Yusuke Morita, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Waseda University in Japan. He was also a Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT) and Project Manager of the Waseda DX (Digital Transformation) and MOOC project (WasedaX in edX) at Waseda University from 2015 to 2025.
He studied Science Education at Tokyo Gakugei University, earned a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Education, and then majored in Educational Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After getting a Ph.D. (EduTech) in 1999, he became a research associate of the Research Center for School Education at Naruto University of Education from 1999 to 2001, an assistant professor of the Department of Information Technology and Education at Nagasaki University from 2001 to 2007, and an associate professor at Waseda University from 2007 to 2020.
Yusuke Morita was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin in US) in 2004-2005, visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT in US) in 2014-2015, and is now a visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU in Finland) in 2025-2026. He was also an executive board member of the Japan Society for Educational Technology (JSET) and the Japan Society for Science Education (JSSE).
