Introduction

As a doctoral student in the program of Curriculum and Pedagogy at OISE, University of Toronto, I have research interests in the areas of learning community pedagogy, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) roles, scripting and orchestration, and the design of educational research environments. My dissertation research focuses on the design of activities, technology scaffolds, and CSCL roles to support co-regulation and adaptation in learning community curricula. This work has relied heavily on teacher-researcher co-design for the design, development, and integration of activity patterns accompanied by a suite of technology tools for scaffolding, scripting, and orchestrating these classroom activities. 

I am also greatly interested in both social and cognitive theories of learning (i.e., multimedia learning theory, cognitive load theory, and engagement--i.e, ICAP, as well as social-constructivist approaches to learning such as Knowledge Integration and collective, inquiry-based learning to immerse students in meaningful work with curriculum concepts and one another's ideas). I have played key roles as both product and project manager for the CK Board collaborative learning environment and guided feature development for SCORE (SCripting and ORchestration Environment). As a graduate researcher, I have contributed to a variety of teacher-driven action research studies and teacher-researcher co-design of design-based research studies.