{"id":170,"date":"2011-06-07T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:01:09","slug":"whos-tryggvi-thayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/whos-tryggvi-thayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Tryggvi Thayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tryggvi_thayer.png?resize=177%2C203\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"203\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Development Education from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">University of Minnesota &#8211; Dept. of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development.<\/span>\u00a0My dissertation was on educational policy and decision makers&#8217; use of foresight programs to support future-oriented long-term policy making.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I do:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">University Of Iceland &#8211; School of Education<\/span>: Adjunct lecturer in educational technology, innovation and media. Teach courses on educational technology, AI literacy and AI in education, educational change, online\/distance education, education futures. Research interests: Education futures, educational technology, AI in learning environments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Consulting<\/span>:\u00a0I do consulting work for educational institutions and organizations on matters relating to educational development, information technology in education and international education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What motivates me?<\/strong><br \/>\nI see myself as an optimistic education &#8220;futurizer&#8221;. My primary interest is in education futures and how they can be used to inform policy and decision making processes. Thus my approach to education futures is a very practical one. My main concern is identifying means to effectively facilitate the transfer of knowledge generated by education futurists to educational policy making processes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\">Education4site.org web site<\/a> contains a range of my thoughts and ideas on matters relating to education, technology, globalization, and more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"mailto:tryggvithayer@gmail.com\">Email me at tryggvithayer@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For a more detailed education and work history, along with other things I&#8217;ve done, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?page_id=156\">see my CV here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota &#8211; Dept. of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development.\u00a0My dissertation was on educational policy and decision makers&#8217; use of foresight programs to support future-oriented long-term policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/whos-tryggvi-thayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P22Btc-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}