Rob Nyland, Ph.D. is a Learning Architect and Assistant Professor at the Global College of Professional Military Education (PME) at Air University. Air University provides various levels of professional military education to members of the United States Air Force and its sister services. Although Dr. Nyland has only been a civilian in the United States Air Force since 2021, his previous experience working in higher education provides him with a broad perspective on the differences between government and traditional instructional design and technology roles. He has presented at various education conferences and published articles about learning analytics, online learning, and Open Educational Resources in such publications as The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL), and TechTrends.