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Keith Bowen
Keith Bowen is a researcher in the learning sciences at Stanford University, focusing on the application of design and technology to education. He develops and studies innovative programmes that blend best practices in teaching (narrative, discussion, collaboration and problem-solving) with scalable and sustainable technologies (digital cinema, web-conferencing, multiplayer simulation and virtual reality). Working with faculty partners at several universities around the world, he is currently designing, developing and studying a series of Virtual Student Exchange programmes in the fields of international education, global health and international journalism. He has more than ten years’ experience training practitioners in eastern Europe, the Balkans, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Nepal, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as teaching students in the United States and other western countries who aspire to work in these professions overseas. He has developed and scaled blended learning programmes completed by tens of thousands of learners, and has had several educational documentaries distributed by the Discovery Channel.