Shelli B. Fowler

Shelli Fowler is the Executive Director of Graduate Development Programs & New Pedagogies in Learning Technologies, a division of the Office of Information Technology, at Virginia Tech. One of her primary responsibilities is to help foster wider adoption of technology-enhanced active learning across all departments and colleges. As a result, she co-created and directs the Graduate Education Development Institute (GEDI), a collaborative initiative between Learning Technologies and the Graduate School at Virginia Tech. GEDI is intended to provide professional development opportunities for the future faculty. She teaches three graduate courses in contemporary pedagogy annually in GEDI. Each year, approximately 120 graduate student instructors take the semester-long, for-credit, graduate seminars, where they develop a pedagogical praxis that addresses the needs of contemporary learners by exploring the critically engaged use of technologies for 21st-century teaching & learning. Shelli is also an Associate Professor in the Department of English. Her research areas and publications focus on critical pedagogy and the integration of teaching, learning, and technologies, and she is the recipient of several teaching awards. Shelli earned her doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin.