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 who lack easy access to traditional forms of higher education.
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 first Active Learning Forum, tools for formative assessment, and collaborative curriculum authoring system.
In 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) In addition to serving as a venue for informal learning, Sketchpad has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, this service has been operating for over 14 years.
You could describe my work as "learning engineering."
- Web: Where It Is, Is What It Is and When It Was, Is What It Means
- Web: WebDev Arena
- Web: Sourcegraph
- Liked video: “How Workers Can Protect their Skills and Experience in the Age of AI”
- Web: Generative AI in Education: From Foundational Insights to the Socratic Playground for Learning
- Web: Scaling Evidence-based Instructional Design Expertise through Large Language Models
- Web: How generative AI expands curiosity and understanding with LearnLM
- Web: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends
- Web: Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
- Web: Report of the AI at Stanford Advisory Committee – Office of the Provost
- Repo: threepointone/partyserver
- Repo: domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
September 2024
March 2024
Bader-Natal, A.
Bader-Natal, A., Fost, J., and Genone, J.
Katzman, J., Regan, M., and Bader-Natal, A.
Levitt, R., Bader-Natal, A., and Chandler, V.
Bader-Natal, A., Lotze, T., and Furr, D.
Bader-Natal, A. and Lotze, T.
Patent pending
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