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Recent Publications

Culatta, R. & Wilkinson, J. (2009). Currency and Technology: Keeping up or Striking Out. eLearning. [PDF]

Culatta, R. & Jackson, G. (2007). Agile Learning Network: A Mission Imperative. Galileo Award Finalist Papers. Washington: Director of National Intelligence. [PDF]

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    Richard Culatta is a leader in the field of educational innovation. He has worked in K-12, higher education, and corporate training environments as well as private consulting. Culatta regularly presents on educational technology and learning innovations at international conferences such as Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and the Innovations in eLearning Symposium. He has also published in journals including Computing in the Schools and Learning and Leading with Technology.

    Richard Culatta is currently the Enterprise Learning Technologies Program Manager at the Central Intelligence Agency. His work focuses on leveraging technology solutions to create effective large-scale distributed learning environments.

    Before his work with the federal government, Culatta was the learning technologies advisor for the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University and the Director of Operations for the Rose Education Foundation. He began working with instructional technology at the University of Rhode Island where he co-taught the university’s first technology integration workshops for faculty. Since then he has coached instructors and administrators in leveraging social media for learning and provided strategic consulting for organizations across the US and Latin America.

    Culatta is a certified Spanish teacher and active in promoting bilingual and arts education in public schools. He is married to the violinist, Shaundra and lives with his family in Washington DC.

    Presentations & Keynotes

    Learning about Learning from Amazon.com
    Invited Speaker, DevLearn 2009
    San Jose, CA, November 10-13, 2009

    Creating a Mash-Up LMS
    Invited Speaker, Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
    Orlando, FL, October 28-30, 2009

    Mobile learning: Are we there yet?
    Panel Member, Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning, Madison, WI, August 4-7, 2009

    Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enable Learning
    Keynote Speaker, American Society for Training & Development, Jan 15, 2009

    Social Media and Learning: A Perfect Fit or a Close Encounter?
    Panel Member, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, Dec 16, 2008

    Teaching the Way Students Learn
    Invited Speaker, ADL Colab, Washington, DC, Dec 9, 2008

    The Future of Learning Systems
    Interviewee, Educause, Orlando, Oct 30, 2008

    Two Brains are Better than One: Leveraging Online Tools for Social Learning
    Invited Speaker, Learning 2008, Orlando, Oct 27, 2008

    Open-Source Me: A Tour of Free, Indispensable Learning Tools
    Invited Speaker, Learning 2008, Orlando, Oct 27, 2008

    Undercover Training: How the CIA Approaches Teaching and Learning
    Guest Speaker, University of Georgia, Athens, 2 Oct, 2008

    Enabling Social Learning in Organizations
    Invited Speaker, Society for Human Resource Management, Fairfax, VA, 19 Sep, 2008

    Sandboxing: Creating an Internal Learning Innovation Center
    Learning 2007, Orlando Fl, October 22, 2007

     

     


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