Roy Pea

Prof. Roy Pea is David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University, Co-PI of the LIFE Center and Co-Director of the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research (H-STAR) Institute. He has published widely on K-12 learning and education, especially in STEM fostered by advanced technologies. He is co-author of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan for the US Department of Education. In 2004-2005, he was President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. He also served from 1999-2009 as a Director for Teachscape, a company he co-founded with CEO Mark Atkinson. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.