Sloan ALN Summer Workshops: Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction

James Levin
Professor, Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
email: j-levin@uiuc.edu
URL: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/people/jim-levin/

Jim Levin is a Professor of Educational Psychology, and a Faculty Affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on finding ways to improve problem solving through collaborative interaction through networks and to help people learn to be better problem solvers by providing powerful distributed learning environments. He has developed several innovative models of learning, including the concept of teleapprenticeships. He has recently been studying "teaching teleapprenticeships", instructional frameworks that allow education students to learn within the context of remote K-12 classrooms. He has been exploring ways to use advanced technologies to improve education, locally, nationally, and internationally.