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Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes

Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes is Professor of Education Innovation at Athabasca University. As a principal investigator for this study, Dr. Cleveland-Innes received funding from the One Child, Every Child initiative, supported by SSHRC's Canada First Research Excellence Fund, to examine Wellness Outcomes and Educational Participation Among Sick Children from Marginalized Populations (2024–2027). She has held other major research grants focused on the technology‑enabled student experience.

Dr. Cleveland-Innes is also Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology and co-author of several open-source publications, including The Guide to Blended Learning (2018), Participant Experience in an Inquiry-Based Massive Open Online Course (2022), and Principles of Blended Learning (2024). She also co-edited The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry (Taylor& Francis, 2024).

Her contributions to the field cross many venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Mid‑Sweden University and received the Leadership Award from the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education. She later served on the Advisory Group for Digital Literacy with the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education (2021–2022). Dr. Cleveland-Innes was the Virtual Educator in Residence at the National University of Singapore (Fall 2022), served as Visiting Professor of Pedagogy at Mid‑Sweden University (2018–2025), and is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education.