I serve as Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, where my portfolio includes oversight of the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation, Academic Integrity, Co-op, Career and Experiential Education, Professional and Continuing Studies, and the Office of the Student Ombuds, along with leadership of initiatives related to open education, classroom modernization, and artificial intelligence for teaching and learning.
I am a Full Professor of Educational Studies with a cross-appointment in Psychology, direct the Inclusive Education Research Lab, and hold affiliations with Brock’s Social Justice Research Institute and Social Justice and Equity Studies program.
Before joining Brock, I worked as a faculty member and academic administrator at universities in British Columbia. Most recently, I served as Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where I led the development of Canada’s first zero textbook cost degree programs and BC’s first university policy on micro-credentials while overseeing the university’s pivot to emergency remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. My work continues to explore how openness can advance equity, learner agency, and more participatory approaches to teaching and learning.
I have delivered keynotes and workshops and collaborated with educators and institutions across North America, Europe, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. My invited addresses include those at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in Botswana, the OER24 conference in Ireland, the Open University of Sri Lanka’s International Research Sessions, and the Open Textbook Forum at RMIT University in Australia. Across these engagements, I work with educators and academic leaders to build capacity for open and inclusive educational practices.
I served as a Distinguished Visiting Teaching Scholar at Trent University in 2023 and as a Visiting Scholar at Dublin City University and Munster Technological University in 2025. I also co-authored a sectoral white paper on open educational practices for Ireland’s European Union-funded N-TUTORR project.
My scholarship has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and industry partnerships and focuses on open educational practices, student-centred and inclusive pedagogies, assessment, and ethical approaches to educational technology and artificial intelligence.
My publications include peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, open psychology textbooks, an institutional self-assessment tool to support open educational practices, and two co-edited volumes on open education: Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science and Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education. Together with Robin DeRosa, I co-founded the Open Pedagogy Notebook.
I have advised the British Columbia Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills on its Digital Learning Strategy, Micro-credential Framework, and Ethical Educational Technology Toolkit. I previously served as an Ambassador for the Global Advocacy of OER with the International Council for Open and Distance Education, supporting implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER, and on the Board of Open Education Global. I am incoming Board Chair of the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association.
My work has been recognized with the Robert E. Knox Master Teacher Award from the University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychology, the Dean of Arts Teaching Excellence Award from KPU, BCcampus’s Award for Excellence in Open Education, and Open Education Global’s Emerging Leader Award. In 2021 and 2022, Business in Vancouver named me among ten leaders in higher education in British Columbia. In 2026, EdTech magazine named me among its 25 higher education influencers to follow.
My community work has included projects and partnerships with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, March of the Living, and Science World. These engagements reflect longstanding interests in social justice, public education, and the relationship between learning and social change.
I was raised in Bombay, India, and moved to Canada as an undergraduate international student before obtaining Canadian citizenship and completing my graduate studies, including a doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of British Columbia. My professional development has included programs in university administration, labour relations, diversity and inclusion, open licensing, academic leadership, and artificial intelligence.
My work has also been featured on podcasts including Teaching in Higher Education and Podagogies, and in publications such as University Affairs.