Rate My Professor Chris Hoadley

Christopher Hoadley is a Professor of Learning Sciences in the Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Director of the UB Institute for Learning Sciences. He earned an S.B. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from UC Berkeley in 1999. Hoadley's career spans research and academic positions at SRI International from 1998 to 2002, Pennsylvania State University from 2002 to 2008, New York University from 2008 to 2022—where he was program director of Educational Technology programs from 2011 to 2013 and founding program director of the Games for Learning program—and the National Science Foundation from 2013 to 2016 as program director for the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program. He has held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Mills College, Penn State University, and New York University in fields including education, computer science, and information sciences. Hoadley founded the dolcelab, the Laboratory for Design of Learning, Collaboration & Experience, and previously chaired the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Education in Science and Technology (now SIG: Learning Sciences).

Hoadley's research specializations include collaborative technologies, computer-supported cooperative learning, design-based research methods—a term he coined in the late 1990s—educational technology, computer science education, human-computer interaction, learning sciences, AI in education, information science, and equity in computing access. He is a Fellow of the International Society for the Learning Sciences, an affiliate scholar of the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education, and recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2008-2009 for studying educational technologies for sustainability in rural Himalayan villages. He co-founded and served as the first president of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. Key publications include "Design-based research: What it is and why it matters to studying online learning" (Educational Psychologist, 2022), "A Short History of the Learning Sciences" (International Handbook of the Learning Sciences, 2018), "Autocorrect Is Not: People Are Multilingual and Computer Science Should Be Too" (Communications of the ACM, 2024), "Collaborative technology practices in social science early career scholarly research workflows" (Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2024), and contributions to over 100 peer-reviewed publications and presentations. Hoadley has led NSF-funded projects on computational literacies, translanguaging pedagogies, and equitable computer science education.