Saul Carliner

Saul Carliner is a Professor of Educational Technology at  Concordia University in Montreal. He is a past chair of the Department of Education, past director of the Education Doctoral Program, graduate programs  in Educational Technology, and the Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning.

Before starting his academic career, Carliner spent nearly two decades in industry, including 12 years at IBM where he worked as a technical communicator and instructional designer and later oversaw marketing communications for its customer education. Afterwards he worked as an executive vice-president of a boutique services firm in Minneapolis. He continues  to  consult for  organizations like the Boston Scientific, Canada School of Public Service, Lowe’s, National Judicial  Institute, PWC Canada, ST Microelectronics, and the Turkish Management Center.

Carliner’s research focuses on the design of instructional and informational materials for the workplace and higher education, the management of groups that produce these materials, and related issues of policy and professionalism. Carliner is a Fellow and past board member of the Institute for Performance and Learning;Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication, past president of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, and a past editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. He serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology and the Journal of Workplace Learning.

Carliner also served two terms on the Faculty Senate of Concordia. In the broader community, he has served as President of Ometz, a human services agency; Vice-Chair of the Brookline (Massachusetts) Commission on the Arts, and Chair of Friends of Fernbank, and is a graduate of several community leadership programs. Carliner has received recognition for his teaching, research, service, and practice. EduFlow named him one of the top 100 Top 100 Influencers on eLearning in the World.