Associate Director, Learning Experience Design in the Center for Academic Innovation; Lecturer in the School of Education
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About
Dr. Rebecca Quintana is a Lecturer at the School of Education, where she teaches courses such as Educational Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality (a DSI graduate certificate course), Video Games and Learning, and Learning Experience Design. She co-directs the Rackham Certificate in Learning Experience Design, a joint collaboration between the Center for Academic Innovation and the School of Education that focuses on the design and evaluation of technology-enhanced learning environments. Quintana is also a faculty affiliate with the Digital Studies Institute and a member of the Diversity Scholars Network with the Center for Institutional Diversity.
Quintana applies learning sciences theories and methods to her research, which focuses on online learning, immersive learning environments, and equitable and inclusive design. Along with her collaborators, she explores how people learn with technology, including with tools that enable social learning and knowledge building. In her teaching, she advances innovative approaches that use technology to instantiate community-oriented approaches to instruction. She earned her PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the department of curriculum, teaching and learning.
