Julie Schell Email & Phone Number

Dr. Julie Schell is the Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Technology and the Director of the Office of Academic Technology at The University of Texas at Austin. She oversees the University’s technology-enhanced learning ecosystem and works to advance teaching and learning through the strategic use of academic technology. She is also an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Departments of Design and Educational Leadership and Policy, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on learning experience design. In her current studios, Dr. Schell and her students are partnering with generative AI to prototype speculative objects and environments designed to improve teaching and learning in education settings. As the former Assistant Dean of Instructional Continuity and Innovation at the College of Fine Arts, Julie led the transition to online learning for thousands of arts and design students and 200 faculty during the CoVID-19 pandemic. Her paper, Designing For Academic Resilience in Hands-On Courses in Times of Crisis: Two Models for Supporting Hands-On Online Learning Drawn From the COVID-19 Pandemic, describes this experience. Julie completed her doctorate in higher and postsecondary education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a four-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Mazur Group at Harvard University. With 25 years of higher education experience, Julie has held positions at the nation's top research universities, including Yale University, Standford University, and Columbia University. A prominent speaker, writer, and consultant on design and pedagogy, Julie has overseen learning and design initiatives with thousands of national and international audiences. She has led learning design and learning projects on-site in Aruba, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Dominican Republic, Germany, and throughout the United States, and at multiple Fortune 500 Companies, including AT&T, Southwest Airlines, and Charles Schwab. Julie has also designed and implemented online learning projects for universities in Cost Rica, Peru, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Africa.

Listed skills include Higher Education, Instructional Design, Curriculum Design, Public Speaking, and 34 others.