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Allan M. Collins
Professor Emeritus, Learning Sciences, Learning Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 309 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-3812 Fax: (847) 491-8999 |
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
Allan Collins is Professor Emeritus of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education , and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as a founding editor of the journal Cognitive Science and as first chair of the Cognitive Science Society. He has studied teaching and learning for over 30 years, and written extensively on related topics. He is best known in psychology for his work on how people answer questions, in artificial intelligence for his work on reasoning and intelligent tutoring systems, and in education for his work on situated learning, inquiry teaching, design research, and cognitive apprenticeship. From 1991 to 1994 he was Co-Director of the US Department of Education’s Center for Technology in Education. His book with Richard Halverson entitled Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and the Schools was published by Teachers College Press in September 2009.
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Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
Research/Scholarship
Education
Selected Publications
Year Degree Institution 1970 PhD, Cognitive Psychology University of Michigan 1961 MA, Communication Sciences University of Michigan
Collins, A., Joseph, D. & Bielaczyc, K. (2004). Design research: Theoretical and methodological issues. Journal of the Learning Sciences: 13 (1), 15–42.Research Interests
Bielaczyc, K. & Collins, A. (1999). Learning communities in classrooms: A reconceptualization of educational practice in Reigeluth, C. M. (Ed), Instructional-design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory : 269-292.
Greeno, J. G., Collins, A. & Resnick, L. B. (1996). Cognition and learning in Berliner, D.C. & Calfee, R.C. (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology.
Technology and education, teaching and learning, scientific inquiry
Teaching/Advising
Courses
LRN_SCI 477 Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Education Reform In this course we will investigate the patterns that emerge in major reform movements of the past century. After considering the early evolution of universal schooling in America, we turn to the scientific management reforms of the early 20th century, John Dewey and the Progressive school movement, the curricular critiques of math and science education of the Sputnik era, the critiques of American schooling from the 1960's to 80's, and the resurgence of the constructivist teaching movement and the hopes for educational technology in the current milieu.