Braeden Jones comes to Instructional Technology from a background in Spanish language teaching. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa with a dissertation entitled "Re-Imagining the Conquest in Comics: Adoption of Colonial Spanish American Narrative and Image in Contemporary Comic Books".

Braeden is especially interested in the gamification of language learning and the ways we can encourage our students to re-engage with material multiple times and through multiple modalities by the use of tech that will appeal to modern sensibilities.