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Barry Fishman is an Associate Professor of Learning
Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Education and School of
Information. His research focuses
on the use of technology to support teacher learning, standards-based systemic
school reform, and the role of educational leaders in fostering classroom-level
reform involving technology. He is
a principal investigator in the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in
Education, and currently serves as an Associate Editor
of The Journal of the Learning
Sciences.
Barry’s current research is an NSF-funded experimental study of teacher learning in face-to-face and online conditions that examines the relationship between professional development modality and changes in teacher knowledge, practice, and student learning. This research builds on prior research in professional development design, including the construction of an online professional development tool for use in curriculum-based reforms called Knowledge Networks On the Web (KNOW).
Barry is the 2001 recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and the 2003 Pattishall Junior Faculty Research Award from the University of Michigan, and his work with the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools was recognized with an Urban Impact Award from the Council of Great City Schools and as a Computerworld/Smithsonian Laureate.
Barry received his A.B. from Brown University in English and American Literature in 1989, his M.S. from Indiana University in Instructional Systems Technology in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 1996.