Leonard J. Waks

Leonard J. Waks was born in Brooklyn in 1942. He attended Queens College and the University of Wisconsin (B.A philosophy, 1964; Ph. D. philosophy 1968) and taught philosophy at Purdue and Stanford. He then joined the education faculty at Temple University, retiring as emeritus professor in 2005. Waks is the author of two books, Technology's School (JAI, 1995) and Education 2.0: The Learningweb Revolution and the Transformation of the School (Paradigm, 2013), as well as 100+ scholarly articles and book chapters and several e-books. He is President-elect of the John Dewey Society. Waks was co-founder and program chair of the National Technological Literacy Conferences (UCEA first prize for creative programming, 1985), and is also the founder of the forthcoming (2016) conference on democratic education in celebration of the centennial of the publication of John Dewey's Democracy and Education, in Washington D. C. His work continues to focus on the relation between emerging technologies and education. He is currently working on a book about massive open online courses (MOOCs).