Janet L. Kolodner

at GATech, computing - founder of Journal of the Learning Sciences

Development of identity as a scientific reasoner, technological means of promoting and mediating learning, implications and applications of cognition to education and educational technology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, case-based reasoning, novice-expert evolution, the role of experience in expert and common-sense reasoning, design cognition, creativity, design of decision-aiding tools and interactive learning environments.

Peter Reimann summarized her career as spanning three stages:

• work in the lab, pioneered case-based reasoning (1993)
• into schools and science education
  • learning by design, 3 year middle-school curriculum on Project-Based Inquiry Science
• policy level, Cyberlearning: Transforming Education at NSF

• Learning by design
• Project-based inquiry science

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