Stephen Slota

Stephen Slota is a leading educational technologist, instructional designer, program administrator, learning theorist, and interactive storyteller who has directed numerous digital education and instructional design projects on behalf of CVS Health, Arizona State University, the University of Connecticut, Intel Corporation, and Pfizer.

Beyond teaching courses like Interactive Storytelling, Accessibility Design, Serious Games, Learning Theory, and Educational Technology, Stephen has co-authored two books, 20+ academic articles (including the well-cited [2012] game-based learning meta-analysis Our Princess is in Another Castle: A Review of Trends in Serious Gaming for Education), and more than 80 scholarly keynotes, panels, and presentations.

They reside near Hartford, Connecticut and spend their free time studying philosophy, history, and science as well as gaming, cosplaying, building with LEGOs, and raising a fine young Bengal cat named Mia.