Dr. Chris Hoadley is an associate professor of Education and of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. He designs, builds, and studies ways for computers to enhance collaboration and learning. Hoadley has degrees in cognitive science, computer science, and education from MIT and the University of California at Berkeley, and currently his research focuses on collaborative technologies and computer support for cooperative learning (CSCL). Other interests include research on and through design, systems for supporting social capital and distributed intelligence (especially for educational reform), the role of informatics and digital libraries in education, the psychology of computer programming, sustainability education, and science and engineering education. Hoadley is the director of dolcelab, the Laboratory for Design Of Learning, Collaboration & Experience. He is affiliated with the Penn State Center for Human-Computer Interaction, and is an affiliate scholar for the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education (CASEE). Hoadley previously chaired the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Education in Science and Technology (now SIG: Learning Sciences), and served as the first President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences.
Previously, Dr. Hoadley was a research scientist at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and a consulting assistant professor in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at Stanford University. Hoadley was the Director of the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies Knowledge Network for four years. He founded and led the Design-Based Research Collective, funded by the Spencer Foundation, and was affiliated faculty with the American Center for the Study of Distance Education. He was on the editorial board of the Journal of the Learning Sciences, and now serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Science Education and Technology, and the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. With Naomi Miyake, he co-edits the Springer book series on CSCL.
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