Researcher

Elizabeth (Liz) Charles

Department of Pedagogical Research, Photography

Elizabeth (Liz) Charles’ research over聽the past nine years has been dedicated to understanding the impact of pedagogical and techno-pedagogical innovations on students鈥 learning and how these might be designed to better support learners鈥 needs.聽Most recently Liz, along with colleagues from Dawson, Vanier and John Abbott College, was awarded her fifth consecutive聽聽grant. This work will involve the examination of pedagogical ecosystems created in active learning classrooms and the implications of the learning activities and artifacts. She is a co-researcher on a SSHRC grant with researchers from the Universit茅 de Montr猫al, which focuses on the effects of new learning spaces on motivation and cognitive engagement.

Contributions to Dawson’s Community

Is the co-Director of聽聽(Supporting Active Learning & Technological Innovation in Science Education), a consortium of CEGEP and University educators that promote 聽鈥減edagogical change involving innovations in instruction and leveraging the use of educational technology to promote learning鈥. In addition to supporting the development of a community of practice, SALTISE hosts annual conferences.

Publications

  • Charles, E.S, Whittaker, C., Lasry, N., Dugdale, M., Lenton, K., Bhatnagar, S.,Guillemette, J. 鈥 Taking DALITE To the Next Level: What have we learned聽from a web-based peer instruction application.鈥 Proceedings of the 11th International聽Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014).International Society of the Learning聽Sciences: Boulder, CO.
  • Charles, E.S., Whittaker, C., & Lasry, N. 鈥 Taking DALITE To the Next Level:聽What have we learned from a web-based Peer Instruction application.鈥 Paper presented at聽33rd annual AQPC symposium: Laval, QC.
  • Charles, E., Whittaker, C., & Lasry, N. (2014). 鈥淎ctive Learning Classroom Use in聽College Level Physics: The impact of technology design and adaptive orchestration.鈥澛燬ymposium entitled: Space and Technologies for Learning in Schools, Museums and聽Workplaces: Recent Approaches in Design-Based Research.鈥澛燩aper presented at the聽American Educational Research Association (AERA): Philadelphia, PA.
  • Charles, E., Lasry, N., et Whittaker, C. 鈥淟鈥檃doption d鈥檈nvironnements聽sociotechnologiques comme moteur de changement p茅dagogique.鈥 P茅dagogie Coll茅giale,聽26 (3).
  • Lasry, N., Dugdale, M. & Charles, E. 聽鈥 Just in Time to Flip Your Classroom.鈥 The Physics Teacher, 52(1): 34-37.
  • Lasry, N., Dugdale, M. et Charles, E. (2014). 鈥淶ut! J鈥檃i renvers茅 ma p茅dagogie.鈥 聽P茅dagogie Coll茅giale, 27, hiver.
  • Lasry, N., Charles, E., & Whittaker, C. 鈥 When teacher-centered instructors are聽assigned to student-centered classrooms.鈥 聽Physical Review Special Topics-Physics聽Education Research, 10(1), 010116.
  • Lasry, N., E. Charles, C. Whittaker, H Dedic, S Rosenfield (2013). 鈥淐hanging classroom聽designs: Easy; Changing instructors鈥 pedagogies: Not so easy.鈥 聽AIP Conf. Proc. (1513),聽AIP Press, Melville NY.

Education

  • Charles, E.S, Whittaker, C., Lasry, N., Dugdale, M., Lenton, K., Bhatnagar, S.,Guillemette, J. 鈥 Taking DALITE To the Next Level: What have we learned聽from a web-based peer instruction application.鈥 Proceedings of the 11th International聽Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014).International Society of the Learning聽Sciences: Boulder, CO.

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