University of Maryland, College Park

Department Member, College of Education & College of Information Studies (iSchool)

Learning Sciences

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Dr. Christine Greenhow (http://www.cgreenhow.org/) is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education and the iSchool (joint position) at the University of Maryland at College Park. She completed postdoctoral work in learning technologies at the University of Minnesota’s College of Education & Human Development and at the Institute for Advanced Studies. She won the University of Minnesota’s 2008-2009 Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award for extraordinary scholarly achievement. From 2009-2010, she was also a visiting fellow in the Information & Society Project at Yale University, which partners with Harvard's Berkman Center and Comparative Media at MIT, and is currently working on a book about education, law, policy and social media. Christine earned her doctorate from Harvard University where she was a Larson Fellow.  Her research focuses on learning in social media contexts such as online social networks, from learning sciences, new literacy studies, and learning technologies perspectives and always with the goal of improving theory, practice and policy. She is the Principal Investigator on the Youth and Social Media research & development project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Founding Chair of the Social Networks Research Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research group funded by the Institute for Advanced Study. Her work has been featured in local, national and international news media (e.g., American Public Media’s Future Tense). She has been active in national educational reform and policy efforts and is the co-founder of an award-winning educational non-profit. For more information please www.cgreenhow.org

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