Stanford University
Professor of Education and Learning Sciences
roy.pea@stanford.edu
The Institute for Research in Learning was a not-for-profit initially funded by the Xerox Corporation, and co-directed by John Seely Brown, George Pake, and James Greeeno - and located in Palo Alto, California.
I joined IRL near its inception, and developed the first K-12 projects and technology development efforts in the NSF-funded Dynagrams Project, and the MediaWorks Project.
The intellectual environment of IRL was also vital to the development of my work on distributed intelligence, and to uses of the developing conceptions of "communities of practice" (Lave and Wenger), "cognitive apprenticeships (Collins, Brown, Duguid), and "communities of learners" (Brown and Campione were regular visitors).
In this period, I was also an active collaborator on the Picasso Project with Philips NV, investigating the uses of multimedia communication tools and environments over the Internet.
