Remi Kalir

About Remi Kalir

I have 20 years of experience helping teams and leaders collaborate, learn, and thrive.My expertise:I\'m a director-level academic leader, learning innovator, researcher, and former classroom teacher with extensive experience designing, facilitating, and researching human-centered initiatives related to adult learning, professional development, and emerging technologies in education.I\'m an expert at consulting with K-12 and higher education leadership, translating community and learner insights into creative initiatives that meet partner expectations, strategy goals, and local needs—including for interest-driven and technology-enabled learning.I bring to my work a proven ability to lead complex, multi-unit initiatives end-to-end; influence senior leadership; manage teams and mentor direct reports; and execute data-informed strategies to enact educational change at scale.My background:At Duke, I champion pedagogical innovation, teaching excellence, and transformative educational research. My team and I collaborate with faculty to study pedagogy and learning, design research-practice partnerships, and lead grant-funded research initiatives. I also serve as Associate Director of Duke\'s interdisciplinary, living laboratory for design-based research at the intersection of education, technology, and society.Before joining Duke, I was Program Leader and a tenured Associate Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development. I have authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications about learning technologies, digital literacies, and professional development. I\'m also the author of two books with MIT Press:\"Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice\"(2025) and “Annotation” (2021). My research has been supported through multiple grant-funded positions and projects, including as Scholar in Residence with Hypothesis, OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group, and as a National Science Foundation Data Consortium Fellow.As a consultant, I facilitate human-centered design processes to support the professional learning and technology needs of multi-stakeholder teams. I have advised multi-year adult learning and edtech projects sponsored by NSF, NIH, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, among other clients and funders, and have counseled industry, K-12, highered, and NGO leaders on four continents.I earned my PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and began my career at Middle School 22 in New York City.

Experience

1. Associate Director, Center for Applied Research and Design in Transformative Education

   Duke Center For Teaching And Learning

   Oct 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Michigan-Flint

  Master of Arts - MA

• Earlham College

  Bachelor's degree

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD