11 Facts About Roy Pea

Roy D Pea is David Jacks Professor of Learning Sciences and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Roy Pea has extensively published works in the field of the Learning Sciences and on learning technology design and made significant contributions since 1981 to the understanding of how people learn with technology.

Roy Pea received a dual major Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and psychology from Michigan State University with an independently declared major in Cognition working with his mentor and friend Stephen Toulmin, and later, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in developmental psychology from the University of Oxford, while studying as a Rhodes Scholar, working with his advisor Jerome Bruner.

Roy Pea is a key figure in the development of the learning sciences as a recognized field of research and graduate study.

Roy Pea founded and served as the first director of the first learning sciences doctoral program, at Northwestern University, directing the NSF-funded field-building Center for Innovative Learning Technologies, and launching in 2002 the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at Stanford University.

Roy Pea was one of the first research scientists to build the Bank Street College Center for Children in Technology, the first social sciences center devoted to studying children's learning with technology.

In 1996, after a year at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Roy Pea was recruited to SRI International, where he worked with colleagues to build a major national Center for Technology in Learning, until recruited to Stanford University in 2001.

At Stanford, Roy Pea co-founded Stanford's H-STAR Institute with Byron Reeves and is H-STAR Institute Director.

Roy Pea was co-director of the National Science Foundation-funded LIFE Center, one of six national Science of Learning Centers, whose studies seek to inform better bridging of the sciences of informal and formal learning from 2004 to 2017.

Roy Pea served from 1999 to 2009 as a founding director for Teachscape, a company he co-founded with Mark Atkinson in 1999 that provides comprehensive K-12 teacher professional development services incorporating web-based video case studies of standards-based teaching and communities of learners.

Roy Pea is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Education [1], Association for Psychological Science, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the American Educational Research Association, and the International Society for the Learning Sciences.