Executive Director, Learning Games Network
Alex Chisholm is a media research and development executive who produces transmedia entertainment and educational properties. As the Executive Director and a founding member of the Learning Games Network, a non-profit spin-off of the MIT Education Arcade that bridges the gap between research and practice in game-based education, he oversees of the organization’s program development and collaborations with multiple partners. In recent years, he has developed and managed several projects with NBC Universal, including iCue with NBC News, and the online games for NBC Olympics. Between 2007 and 2010, Chisholm oversaw the production of THE FORGOTTEN WORLD, an online story and game application to help Chinese middle school students learn English; he also managed the implementation of the application, including materials development and teacher training for an evaluation by the U.S. Department of Education (the evaluation report will be published in coming months). Extending this work, Chisholm is Executive Producer of Xenos-ISLE (Integrated Social Education Environment), an open education resource funded by the Hewlett and Gates Foundations to support a broad range of single- and multi-player language learning games. Over the past 10 years, Chisholm has collaborated on research, product, and program development with Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures Imageworks, LeapFrog, NBC Universal, Children’s Hospital Boston, BrainPOP, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Hewlett, Gates and MacArthur Foundations. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University.