George Rehrey is the founding director of Indiana University’s Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS). From 2007-18, he was the director of the award winning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program at Indiana University’s Bloomington, leading efforts to fully integrate a program with a 20-year history of success.   

George is the past Chair of the POD Learninng Analytics Community SIG and also serves on the Leadership Hub of the Bay View Alliance, an international network of nine research universities in the US and Canada that are exploring strategies to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods that lead to better student learning and success within STEM.  At the BVA he is leading a Learning Analytics Research Collaborative (LARC) intended to foster faculty wide-spread use of learning analytics in their scholarship of teaching, learning, and student success. 

George’s current research focuses on faculty use of learning analytics, big data and predictive modeling as a way to advance student success at the course, program and institutional levels within higher ed. This research also includes understanding the influence social and economic reward systems may have upon academic development programs.  For more than a decade he has conducted course design workshops at universities and colleges throughout the US.