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Roy Pea serves as CILT Director, PI, and point of contact for NSF. He is also co-directing the theme team on Community Tools. Since 1981, Dr. Pea’s work has combined the cognitive science of learning with the use of advanced technologies to create effective environments for learning science, programming, and multimedia computing. Dr. Pea is co-principal investigator of the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project, which is designing, implementing, and studying uses of high-speed telecommunication networks and scientific visualization tools for fostering collaborative learning and teaching in distributed science learning communities (http://www.covis.nwu.edu), now under study in over 55 schools in 11 states. In 1991, he founded Northwestern’s interdisciplinary learning sciences doctoral program, which synthesizes training in computer science, cognitive psychology, and cognition and instruction. Dr. Pea was Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, and John Evans Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences.