Square Pegs for Round Holes: Why Education Reforms Fail: Bill Watson at TEDxPurdueU 2014

Bill Watson is an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University. He is the director of the Purdue Center for Serious Games and Learning in Virtual Environments, which conducts research on and provides support for implementing, designing and developing educational video games and virtual environments for learning. His research interest focuses on the transformative change of education to realize a learner-centered paradigm, including the application of technology such as video games, virtual environments, and learning management software in order to create personalized learning environments.

B.A., English, Indiana University, 1998
M.S., Information Science, Indiana University, 2000
Ph.D., Education, Indiana University, 2007

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