSE) Graduate Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My work at GSE included:
• Teaching, Course Administration, Grading, Writing/Editing
• Web Development and Technology Training
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2007-2014 Public Policy and Education Champaign, IL
M.A. University of Toronto 2003-2006
Culture, Communication, and Critical Education Toronto, ON
B.A. McMaster University 1992-1996
Sociology and Comparative Religion Hamilton, ON
217-550-2842 www.danielaraya.com [email protected] University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 705 Green St Urbana, IL 61801
DANIEL ARAYA
PHD
CONSULTING
Assistant Research Director, The FLOK Project 2013-2014 Assistant Research Director with the FLOK (Free/Libre Open Knowledge) Project supporting the government of Ecuador. Jointly funded by the Coordinating Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, and the National Institute of Advanced Studies, my work on this project oversaw policy and planning supporting open knowledge systems in Ecuador.
Design Consultant, Provost’s Initiative 2012
Interface designer for mobile application: “Prototyping the Virtual Experiments Mobile App for Developing Freshman Students’ Pre-Lab Chemistry Laboratory Skills” supporting the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education Consultant, Kineo Group 2011
Consultant to the Kineo Group based in Chicago, IL. Kineo specializes in strategic consulting in human resource development for fortune 100 companies. My work with Kineo included strategic analysis, instructional design, and courseware development.
E-learning Director, Unity University College 2004-05
E-Learning Director with Unity University College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia managing the design and development of the country’s first private sector e-learning program (serving over 10,000 students). My responsibilities on this project included
Technology Strategy, Policy Consultation, Curriculum Design, Program Evaluation, Personnel Management, and Resource Procurement.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books
Araya, D. (2015). Rethinking U.S. education policy: Paradigms of the knowledge
economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Araya, D. (Ed.) (2015). Smart cities as democratic ecologies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Araya, D. & Marber, P. (Eds.) (2013). Higher education in the global age: Policy, practice and promise in emerging societies. New York: Routledge.
Peters, M.A., Besley, T. Araya, D. (Ed.)(2013). The new paradigm of development:
Education, knowledge economy and digital futures. New York: Peter Lang.
Araya, D., Breindl, Y. & Houghton, T. (Eds.)(2011). Nexus: New intersections in
Internet research. New York: Peter Lang
Araya, D. & Peters, M. (Eds.) (2010). Education in the creative economy: Knowledge
and learning in the age of innovation. New York: Peter Lang.
Recent Book Chapters
Araya, D. (2013). Towards post-industrial education: State capitalism and China. In D. Araya & P. Marber (Eds.), Higher education in the global age: Policy, practice, and
promise in emerging societies. New York: Routledge.
Araya, D. (2013). Education as transformation: Post-industrialization and the challenge of continuous innovation. In M.A. Peters, D. Araya & T. Besley (Eds.) (2013). The new development paradigm: Education, knowledge economy and digital
futures. New York: Peter Lang.
Araya, D. & Marber, P. (2013). Higher education in the global age. In D. Araya & P. Marber (Eds.), Higher education in the global age: Policy, practice, and promise in
emerging societies. New York: Routledge.
Araya, D. (2012). Internet. In H. Anheier, & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of global studies. (pp. 950-955). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Peters, M.A. & Araya, D. (2010). The creative economy: Origins, categories, concepts. In Araya, D. & Peters, M. (Eds.) (2010), Education in the creative
economy: Knowledge and learning in the age of innovation. New York: Peter Lang.
Araya, D. (2010). Educational policy in the creative economy. In Araya, D. & Peters, M. (Eds.) (2010), Education in the creative economy: Knowledge and learning in the
age of innovation. New York: Peter Lang.
Araya, D. (2010). Collective intelligence. In D. Araya, Y. Breindl & T. Houghton (Eds.)
Nexus: New intersections in Internet research. New York: Peter Lang.
Araya, D., Shang, J. & Liu, J. (2010). ICTs and the green economy: U.S. and Chinese Policy in the 21st Century. In D. Araya, Y. Breindl & T. Houghton (Eds.),
Nexus: New intersections in Internet research. New York: Peter Lang.
Peters, M. & Araya, D. (2009). Network logic: An ecological approach to knowledge and learning. In McKenzie, M., Bai, H., Hart, & Jickling, B. (Eds.), Fields of green:
Peters, M. & Araya, D. (2008). Networks, information politics and the new paradigm of social production. In Smeyers, P. & Depaepe, M. (Eds.), Educational research:
Networks and technology. New York: Springer.
Journal Publications
Araya, D. (Ed.)(2013). Globalization 2.0: Education and development in the BRICs.
Knowledge Cultures, 1(3).
Araya, D., Bauwens, M. & Iacomella, F. (Eds.) (2012). The philosophy of peer learning. E-Learning and Digital Media, 9(3).
Araya, D. (2011). Social media and political agency. Ekopoliti Gundem.
Peters, M.A. & Araya, D. (Eds.) (2011). Transforming American education: Learning powered by technology. E-learning and Digital Media, 8 (2).
Araya, D. & Peters, M.A. (Eds.) (2011). Peer-to-peer networks and collaborative learning. E-learning and Digital Media, 7 (4).
Araya, D. (2010). Cultural democracy: Universities in the creative economy. In Geitzen, G. (Ed.) Policy Futures in Education, 8 (2), 217‐231.
Araya, D. (2008). Review of Kenway, Bullen, Fahey & Robb: Haunting the knowledge economy. Policy Futures in Education, 6 (3), 367-369.
Araya, D. (2007). Design education and democratic innovation in the knowledge economy. International Journal of Learning (Vol. 14).
Policy and Evaluation
Dutta, D. (2011). Lifelong learning imperative in engineering. Washington, D.C. National Academies Press.
Wolowiec-Fisher, K., Linick, M., Geoghegan, C. & Araya, D. (April 2010). Policy
evaluation of the PLAD program university of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Prepared
for the PLAD Program Staff, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Champaign, IL.
Interviews for Publication
Araya, D. (2013) Donald Brinkman (Microsoft Research). E-Learning and Digital Media, 10 (1).
Araya, D. (2012, Vol.11). Interview with Jiang Qiping (Center for Informatization Study, China). Review of Contemporary Philosophy.
Araya, D. (2012, February). Vivek Wadhwa (Singularity University). HPC Wire. Araya, D. (2012, January). Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram Research). HPC Wire. Araya, D. (2011, December). Theo Gray (Wolfram Research). HPC Wire. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Araya, D. (2014, November). Massive Online Courses in the Network Society. Presented at The 2014 MOOC Conference. Quito, Ecuador.
Araya, D. (2013, March). Global Higher Education and the Rise of the Superclass. Presented at The 2013 Digital Media and Learning Conference. Chicago, IL. Araya, D. (2012, July). Education policy and the age of innovation. Presented at Singularity University’s Summer Program. Mountain View, CA.
Araya, D. (2012, June). U.S. education policy as industrial policy. Paper presented at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Microsoft Research Cambridge, MA.
Araya, D. (2011, October). Education in the age of collective intelligence. Research presented at the Wikisym Doctoral Symposium. Stanford University.
Araya, D. (2011, October). Peer-to-peer learning ecosystems. Poster presentation at Wikisym 2011. Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA.
Araya, D. (2011, April). Interpreting U.S. educational policy in the digital age. Dissertation thesis presented at the Global Studies in Education Spring Seminar. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Araya, D. (2010, May). Session Chair. Global Studies Conference- North America. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Araya, D. (2009, July). Education in the creative economy. Paper presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Program, Brisbane, Australia.
SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS Emerging Education Policy Scholars (2014)
Selected for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Emerging Education Policy Scholars hosted in Washington, DC.
PASI Summer Institute (2013)
“Methods in Computation-based Discovery” Summer Institute hosted by the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) at the Universidad Del Valle De in Guatemala. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation.
Singularity University (2012)
Selected for Singularity University's Graduate Studies Program at NASA Research in Silicon Valley.
Summer Institute at Microsoft Research (2012)
Digital Media and Learning (DML) Research Associates Summer Institute at Microsoft Research, New England. Hosted by danah boyd, the DML Summer Institute examines the intersection of innovation and public policy and their impact on digital media and learning.
WikiSym Doctoral Symposium at Microsoft Research (2011)
Wikisym Doctoral Symposium hosted at Stanford University and Microsoft Research in Palo Alto.
University Of California SECT VII (2011)
University Of California Humanities Research Institute’s 2011 Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT VII) hosted at the University of Hawaii. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program (2009)
Oxford Internet Institute’s (OII) 2009 Summer Doctoral Programme hosted by Queensland University in Brisbane, Australia.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Director of Overseas Affairs (2014)
Smart Cities in China Peking University Advisor (2013)
Eduhack Hackathon OISE-University of Toronto Research Affiliate (2012-2014)
The Martin Prosperity Institute Rotman School of Management University of Toronto
Research Associate (2012-present)
Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
University of California Humanities Research Institute Proposal Reviewer at NSF (2012)
Proposal Review Panel National Science Foundation Editorial Board (2012-2014)
Journal of Global Studies in Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Associate (2011-present) P2P FoundationCampus Ambassador (2011-present) University of Illinois Campus Ambassador Wikimedia Foundation
Manuscript Reviewer (2011)
Manuscript Reviewer for Ubiquitous Learning Book Series Common Ground Publishing
Conference Reviewer (2011) Association of Internet Researchers
Co-Editor (2010-2012)
The Journal of Global Studies in Education
Reviews Editor (2009- present)Policy Futures in Education
217-550-2842 www.danielaraya.com [email protected] University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 705 Green St Urbana, IL 61801