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Rate My Professor Chris Hoadley

University at Buffalo

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5.08/20/2025

Challenges students to reach their potential.

5.04/30/2025

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About Chris

Christopher Hoadley is a Professor of Learning Sciences in the Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Director of the UB Institute for Learning Sciences. He earned an S.B. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from UC Berkeley in 1999. Hoadley's career spans research and academic positions at SRI International from 1998 to 2002, Pennsylvania State University from 2002 to 2008, New York University from 2008 to 2022—where he was program director of Educational Technology programs from 2011 to 2013 and founding program director of the Games for Learning program—and the National Science Foundation from 2013 to 2016 as program director for the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program. He has held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Mills College, Penn State University, and New York University in fields including education, computer science, and information sciences. Hoadley founded the dolcelab, the Laboratory for Design of Learning, Collaboration & Experience, and previously chaired the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Education in Science and Technology (now SIG: Learning Sciences).

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