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Toru Iiyoshi

Director, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education at Kyoto University

Kyoto University

About me

Toru Iiyoshi is the director and a professor of the Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education (CPEHE) at Kyoto University. He serves as an advisor on the instructional design and evaluation of this KyotoUx course. His current areas of research include educational innovation and technology, open education, technology-enhanced scholarship of teaching and learning, and future higher education systems. Dr. Iiyoshi is a co-editor of the Carnegie Foundation book, "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2008).