KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute

Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society




FACULTY

Jim Slotta (Ph.D., Pittsburgh)
Director, Collaborative Program in Knowledge Media Design
Associate Professor
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Department, OISE/UT
Canada Research Chair, Education and Technology
Email: jslotta@oise.utoronto.ca

Biography

Jim Slotta is an associate level professor of education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at The University of Toronto.  He holds the Canada Research Chair in education and technology and co-directs the NSF-funded center called “Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS).  His research employs technology-enhanced learning environments to investigate cognitive models of learning and instruction.  He also promotes the development of open source materials for the learning sciences, and has recently designed the Educational Network and Community for Open Resource Exchange (ENCORE - see http://encorewiki.org)

Keywords
Cognition, instruction, technology

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