Janet Kolodner | |
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Born | Janet Lynne Kolodner |
Alma mater | Brandeis University (BS) Yale University (MS, PhD) |
Awards | AAAI Fellow (1992) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Case-based reasoning[1] |
Institutions | Boston College Georgia Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Retrieval and organizational strategies in conceptual memory : a computer model (1980) |
Doctoral students | Katia Sycara[2] |
Website | www |
Janet Lynne Kolodner is an American cognitive scientist and learning scientist. She is a Professor of the Practice at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and co-lead of the MA Program in Learning Engineering.[3][4][5][6][7] She is also Regents' Professor Emerita in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1] She was Founding Editor in Chief of The Journal of the Learning Sciences[8] and served in that role for 19 years. She was Founding Executive Officer of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).[9] From August, 2010 through July, 2014, she was a program officer at the National Science Foundation and headed up the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies[10] program (originally called Cyberlearning: Transforming Education[11]). Since finishing at NSF, she is working toward a set of projects that will integrate learning technologies coherently to support disciplinary and everyday learning, support project-based pedagogy that works, and connect to the best in curriculum for active learning.[12] As of July, 2020, she