Roy Pea
Roy Pea is a professor of learning sciences in the School of Education at
Stanford University. He has extensively published works in the learning sciences
and on learning technology design, and made significant contributions since
1981 to the understanding of how people learn with technology.
He has published
widely on K-12 learning and education, especially in science, math and technology,
fostered by advanced technologies including scientific visualization, on-line
communities, digital video collaboratories and mobile computers. His current
work is examining how informal and formal learning can be better understood
and connected, and developing the DIVER paradigm for everyday networked video
interactions for learning and communications.
Other current research includes
the influence of point of view on video-supported learning and collaboration;
precollege mobile science inquiry and learning with sensors;and informal
math learning in families. He is co-author of the 2010 National Education
Technology Plan for the US Department of Education, was co-editor of the
2007 volume Video Research in the Learning Sciences, and co-author of the 2000 National Academy volume How People Learn. He is the Co-Founder and Director for Teachscape, a company providing comprehensive K-12 teacher professional development services incorporating web-based video case studies of standards-based teaching and communities of learners.