Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

William R. Penuel is a professor of learning sciences and human development in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His current research examines conditions needed to ...

Dr. Schmid is an educational psychologist who conducts research in the following areas: Applications of technologies to improve pedagogy and training in the workplace and schools, especially as ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

Sirong Lin, Ph.D. received her Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Her doctoral research examined the pedagogy of parallel thinking by teaching Computer Science students to ...

When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...