Christopher Hoadley

Basics

Dr. Christopher Hoadley
Associate Professor

New York University

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

East Building, Ste 300, 239 Greene St.
New York , NY , 10003-6674 USA

+1 212 998 5520

http://www.tophe.net/

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Curriculum Vitae [pdf format, updated 12 July 2008]

I work in a field called the learning sciences (I previously served as president of the International Society for the Learning Sciences). I am serving as a Fulbright Scholar in India and Nepal for the 2008-2009 school year, and when I return begin a post as an associate professor of Educational Communications and Technology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. I recently left Penn State University where I held a joint appointment between two programs:

the Instructional Systems Program of the Learning and Performance Systems Department of the College of Education, and
The College of Information Sciences and Technology.

You can view my old homepage, or the "official" university homepage for me. Note that the Curriculum Vitae and the Publications Page in my old site are slightly more up to date than the rest. My up-to-date CV and pubs are available above in PDF form only.

IMPORTANT: To locate me in emergency, contact the dolcelab assistant at helpme @ dolcelab.org. I will be basically unavailable during the 2008-2009 school year in order to complete my Fulbright obligations.

My Research

I direct the dolcelab (Design of Learning, Collaboration, & Experience). The dolcelab studies the interconnections between design, learning, technology, and collaboration. Foci include empirical studies of design, design as a research method (design-based research, a term I coined in the mid 1990s), designing with and for collaboration, and technology-mediated learning in socio-technical systems (CSCL).

Active projects

The mountain project: Connecting kids and adults in rural Himalayan villages for environmental education and sustainable living

Technology for identity and learning: studies of identity online in social networking tools such as Facebook, online multiplayer environments such as Second Life and There

Designers doing and learning: A comparative study of design and design pedagogy across domains such as engineering, architecture, instructional design, and interface design.

Anticipatory learning with regard to climate change in rural African communities

Prior projects

On Design-Based Research Methods (DBRM)

The contingency of artificial phenomena has always created doubts as to whether they fall properly within the compass of science. Sometimes these doubts are directed at the... difficulty of disentangling prescription from description. This seems to me not to be the real difficulty. The genuine problem is to show how empirical propositions can be made at all about systems that, given different circumstances, might be quite other than they are.

— Herb Simon

The conjunction of problematic and determinate characters in nature renders every existence, as well as every idea and human act, an experiment in fact, even though not in design. To be intelligently experimental is but to be conscious of this intersection of natural conditions so as to profit by it instead of being at its mercy.

— John Dewey

...the intervention is the outcome (or at least an outcome) in an important sense.

— Design-Based Research Collective (DBRC)