LiDA Center Staff

Raffaella Borasi – Executive Director

rborasi@warner.rochester.edu
Frederica Warner Professor, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

Borasi’s expertise in mathematics education, teacher education, innovation and entrepreneurship in education, together with her executive experience as the former dean of the Warner School, are informing her new role as director of the LiDA Center. In addition to overseeing the Center’s operations, Dr. Borasi is also overseeing initiatives related to professional learning and is directly involved in supporting Warner’s online initiative, the incubation of the K-12 Digital Consortium, services supporting researchers, and directs the program preparing “digitally-rich” health professions educators. She also teaches core courses in Warner programs preparing online and digitally-rich teaching, and is a co-principal investigator in the two current Noyce grants funded by the National Science Foundation to support the preparation of digitally-rich STEM teachers and teacher leaders.

Eric Fredericksen – Associate Director for Higher Education

eric.fredericksen@rochester.edu
Clinical Associate Professor at the Warner School of Education, and Associate Vice-President for Online Learning. University of Rochester

Dr. Fredericksen is a pioneer in online education.  He has published extensively on a variety of topics related to online teaching and learning in higher education, and he is nationally recognized for this work – as reflected in his current appointment as President of the Board of Directors for the Online Learning Consortium.  In his role as Associate Vice-President for Online Learning for the entire University of Rochester, Dr. Fredericksen provides leadership for all online learning initiatives at our institution.  In his role as LiDA Associate Director, Dr. Fredericksen oversees initiatives related to Learning in the Digital Age as it takes place in higher education.  He also directs the Warner’s programs preparing online teachers, and teaches core courses in that program as well as programs preparing health professions educators and higher education leaders.

Dave Miller – Associate Director for K-12 Education

dmiller@warner.rochester.edu
Clinical Associate Professor, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

Dr. Miller has a unique background that straddles both business and education, with experiences cross-industry as well as in K-12 and higher education.  He has extensive experience in learning management and content development, as well as in organizing and directing high-impact, multi-year projects – including three past SBIR projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education.  He has designed and taught both online and face-to-face graduate and undergraduate courses in education and business, including Warner’s introductory hybrid-online courses in the preparation of online and digitally-rich teachers respectively, and also supported several Warner faculty in their online teaching. Dr. Miller is also an instructor and a member of the curriculum development team in the NSF-funded iCorps program, which supports scientists interested in creating start-ups – especially involving new technologies and their applications.  In his role as Associate Director, Dr. Miller oversees initiatives that focus on K-12 education, including most notably the K-12 Digital Consortium, as well as services for start-up and ed tech companies.

Zenon Borys – Assistant Director

zborys@warner.rochester.edu
Clinical Instructor, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

A former secondary mathematics teacher with a dual degree in mathematics and engineering, now completing his doctoral dissertation at Warner, Mr. Borys has joined the LiDA team in 2020 as its first Assistant Director. In this role, he will support all general Center operations as well as participate in specific funded projects – which at the moment include the Noyce projects preparing digitally-rich novice and master STEM teachers, and the NSF-funded Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier planning grant.

Cynthia Carson –  Program Coordinator

ccarson@warner.rochester.edu
Academic Program Coordinator, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

A former elementary school teacher with degrees in elementary education, curriculum and instruction for mathematics, and online teaching and learning, now completing her dissertation at Warner. Cynthia currently serves in the Center for Professional Development and Education Reform and the Learning in the Digital Age Center to support teachers and coaches in mathematics and technology instruction. She also worked as the director of three research projects focused on developing rural mathematics teachers and coaches, and understanding teachers’ uses of mathematics curriculum. In addition, Cynthia serves as a Warner RSRB Specialist supporting faculty and doctoral students. Her elementary mathematics methods courses challenge students’ conceptions of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics at the elementary level. She brings her classroom and professional development experience as an elementary teacher and coach, as well as her background in educational research and online teaching and learning, to her work in designing and facilitating professional learning for teachers.

Yu Jung Han – Postdoctoral Fellow

yhan18@u.rochester.edu
Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

Yu Jung is a recipient of  2020-2022 LiDA fellowship to support the LiDA Center’s and the K-12 Digital Consortium’s website development, as well as the LiDA Series’ organization, in addition to providing support to specific initiatives. She has designed and taught online courses at Warner after completing our Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching.

Md Mamunur Rashid – Doctoral Research Assistant

mrashid5@u.rochester.edu
Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

Md Mamunur Rashid is a Ph.D. student in the Teaching and Curriculum program at the Warner School of Education. Previously, he attended the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program at New York University, New York. His research interests are primarily in educational communication and technology. Mamunur is also a photographer and a video maker.