Community Tools, Co-director

Dr. Roy Pea
Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences, Stanford University
Chief Scientist, SRI International
Current Seed Grant: The Digital Video Inquiry Collaboratory

Roy Pea is CILT Director Emeritus. He is also co-directing the theme team on Community Tools. He is Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, and Director of a new Ph.D. Program in Learning Sciences and Technology Design (http://www.stanford.edu/~roypea). Since 1981, Dr. Pea has been active in exploring, defining, and researching new issues in how information technologies can fundamentally support and advance learning and teaching, with particular focus on topics in science, mathematics, and technology education. Particular areas of interest are computer-supported collaborative and online community learning, uses of digital video for learning research and teacher education, scientific visualization, and pervasive learning with wireless handheld computers. He has published over 100 chapters and articles on cognition, education, and learning technologies, and was co-author of the 1999 National Academy Press volume, How People Learn. With NAE President Bill Wulf, he is currently chairing a joint National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology.

Roy also serves as a Director for Teachscape, a company he co-founded that provides comprehensive K-12 teacher professional development services incorporating web-based video case studies of standards-based teaching and communities of learners. Pea is also a Director of VIP Tone, a portal-based computing company providing e-integration services for reducing the complexity of integrating, delivering, and managing the applications, curriculum and assessment, communications tools, networks and professional development for the education market. From 1996-2001, Dr. Pea was Director of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and continues to consult for SRI as CTL's Chief Scientist. He was John Evans Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University (1991-1996), where he founded and chaired the Learning Sciences Ph.D. Program, and served as Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy. During 1995-96, he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Pea is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Education, the American Psychological Society, and the World Technology Network. His consulting has included education program advisement for Ameritech, Apple Computer, Atlantic Philanthropies, ETS, George Lucas Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Markle Foundation, Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the states of Illinois and California, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 1978, he received his doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Oxford, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.