I'm Ari Bader-Natal. I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help people gain access to new opportunities and create new futures.
I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise radically scales engaging live group learning by letting people connect, solve challenges, and practice skills together in tech-powered small groups. Check us out at https://sparkwise.co.
From 2019-2021, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College.
Calbright is a fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system designed for working adults who lack easy access to traditional forms of higher education.
Before this, I served as Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1 in 2012, and spent 7 years creating new tools to support learning and teaching, including Minerva's first Active Learning Forum, tools for formative assessment, and collaborative curriculum authoring system.
In 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) In addition to serving as a venue for informal learning, Sketchpad has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, this service has been operating for over 13 years.
You could describe my work as "learning engineering."
- Repo: nature-of-code/noc-book-2
- Web: Migrating Your WebRTC Application from Twilio to AWS: A Developer’s Guide
- Liked video: “What’s next for AI agentic workflows ft. Andrew Ng of AI Fund”
- Repo: umd-mith/webvtt-player
- Web: TBM 285: Shared Teams and Apples-to-Oranges Priorities
- Web: The Ecosystem: inside ETH Zurich’s spin-off factory
- Web: Coursera Receives Industry-first Authorized Instructional Platform Designat
- Web: Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Chal
- Web: Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
- Repo: cloudflare/orange
- Repo: xmrit/xmrit
- Web: Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Chal
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