Tobias focuses on innovation and transformation in music education and how music learning and teaching might make a positive impact on people's lives and society.

Barab has a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Teachers College. He researches, design and publishes extensively on the challenges and opportunities of using games for impact.

Halavais helps people to discover ways in which social media change the nature of scholarship and learning, and allow for new forms of collaboration and self-government. He directs the master's program in social technologies.