I’m involved in a variety of consulting, partnership, and advisory activities. Some examples are noted below. I am always interested in developing new partnerships, so please feel free to contact me and connect.
Board Service
2015-Present: I serve on the Board of Directors for the Peer 2 Peer University, which is an open education organization that has been a long-time collaborator in my research.
2016-2017: I served on the National Advisory Board for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. I helped the Cooney Center develop new initiatives and strategic directions for research and development.
2015-2016: I served on the Steering Committee of the CS Matters in Maryland initiative. We are working with the state, the university system, and K-12 districts to train and certify teachers in computer science and expand CS Education to the K-12 school system.
Consulting
(2014-2018) I served as a consultant and evaluator on a $13.8 million grant from the Ohio Straight A Fund. In this project, I helped the Mentor and Kirtland School districts evaluate their online and blended learning initiatives.
Scholarly Service
2020-2021: I served as a Program Chair for the 1st Annual Meeting for the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), which combined two previous conference communities I am a part of (ICLS and CSCL).
2019-present: I currently serve as a Co-Editor of the journal Educational Researcher, the official journal of the American Educational Research Association.
2018-present: I serve as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Information and Learning Sciences.
2018-2019: I served on the National Visioning Panel for the development of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) Math assessment.
2017: I was asked to serve as a faculty member for the Learn Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) workshop that is run annually at the University of Colorado, Boulder (by Dr. William Penuel).
2016-2017: I was a faculty member for a series of workshops to teach research and practitioner teams about developing research-practice partnerships for the NSF CS for All RPP program.
2017, 2018: I was chosen to serve as Section Chair for the CHI 2017 and CHI 2018 conferences. CHI is the premier conference and publication in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.
2015, 2016: I served as an Associate Chair for the CHI 2016 and CHI 2017 conferences. CHI is the premier conference and publication in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.
2016-2017: I helped to draft an NSF Report on Cyberlearning with an esteemed team of scholars in the learning sciences and technology. [download the report]
2015-2016: I served on the Program Committee for the NSF Cyberlearning Summit. This annual conference brings together top researchers in the learning sciences and educational technology to envision the next evolution in cyberlearning research.