Profiles in "Learning Sciences" Expertise Area

  • Risk consultant, storyteller, editor, trainer, learning guru, professor, and safety director. PhD candidate in human + social dimensions of science + technology at ASU where he studies how stories affect risk perceptions.
  • Dr. Danielle McNamara is Regents Professor of Psychology and the Executive Director of the Learning Engineering Institute at ASU.
  • Ying-Chih Chen's research agenda focuses on how teachers use student scientific uncertainty as a pedagogical resource to facilitate students' practices of argumentation, Sensemakign, and modeling.
  • Dr. J. Bryan Henderson is an Associate Professor interested is in the utilization of educational technology to facilitate critical, peer-to-peer science learning. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
  • Olsen teaches Technical Editing (431/531) at ASU. She has educational background in technical communication, composition and rhetoric, culinary arts, information science, and instructional technology.
  • Amy Bartlett teaches science methods and mentors future educators at ASU. She’s passionate about inquiry-based learning and designs PD to support innovative, inclusive, and student-centered science teaching.
  • Dr. Mei Mei is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring how AIED systems empower human agency. She designs concepts, methods, and frameworks to ensure these systems are meaningful, equitable, and grounded in real-world use.
  • The focus of Carla Firetto's research examines individual difference and mechanisms of learning to facilitate students’ high-level comprehension of complex texts and content.
  • Phil is an advisor to the Orchard Project at EdPlus, a Senior Scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, & the Facilitator for the USCCFdn’s T3 LER Network, etc.