{"id":490,"date":"2019-05-03T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:53:22","slug":"robert-ubell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ROBERT UBELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-503\" style=\"width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-648x864.jpg 648w, https:\/\/bobubell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bobubell-scaled-1-144x192.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For nearly a decade, Ubell headed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.nyu.edu\/academics\/online\">Tandon Online<\/a>, ranked No. 2 by&nbsp;<em>US News &amp; World Report<\/em>&nbsp;of the nation\u2019s Computer Information Technology online graduate programs. He is Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning at NYU\u2019s Tandon School of Engineering and&nbsp;Senior&nbsp;Editor of CHLOE, an annual&nbsp;survey&nbsp;of higher ed online officers, sponsored&nbsp;by Quality Matters.&nbsp;Ubell consults for universities and edtech companies, including Coursera, NYU and The New School, among others. Over his career, Ubell\u2019s online programs have enrolled more than 30,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipient of the highest honor given for individual achievement in digital education, the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award, Ubell is a Fellow of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__onlinelearningconsortium.org_&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&amp;r=WVyymeMqSYrG_aOKlnOKUQ&amp;m=KAoiodHLHqgiyTxaWoOzsccNa0a72zX9GndMaXxfZRM&amp;s=fJ08wSWcmM-AXxbHc7L6xJB2bB3i7KCRuQruIlbdu4w&amp;e=\">Online Learning Consortium<\/a> (OLC) and a member of the Advisory Board of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__onlinelearningconsortium.org_read_online-2Dlearning-2Djournal_&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&amp;r=WVyymeMqSYrG_aOKlnOKUQ&amp;m=KAoiodHLHqgiyTxaWoOzsccNa0a72zX9GndMaXxfZRM&amp;s=MCqOMRiPVn7KfAGDUDb3xmWrCkCePyTwL1OU0bDV-vg&amp;e=\">Online Learning<\/a>, the journal of OLC, where he served on the organization\u2019s board for a number of years. Until recently, he was a member of McGraw-Hill Education\u2019s Learning Science Research Advisory Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abroad, Ubell has been active across the globe. In China, he headed three blended online master\u2019s at Central University of Finance and Economics and Beijing Institute of Technology. A member of the board of the Lianyungang Universal Vehicle Manufacturing Company, he was honored as a Council Member of the Chongqing International Exchange Association. Ubell consults for Beacon Education, a Beijing company that serves Chinese students enrolled in US online graduate programs. In London, he served as American Publisher of&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>, the prominent science weekly, and launched the journal,&nbsp;<em>Nature Biotechnology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubell was editor of the New York Academy of Sciences monthly magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/ideas-insights\/publications\/the-sciences\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/ideas-insights\/publications\/the-sciences\/\">The Sciences<\/a>, executive editor of a number of major reference works, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/linguistics-the-cambridge-survey\/69DFC6452E11232E347C1DBB09C66A0D\">Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780521417440\/Astronomy-Astrophysics-Encyclopedia-Maran-Stephen-0521417449\/plp\">The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia (Wiley)<\/a> and editor of the multivolume series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/series\/3738?srsltid=AfmBOoo2g28V73mftvDhsEGJotNn376kjhSDNUr4U8jmIl9sBOn66CT7\">Masters of Modern Physics (AIP\/Springer)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A columnist for&nbsp;<em>EdSurge<\/em>&nbsp;and contributor to&nbsp;<em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>&nbsp;and other leading publications, Ubell has contributed more than 100 articles to scholarly and general periodicals and is the author or editor of&nbsp;20 books, with the most recent being <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.routledge.com_Going-2DOnline-2DPerspectives-2Don-2DDigital-2DLearning_Ubell_p_book_9781138025325&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&amp;r=WVyymeMqSYrG_aOKlnOKUQ&amp;m=KAoiodHLHqgiyTxaWoOzsccNa0a72zX9GndMaXxfZRM&amp;s=qD9tcrXsHAFM_MGKwA1dnyJ7vhxpeDA7f27vSrWs1qY&amp;e=\">Going Online<\/a>, published in 2017, and its companion volume, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Staying-Online-How-to-Navigate-Digital-Higher-Education\/Ubell\/p\/book\/9780367477455\">Staying Online<\/a>, published in 2021 \u2014 both from Routledge. Ubell has taught and lectured at leading colleges and universities, including Columbia, MIT, The New School, NYU, University of Rochester, and Stevens Institute of Technology, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Ubell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1EGxv4J2zkyc5ElOqmvqbIFuhxi1Og4sQNvGOIztIuwM\/preview?fd=true\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade, Ubell headed&nbsp;Tandon Online, ranked No. 2 by&nbsp;US News &amp; World Report&nbsp;of the nation\u2019s Computer Information Technology online graduate programs. He is Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning at NYU\u2019s Tandon School of Engineering and&nbsp;Senior&nbsp;Editor of CHLOE, an annual&nbsp;survey&nbsp;of higher ed online officers, sponsored&nbsp;by Quality Matters.&nbsp;Ubell consults for universities and edtech companies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABOUT ROBERT UBELL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-490","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobubell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}