Jason Rosenblum

Dr. Jason Rosenblum is passionate about moving digital learning experiences towards a justice-based perspective and fueling this work through innovative and critical approaches to pedagogy. As an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Learning Technologies program, he is also Coordinator of the Learning, Equity, Action and Design (LEAD) graduate certificate program, within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarship includes applications of experiential approaches to game design to support learning and cultural awareness, research on participant experiences of sound within educational games, application of mobile games as vehicles for student engagement and best practices on project-based learning in online instructional technology courses. His current research interests include design-justice and game-based learning approaches to curriculum and technology design, while encouraging community involved design and participation in learning. He is currently working on a justice-based game design project with Universidad Panamericana Aguascalientes in Mexico. Dr. Rosenblum also enjoys teaching the peaceful Japanese martial art of Ki-Aikido at his dojo, and playing with his pup, Tango the doodle.