# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-oakley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:14.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-oakley"
name: "Barbara Oakley"
slug: "barbara-oakley"
description: "Barbara Ann Oakley is an American professor of engineering at Oakland University and McMaster University whose online courses on learning are some of the most popular massive open online course (MOOC) classes in the world. She is involved in multiple areas of research, ranging from STEM education, to learning practices."
tagline: "Translator, writer, engineer and teacher."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barb_Oakley_jpg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.09
  momentum:             0.2619589977220957
  historical:           10.59820533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/barb_oakley/"
    handle:    "barb_oakley"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraoakley/"
    handle:    "barbaraoakley"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://barbaraoakley.com/"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "باربرا أوكلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربارا اواكلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Oakley"
    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Oakley"
    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربارا اوکلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Oakley"
    title: "Barbara Oakley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Оакли, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Барбара Оклі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%92"
    title: "باربرا اوکلے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump