Roy Pea

Roy Pea

Roy Pea is David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University, Director of Stanford’s H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research), and founder and Director of Stanford’s PhD program in Learning Sciences and Technology Design. Roy 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 (Stanford). He co-directs the NSF-funded LIFE Center, examining how informal and formal learning can be better understood and connected (http://life-slc.org). He is co-author of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan for the US Department of Education, co-editor of Video Research in the Learning Sciences (2007), and co-author of the National Academy of Sciences book: How People Learn (2000). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education, Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association, and was an IBM Faculty Fellow (2006). In 2004-2005, Roy was President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. Roy also served from 1999-2009 as a Director for Teachscape, a teacher professional development services company he co-founded with CEO Mark Atkinson. Roy holds three patents in innovations in interactive video, with several other patents pending. He is a Director of Kogeto.com and serves as an advisor to several other companies.