Candace Thille

Dr. Candace Thille is the director for workforce and adult learning in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and an associate professor of Education and Neuroscience at Stanford University. Previously, Dr. Thille was Amazon’s director of learning science and the founding director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University and at Stanford University. Her work is in applying the results from research in the science of learning to the design and evaluation of technology mediated learning environments and in using those environments to conduct research at the intersection of human and machine learning. Dr. Thille serves on the board of directors for ETS and has served on the board of directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities; as a fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education; on the Assessment 2020 Task Force of the American Board of Internal Medicine; on the advisory council for the Association of American Universities STEM initiative; and on the advisory council for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources. She served on the working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) that produced the Engage to Excel report and on the U.S. Department of Education working groups, co-authoring the 2010 and 2015 National Education Technology Plans.