Geopositioning in the Active-Learning Classroom: Automating a Technique to Improve Teacher Orchestration and Student Engagement

Post-doctorate, Biophysics, Research Centre on Ageing, Sherbrooke, QC

Ph.D., Physics, Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Physics, Ottawa, ON

Certificate in Computer Science (Prize for Excellence), Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC

M.Eng, Electrical Engineering
McGill University
Montreal, QC

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Implementation of evidence-based instruction (design-based implementation research); design and development of “active learning” spaces (active learning classrooms); Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) models; learning communities (communities of practice); design of human and technology-supported learning environments (e.g., computer supported collaborative learning; CSCL); instructional design for productive student engagement; socio-cultural considerations influencing learning (e.g., development of agency, identity); complex system thinking; STEM education and conceptual change.

EDUCATION

• Post Doctorate, Learning Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
• Ph.D., Educational Technology, Concordia University, Montreal QC

Ph.D. (In progress), Didactique, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC

M.Sc, Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, ON

M.SW, Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

• PhD Simon Fraser University
• BSc McGill University

Post Doctorate, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Camebridge, MA

Ph.D., Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC

M.Sc., Physics, UQAM, Montreal, QC