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Roy Pea

Senior Research Fellow
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Roy Pea is the David Jacks Professor of Learning Sciences and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Learning Sciences and Technology Design, and Co-founder and Director of H-STAR (Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute), a Stanford interdisciplinary research center focusing on people and technology. He has extensively published works in the learning sciences and on learning technology design, and he has made significant contributions since 1981 to the understanding of how people learn with technology. Pea is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education, the Association for Psychological Science, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the American Educational Research Association. He is past President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. Pea is co-editor with Na'ilah Nasir, Carol Lee and Maxine McKinney De Royston of the Routledge Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning. He is the recipient of the 2022 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Learning Science Research.