Robert G.

Bodily
bodilyrobert@gmail.com

Education
Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT
Ph.D. Instructional Psychology and Technology (IPT), Expected April 2018
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
B.S., Neuroscience, April 2014

Fellowships/Grants
BYU Graduate Research Fellowship ($15,000)
September 2016
Data Mining Fellowship from the Digital Learning and Social Media Research Group ($1,500)
June 2016
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
April 2016
BYU Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($400)
November 2015
BYU IPT Travel Grant ($1500)
October 2015/16
BYU Library Student Research Grant ($1,500)
October 2015
BYU Graduate Research Fellowship ($15,000)
September 2015
Open Educational Resources Fellowship from the Open Education Group ($5,000)
September 2015
Major writing contributor to a BYU Mentored Environment Grant ($25,000)
August 2014

Awards
3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Peoples Choice Award at Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT)

November 2015
3MT Runner-Up Award at AECT
November 2015
NSF funded AECT Early Career Symposium Participant ($1000 for conference costs)
October 2015
Mentored Undergraduate Research Award ($3000)
January 2014

Graduate Scholarships
IPT Department Scholarship (1 year full tuition)
August 2016
IPT Department Scholarship (1 year full tuition)
August 2015
Fritz B. Burns Graduate Scholarship (1 year full tuition)
August 2014

Related Experience
Data Scientist
Lumen Learning, LLC, January 2016 Present
Conduct a confirmatory factor analysis on assessment items to see how well they load
onto outcomes. Conduct an analytics and design project on the continuous improvement
of OER using learning analytics. Conduct data preprocessing and statistical analysis on
personalized learning system data.
Graduate Researcher
Working with Dr. Charles Graham, April 2014 Present
Develop expertise with Canvas (Learning Management System); collect data using the
Canvas API and manipulate it with Python. Develop real-time learning analytics
dashboards and test their effectiveness using randomized control trials, focus groups, and
evaluation surveys.
Working with Dr. Ross Larsen, April 2014 Present
Simulate categorical and continuous correlated variables using innovative brute force
approach. Conduct mean weighted propensity score analysis allowing betas in logistic
regression to vary or averaging betas across all group comparisons. Use BYU
supercomputer to conduct simulation studies.
Quantitative Research Intern
Knod Global Learning, August 2014 April 2015

Conduct basic survey data analysis; analyze log data to find patterns in student activity
using linear regression
Undergraduate Researcher
Blended Learning Research Lab, January 2014 April 2014
Develop python programming skills; become proficient in the areas of blended learning
and student engagement; assist other graduate students on presentations and projects

Publications
Howland, S., Martin, T., Bodily, R., Faulconer, C., & West, R. (2016).
Educational technology research journals: International journal of
computer-supported collaborative learning, 2006 2014. Educational
Technology, 55(6).
Porter, W. W., Graham, C. R., Bodily, R., & Sandberg, D. S. (2016). A
qualitative analysis of institutional drivers and barriers to blended
learning adoption in higher education. The Internet and Higher
Education, 28, 17-27.
Henrie, C. R., Bodily, R., Manwaring, K. C., & Graham, C. R. (2015). Exploring
intensive longitudinal measures of student engagement in blended
learning. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed
Learning, 16(3).

Publications Under Review

Henrie, C.R., Bodily, R., Larsen, R., & Graham, C. R. (2016 in review). Exploring the potential
of LMS log data as a proxy measure of student engagement. Computers & Education.
Belikov, O., & Bodily, R. (2016 in review). Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A
qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions. Open Praxis.
Bodily, R., Nyland, R., & Wiley, D. (2016 in review). The RISE Framework: Using learning
analytics for the continuous improvement of open educational resources. Journal of
Computing in Higher Education.
Davies, R.S., Nyland, R., Bodily, R., Chapman, J., Jones, B., & Young, J. (2016 in review). What
do instructional designers need to know about learning analytics? Tech Trends.
Bodily, R., Graham, C., & Bush, M. (2016 in review). Online learner
engagement: Opportunities and challenges with using data analytics.
Educational Technology.
West, R., Thomas, R., Bodily, R., Wright, C., & Borup, J. (2016 in review).
Evolution of a field: Emerging trends in leading departments of

instructional design and technology. Educational Technology, Research,

and Development.

Conference Presentations
Bodily, R., Nyland, R., & Wiley, D. (2016, November). The RISE Framework:
Continuously improving OER using learning analytics. 13th Annual Open Education
Conference, Richmond, VA.
Bodily, R., Kerr, T., Mackley, B., & Graham, C. R. (2016, October). Designing,
developing, and evaluating a real-time student dashboard. Association
for Educational Communications and Technology, Las Vegas, NV.
Bodily, R., Kerr, T., Mackley, B., & Graham, C. R. (2016, October). Examining
the effect of a real-time student dashboard on student behavior and
student achievement. Association for Educational Communications and
Technology, Las Vegas, NV.
Davies, R.S., Nyland, R., Bodily, R., Chapman, J., Jones, B., & Young, J (2016, October). What
should instructional designers know about learning analytics?
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Las
Vegas, NV.
Bodily, R. & Wood, S. G. (August 2016). Tracking student use of web-based
resources for chemical education. Biennial Conference on Chemical
Education, Greeley, CO.
Bodily, R. & Wood, S. G. (August 2016). Using instructional videos, online
quizzes, and real-time dashboards to improve student learning in
online environments. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education,
Greeley, CO.
Wood, S. G. & Bodily, R. (August 2016). Examining the flipped classroom
design: Are students even watching the pre-lecture videos? Biennial
Conference on Chemical Education, Greeley, CO.
Bodily, R. & Henrie, C. (2015, November). Examining the effect of real-time
feedback on student behavior and student achievement. ICEM
Graduate Panel at Association for Educational Communications and
Technology, Indianapolis, IN.
Bodily, R., Howland, S., Martin, T., Faulconer, C., & West, R. (2015,
November). Educational technology research journals: International
journal of computer-supported collaborative learning, 2006 2014.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology,
Indianapolis, IN.
Jenkins, J. L., Sandberg, D., Williams, P., Stokes, S., Larsen, R., Bodily R.,
Harris, S., & Valacich, J. S. (2015, August). A multi-experimental

examination of analyzing mouse cursor trajectories to gauge subject

uncertainty. Americas Conference on Information Systems. Puerto Rico.
Henrie, C. R., Halverson, L. R., Bodily, R., Sandberg, D., & Graham, C. R.
(2014, July). Measuring engagement in blended and online learning.
11th Annual Online Learning Consortium Blended Learning Conference
and Workshop. Denver, CO.
Manwaring, K., Halverson, L. R., Henrie, C. R., Bodily, R., & Graham, C. R.
(2014, July). Course design from the learners point of view through the
use of intensive longitudinal methods. 11th Annual Online Learning
Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop. Denver, CO.

Poster Presentations
Bodily, R., Kerr, T., Mackley, B., & Graham, C.R. (2016). Designing and
evaluating a student dashboard. McKay School Mentored Research
Conference Brigham Young University.
Henrie, C., Bodily, R., Graham, C. R., & Larsen, R. (2015) Using log data as a
proxy for student engagement survey scores. McKay School Mentored
Research Conference Brigham Young University.
Sandberg, D., Bodily, R., Harris, S., Larsen, R., & Jenkins, J. (2015). You can
see it in their hands: Exploring correlates between users uncertainty
and mouse cursor movements. McKay School Mentored Research
Conference Brigham Young University.
Henrie, C.R., Bodily, R., & Graham, C.R. (2014). Measuring online and
blended learner engagement. McKay School Mentored Research
Conference Brigham Young University.

Book Chapters
Barrus, A., Chapman, J., Bodily, R., & Rich, P. (2016 under review). Using
educational technologies to scaffold high school and college students
skill and will to learn to learn better.

Service & Leadership Experiences

President of BYU IPT Graduate Student Organization
April 2016 Present

Lead the selection process for student organization officers for the
upcoming year, plan service, leadership, and professional development
activities for the following year
Vice President of BYU IPT Graduate Student Organization
August 2015 April 2016
Plan professional development activities, organize and promote social
events, increase networking within the department and with other
professionals in the instructional technology field
Data Scientist Volunteer
April 2015 Present
Conduct data extraction, preprocessing, summarization, and statistical
analysis for various projects at my university. These projects include: a data
project with the physics department understanding student click-level data, a
preprocessing project with a fellow graduate student preprocessing data, and
extracting click-level data from the learning management system Canvas.
Project Manager
April 2015 - Present
Quiz App (Open Assessments)
Implemented Open Assessments on Amazon Web Services,
implemented additional question types (short answer and essay),
implemented xAPI to track student activity
Video App (Ayamel)
Implemented xAPI to track student activity
Dashboards
Implemented LTI as a tool consumer and tool provider, implemented
xAPI to track student activity, real-time visualizations of student
activity
Learning Record Store
Implemented Learning Locker (an open source LRS) to store student
activity data from multiple sources
Chemistry Teaching Assistant & Chemistry Tutor
August 2012 January 2014
Plan lessons for and teach two 30-student classes twice per week at BYU. Over 200 hours
tutoring students in general level chemistry courses.

Other Experience
Development Projects
Ebscohost Web Scraper

Article metadata web scraper (python) to obtain authors, abstracts,

titles, keywords, and author keywords for more than 50,000 articles
using Beautiful Soup, Mechanize, and Requests libraries in python
BrainHoney Analytics
Python script to extract online student interaction data from the
BrainHoney DLAP API and conduct data preprocessing for analysis
Canvas Analytics
Python script to extract online student interaction data from the
Canvas API and conduct data preprocessing for analysis
SPSS & MPlus automated analysis
Python scripts to run a regression, check collinearity diagnostics,
output model statistics, graph a histogram of the residuals, graph a
residual plot, and conduct analysis in MPlus for FIML and clustering
using the following python libraries: pandas, spss, spssaux, matplotlib,
numpy, and subprocess
Amazon Mechanical Turk/Qualtrics Integration
Python scripts to create qualification tests in MTurk, automatically pull
results from qualtrics and MTurk, and automatically approve HITs based
on survey codes.
Family History Opportunity Finder
Python script to pull family history information using the family search
API to identify promising family research opportunities.
Professional Memberships
Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Member
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Member
MOOC Certificates
Statistical Learning
Certificate of accomplishment
Offered by Hastie and Tibshirani on https://lagunita.stanford.edu/
(March 2016)
Big Data in Education
Certificate with distinction
Offered by Dr. Ryan Baker on EdX.org (August 2015)
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Certificate with distinction
Offered by Rice University on Coursera.org (June 2014)