Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh is the assistant dean for Teaching and Learning at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His experience is in academic innovation, expanding access to high-quality educational opportunities, and developing engaging credit and non-credit online courses and programs.

Before coming to Carey Business School, Walsh served as the director of the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, where he focused on leveraging instructional design, educational technology, data, and multimedia. His team supported high-quality online instruction and created learning opportunities that challenged students to assess complex business problems and deliver innovative solutions. Walsh has extensive experience in policy development and strategic planning for online enrollment growth and improving course quality.

While with the University of Maryland System, he oversaw the development, implementation, and administration of micro-credential programs across Maryland’s public institutions utilizing edX and Coursera. Participating institutions secured over $6 million in revenue in the first five years and reached 1.4 million new learners worldwide.

Before joining UMS, Walsh was assistant vice president for academic innovation and instructional support at the University of Baltimore. In this role, he oversaw the Office of Academic Innovation, which included UB's honors program, experiential learning, instructional technologies, and the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology. His work focused on supporting faculty innovation in teaching, managing the selection and transition to new teaching and learning platforms, and developing faculty fellows, communities of practice, and connections between IT and academia.