Dr. Andrew Chiarella
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Humanities & Social Sciences
Athabasca University
Canada
Biography
joined Athabasca University in 2009 following the completion of my doctorate in educational psychology at McGill University. I mostly coordinate and tutor undergraduate courses in educational psychology (EDPY 200, EDPY 310 and PSYC 310) and those that focus more on uses of educational technology (EDPY 480). As well, I coordinate one of two introductory psychology courses (PSYC 289).
Research Interest
My research focus is on the empirical study of learning and instruction in traditional school subjects, and the development of educational technologies. My current research focuses on the study of social annotation systems. I designed and programmed a software application – called CoREAD – which aggregates the annotations of a community of readers and adds text signals to the text based on this community consensus. Principles and characteristics of complex, self-organizing systems were used to design CoREAD.
Publications
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Chiarella, A. F. (2012, April). The influence of self-organized, social text signals on readers' behaviour: Collective intelligence or unchecked imitation? Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Chiarella, A. F. & Chmiliar, L. (2012). Reading together: Indirect collaboration through a social software application. Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1772-1776). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Chiarella, A. F. & Chmiliar, L. (2013, April). Deriving social text signals from individual annotations of a digital text. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
