Robby Robson Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, OR, US

Strategic Standards and Technology Consulting

Corvallis, OR, US

Co-founded Eduworks in 2001 as a professional services company specializing in learning technology and interoperability standards. As CEO for 20 years, oversaw evolution and managed growth of Eduworks, achieving steady growth with a portfolio of products that applied AI to instructional design and skills-based talent management for industry, government.

Piscataway, NJ, US

Actively involved in IEEE governance, standards working groups, and boards within the IEEE Standards Association, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Educational Activities Board, and IEEE Technical Activities Board.

Helped Squirrel AI Learning develop and execute a global standards strategy and advised on emerging technologies and their potential to improve student learning.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Researched standards strategy and worked in the area of intelligent tutoring systems.

Participated in the Willamette Angels from 2012 - 2017 and served on its executive committee. The Willamette Angels raised money from qualified investors through an angel conference and an angel fund. The fund transformed into a professionally managed Willamette Valley Capital fund in 2018.

Joined Board in 2008. Chaired Board 2010 - 2013. Oversaw re-organization from a company owned by its founders and almost entirely supported by SBIR grants into a shareholder-owned corporation with a dual research and commercialization culture and focus.

Chaired a standards committee with work groups in areas ranging from learning object metadata (LOM) to competency definitions and digital rights management. Contributed to multiple IEEE standards as well as to standards developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium and U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning initiative.

Dublin, California, US

Designed Saba Content offering and helped define Saba's content strategy, introduced SCORM, represented Saba in standards bodies, managed integration of Trivantis Lectora as OEM, served on Executive Council.

Corvallis, OR, US

Worked and published in the areas of real algebraic geometry and computational number theory. Co-founded and directed one of the first Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs (in mathematics). Started developing web-based courses and technology to deliver them in 1995. Served as "Education Reform Coordinator" tasked with introducing.

Spent six months as a postdoc at Michigan State University, three years as an assistant professor at the University of Regensburg (Germany), six months at the University of Rennes II (France), two years as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Dortmund (Germany), and a year as research professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research.

Ph.D., Mathematics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics

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