Alyssa Friend Wise is Professor of Technology and Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development. She is also the new Director of the Learning Incubator: a Vanderbilt Endeavor (LIVE).聽
Dr. Wise's research is situated at the intersection of the learning sciences and educational data science, focusing on the design of learning analytics systems that are theoretically聽grounded, computationally robust, and pedagogically useful for informing teaching and learning. She has published extensively on the identification of useful traces of learning in large data聽sets and the application of these to inform educational decision-making by designers, instructors and students. Her work ranges from applying natural language processing, social network聽analysis and predictive modelling techniques to extract meaning from MOOC data to interpretative mixed-method investigations of the ways in which educational practices are being聽reshaped as students and instructors have access to new sources of data about their own teaching and learning. She has also conducted influential research on the design of computer聽supported collaborative learning systems in both online and physical environments and is particularly known for her pioneering work conceptualizing and researching learners' online聽listening behaviors. You can access many of Dr. Wise's publications through her聽.
Dr. Wise served as an Editor-in-Chief of the聽聽from 2017 to 2021 and as an Associate Editor of the聽聽from 2016 to 2019. She currently serves on the聽Editorial Boards of the聽, the聽听补苍诲听She also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the聽聽from 2012 to 2018 and on the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Committee within聽the聽聽from 2012 to 2016. Previously Dr. Wise was Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Technology & Learning Design Programs at Simon Fraser University in Canada after several years spent teaching High School Physics and Computers in Brazil and Ecuador. She holds a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences and M.S. in Instructional Systems Technology, both from Indiana University, and a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University.