Meet the Educational Systemics Team
Shaun Taylor
Research Associate and Technical Lead
Shaun Taylor specializes in curriculum development, technology, and learning systems design. He has taught middle school and high school science and has spent a large part of his career developing science curricula: first through the auto-tutorial biology lab at University of Washington and then with the hands on energy education activities with the Alternative Energy Resources Organization in Montana. He served for 17 years as Vice President for Product Development at Videodiscovery, Inc, Seattle, Washington during which time he directed the design and development more than 30 videodiscs, 44 CD-ROM titles and an complete online science collection, the Videodiscovery Digital Library (VDL). He has unique expertise in creating interactive simulations that use dramatized scenarios to teach and assess higher-level thinking and process skills.
Mr. Taylor won special recognition from the New York Film Festivals for the Science Sleuths series and was nominated one of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers by the Video and Multimedia Producer magazine. To fund the development of science education products, Mr. Taylor has written more than $8.9M in SBIR and other federal grants through the NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and Dept. of Education. He has also developed $1.3M in joint venture product funding. As a research associate with Educational Systemics he has designed and implemented technology for CD-ROM programs, web enabled databases, and online content management systems and correlation tools. He has also worked on a white paper on open source technologies for CoSN and serves as a lead on CoSN’s Open Technologies Initiative. Mr. Taylor has a B.S. in Zoology from University of Washington and a M.Ed. in Science Education from Montana State University.
