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Valerie Landau is an inventor and learning specialist.
She began her career as Regional Director of the Literacy Campaign in Nicaragua where she worked with Brazilian educator Paulo Friere and then worked in public television on award-winning documentary programs including the Silicon Valley TV series which received numerous awards and is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. She also worked for CBS 60 Minutes with investigative reporters Lowell Bergman and Harry Reasoner and for legendary singer Paul McCartney.
As an educational game designer she she worked on several games including Math Heads, winner of the SPA Codie Award Nomination for Best Consumer Creativity Software and the Platinum Award in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio in 1996 and Word Heads, Parents Choice Gold Medal Award-winner.
She is author of "Developing an Effective Online Course" published by McGraw Hill Primus. She also co-authored "The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart".
Ms. Landau has co-autored two patent applications (pending) with Douglas Engelbart (inventor of the mouse). She earned an MA and a post-graduate Certificate of Advanced Study from the Department of Technology and Innovation from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She was Assistant Professor of Multimedia Design at California State University, Monterey Bay.
