Technology Enhanced Leaner Speaker Series
“Learning at the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Technology:
Making the Most of What Research Tells Us”
Michelle Miller
VDA 040: February 21st 11:30 – 12:30pm
Abstract: One of the great promises of
educational technology is that it offers new
ways to leverage research findings from
cognitive, brain, and learning sciences.
Attention, memory, and thinking skills all
play pivotal roles in learning, and the
research literature in offers a rich set of ideas
for how to take advantage of these
mechanisms in teaching with technology.
But, there is a complication: These cognitively-optimized approaches often require
more effort from students, not less, and students lacking self-regulation skills will
miss out on the benefits technology can bring. In this talk, Dr. Michelle Miller will
discuss strategies for bringing cognitive and motivational research together in
technology-enhanced learning activities that make the most of what we know about
how the mind works
Bio: Michelle D. Miller is Director of the First Year Learning Initiative, Professor of
Psychological Sciences, and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern
Arizona University. Dr. Miller's academic background is in cognitive psychology; her
research interests include memory, attention, and student success in the early
college career. Dr. Miller’s current work focuses on using psychological principles to
help instructors create more effective and engaging learning experiences, and to
help students become more effective learners. Dr. Miller co-created the First Year
Learning Initiative at Northern Arizona University and is active in course redesign,
serving as a Redesign Scholar for the National Center for Academic Transformation.
She is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard
University Press, 2014), and has written about evidence-based pedagogy in
scholarly as well as general-interest publications including College Teaching,
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, Inside Higher Ed, and The Conversation.
Refreshments provided. Please RSVP to Lauren Sarni at [email protected] by
February 17th.
This program will be video and audio taped and may
be podcast. By your willing participation in the
program, you expressly and irrevocably consent to be
photographed, videotaped and/or audio taped and
quoted/cited. The films, tapes, and other digital
recordings will become the property of the
Technology Enhanced Learning, LMU.