Educational Technology

Justin Olmanson focuses on how artificial intelligence can be used to engage each human’s full communicative and sense-making repertoires within the learning process. Through multi-agent systems he aims to ensure that AI can harness human diversity, enable transformative learning, is applied across multiple scales and is strategically employed across the taxonomy of scaffolding for learning. He is a member of the UNL Faculty Senate and its Information Technology subcommittee, an advisory board member for UNL’s Center for Transformative Teaching, a member of the Center for Intelligent Health Care at UNMC, and also faculty in cardiology at UNMC. Olmanson has also founded his own educational software and consulting company, B Street Systems, and co-founded the nano-bioscience company, B Street Biological Systems. (Updated July 2025)