I'm Ari Bader-Natal. I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help people gain access to new opportunities and create new futures.
I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more. Check us out at sparkwise.co.
From 2019-2021, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College.
Calbright is a fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system designed for working adults.
Before this, I served as Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1 in 2012, and spent 7 years creating new tools to support learning and teaching, including Minerva's signature Forum, tools for formative assessment, and a connected suite of authoring tools.
Back in 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) It has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, Sketchpad has been online and offered at no cost for over 15 years.
tl;dr - Ari does "learning engineering."
- Web: A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable
- Repo: apple/container
- Repo: rahilp/second-brain-cloudflare
- Web: TP Tool Suite — Theory of Constraints Thinking Tools
- Web: TP Tool Suite — Theory of Constraints Thinking Tools
- Web: The Death of the University Degree
- Web: every.to | 502: Bad gateway
- Repo: RogerKWilliams/tp-tools-suite
- Web: When anyone can build a course, the real job is deciding which ones shouldn’t exist
- Repo: vercel-labs/deepsec
- Repo: garrytan/gbrain
- Repo: ether/etherpad-go
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
September 2024
U.S. Patent 12,659,427
U.S. Patent 10,666,696
U.S. Patent 10,541,824
U.S. Patent 9,935,987
U.S. Patent 9,674,243
U.S. Patent 9,578,073
U.S. Patent 9,961,119
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