James Slotta

University of Toronto

Collaborator

Jim Slotta has made a prolific career at the intersection of technology and education. His expertise in technology-enhanced learning, STEM inquiry curriculum, knowledge media, and smart classrooms has earned him international recognition, and his research has yielded scores of books and scholarly articles. Jim was a Principal Investigator of the original TELS project and has worked on WISE since its inception, leading development of the original technology and infrastructure and helping to drive WISE research programs.

Jim is currently an Associate Professor with the Department for curriculum, Teaching, and Learning and the Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Totonto. He was previously a professor and Associate Dean for Research at Boston College. He also founded ENCORE lab, a research group of teachers and students focused on collaborative and collective forms of inquiry learning. His research has been funded by NIH, NSF, and universities around the world, and it has yielded WISE; KCI: Knowledge Community and Inquiry; and Common Knowledge, a research environment for scripting and orchestrating collective inquiry.