Roy Pea

Stanford University

Stanford David Jacks Professor of Learning Sciences and Education

Roy Pea is the David Jacks professor of education and learning sciences at Stanford University, and Director of the Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD) PhD Program. Pea's research has centered on how innovations in computing and communications technologies can influence learning, thinking, collaboration, and educational systems, and most recently has been focusing on bridging the sciences of informal and formal learning, and studies of socially-augmented learning technologies. He received his doctorate from Oxford University where he studied developmental psychology and psycholinguistics as a Rhodes Scholar. Pea is a co-editor of the 2020 Routledge Handbook of The Cultural Foundations of Learning, the 2018 Volume Learning Analytics and Education, of the 2007 LEA volume Video Research in the Learning Sciences, and is a co-author of How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience and School (2000).