Sanjay Sarma is the Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, a unit reporting to the president that includes the Office of Digital Learning, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative, the Center for Advanced Virtuality, and the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab. He is also the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
From 2010 through 2012, Sarma was Director of the MIT alliance with Singapore University of Technology and Design, which developed and implemented a forward-looking engineering and design curriculum. Leveraging innovation and ideas, Sarma went on to co-chair MIT’s Taskforce on the Future of Education, and subsequently was charged with implementing the recommendations around digital learning.
Since 2012, Sarma has served as MIT’s Director of Digital Learning, Dean for Digital Learning and now Vice President for Open Learning. In these roles, he has led the creation of the MicroMasters® program credential, developed the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative, founded the Jameel World Education Lab, and created a group that seeks to transform teaching and learning throughout the world, through research, curriculum development, community building and innovative learning offerings.