Dr. Julie Schell is the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Technology and the Director of the Office of Academic Technology at The University of Texas at Austin.  She is an award-winning expert in teaching and learning with over 25 years of experience in higher education. Her signature area of expertise focuses on combining design methods with principles from the science of learning to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences. She gets to blend these two areas of work as an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Departments of Design and Educational Leadership and Policy, where she teaches courses on design education, design pedagogy, and technology-enhanced learning. 

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Established Design and Education Facilitator 

Dr. Schell has facilitated over 200 interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and keynote speeches on various topics related to design, interactive teaching, learning, and technology-enhanced education. She has led engagements worldwide, including in Aruba, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Dominican Republic, Germany, and the United States. She has also facilitated workshops for universities in Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Africa.

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Design x Learning

Dr. Schell's work focuses on how people learn and how to help them learn best. In early 2013, she began exploring design thinking as a content area that many people were attempting to learn but not grasping. This work resulted in, Think Before You Design Think­™️, a popular introductory human-centered design series that infuses the science of learning to increase meaningful adoption of the method. Dr. Schell first launched Think Before You Design Thinking at AT&T and has since delivered it to Fortune 500 companies, school districts, businesses, and non-profit organizations. 

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