Designing Inquiry-Based Labs for Physics and Biology: Lessons Learned From Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships

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

• PhD Simon Fraser University
• BSc McGill University