Simon Initiative Hires Learning Engineer

Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Initiative has hired Kimberly P. Law as a learning engineer. Law joins CMU as part of the university's efforts to better understand and develop strategies to overcome the roadblocks to using technology-enhanced learning (TEL) resources. Kim Law previously worked at the National STEM Consortium. "We have several decades of research in how to build and use TEL effectively, and this research has been extremely successful. But it is clear that there are sizable barriers to wide adoption of effective TEL, some rational and some not. This grant gives us the opportunity to take this work to the next level, making these breakthrough techniques available to more students here at CMU and to learners everywhere,” said Richard Scheines , dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the faculty lead of the Simon Initiative, which aims to harness this cross-disciplinary ecosystem of learning science at CMU to measurably improve student learning outcomes. Law, who previously served as the cyber technology and STEM bridge director at the National STEM Consortium, will lead the development of new and innovative TEL courses and support materials in statistics and computer science.