Visualization and Modeling, Co-director

Dr. Marcia C. Linn
Professor of Education, UC Berkeley

Marcia Linn is Professor of Education at UC Berkeley, Director of the campus-wide Instructional Technology Program, and a member of the AAAS Board. She co-directs the Visualization and Modeling theme team, leads the CILT postdoctoral program, and coordinates the involvement of Berkeley's Program in Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology in the R&D and research training components of CILT. Her research interests include gender and science, the development of scientific understanding through a "scaffolded knowledge integration" framework for instruction and assessment, and innovative applications of Internet resources to improve science learning (KIE and WISE ).