Annie Rota is Director of Academic Technology for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She joined the group in 2005. Prior to Harvard, Annie worked in higher education publishing, and served as technical lead for Pearson Education's CourseCompass (at the time, the world's largest Blackboard system). She earned her undergraduate degree at Yale University, her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has taught at Boston University's College of Communications.