Randy Bass is the Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives and a Professor of English at Georgetown University. He leads the Designing the Future(s) initiative and the Red House incubator for curricular transformation. Previously, he served as the Founding Executive Director of Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) for 13 years and as Vice Provost for Education for seven years. With nearly three decades of experience at the intersection of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning, Bass has made significant contributions, including a directorship of the American Studies Crossroads Project, the first-ever Web-based project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement for Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in 1994. He also worked as a Consulting Scholar for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and served as Director and Principal Investigator of the Visible Knowledge Project from 2000 to 2005. Bass is the author or co-author of multiple books and articles, including "Disrupting Ourselves: the Problem of Learning in Higher Education," "Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem," "Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning," and "Can We Liberate Liberal Education?"