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As Blackboard's Pedagogical Advisor, Melissa Anderson works with K-12, higher education and corporate institutions to strategize on the most efficacious use of learning technologies in order to maximize academic performance and minimize institutional costs.Melissa joined Blackboard in 2004 as an expert in designing and executing strategy for educational technology. She studies current industry trends in addition to conducting her own research on the impact of educational technologies on a variety of student and organizational outcomes. She is a frequent speaker at national and international industry conferences presenting the pedagogical advantages to using educational technologies within K-12, higher education, corporate and government institutions. Prior to joining Blackboard, Melissa served as the director of instructional technology at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University and previously as the director of educational technology at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Melissa is a member of Kappa Delta Pi (an international honor society in education), American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT) and Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD).She is currently studying to get her doctorate in education from Pepperdine University. She has her MBA and master's degree from Columbia University and her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles. | 