Jeff Merrell

Greater Chicago Area United States

Associate Director & Lecturer at Northwestern University

Education

I explore how social collaboration technology might change the experience of learning and teaching in workplaces and higher education. I have the good fortune of being able to do this by teaching in the Master’s Program in Learning and Organizational Change (MSLOC) at Northwestern University and as a member of the program’s leadership team. MSLOC values innovation in learning and teaching and its continued growth creates opportunities for inventive approaches. In the past several years, we developed a hybrid part-online, part on-campus schedule option that expanded our market for part-time graduate students. We implemented Jive social collaboration software as our primary learning an