Randall Bass

Randall (Randy) Bass is an American professor of English and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown University. He is a prominent figure in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and digital pedagogy.

Education and career Bass serves as the Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown. He has been a featured fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and served as a Consulting Scholar for the foundation from 2003 to 2009.

In 1999, he was awarded the EDUCAUSE Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Undergraduate Education.

Selected works Border Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) "The Middle of Open Spaces" in Opening Up Education (MIT Press, 2008) "Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education" (2012) in EDUCAUSE Review. "What's the Problem Now?" (2020) in To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.