Lisa Dawley

Lisa Dawley achieved her PhD & MA, Education in Teaching & Learning from UC Santa Barbara. She is currently a Senior Innovation Fellow at the Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego. She is a researcher and innovator in the field of virtual learning spaces and distance learning. She is the cofounder of Pactful, which is an app for teens meant to help teenagers build a better world. Much of her research is dedicated to learning and socializing in online spaces.

Some of her most cited work includes

• Dawley, L., Dede, C. (2014). Situated Learning in Virtual Worlds and Immersive Simulations. In: Spector, J., Merrill, M., Elen, J., Bishop, M. (eds) Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3185-5_58

• Dawley, L. (2009), Social network knowledge construction: emerging virtual world pedagogy, On the Horizon, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120910965494

• Hsu, Yu-Chang; Rice, Kerry; and Dawley, Lisa. (2012). Empowering Educators with Google's Android App Inventor: An Online Workshop in Mobile App Design. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(1), E1-E5.

Video:

• Top 10 Online Teaching Strategies

Websites:

• Google Scholar

• University of San Diego