Julie Schell

Hi, I'm Julie Schell - seeker of educational change, everywhere.

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Dr. Julie Schell is the senior educational researcher within the Mazur Group of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and an instructional designer at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. Her passion is inspiring educational change, everwhere. She studies innovative ways to improve learning and teaching in diverse contexts, such as disciplines, institutional types, and geographic locations. Dr. Schell has worked on change efforts from K-12 classrooms in the Rio Grande Vally of Texas to major STEM research intitutes in Malaysia.  She is an expert in the flipped classroom and Peer Instruction. In 2012, she and Professor Mazur co-founded the Peer Instruction Network, a global social network connecting innovative educators, everywhere. She received her doctorate in Higher Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her dissertation, Venturing Toward Better Teaching: STEM Professors’ Efforts to Improve their Introductory Undergraduate Pedagogy at Major Research Universities, was selected as Dissertation of the Year from the Higher and Postsecondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association in 2010.  Dr. Schell has an M.S. in instructional technology and authors the official Peer Instruction blog, Turn to Your Neighbor, where she writes about flipping classrooms using interactive, technology and research-based pedagogies. Follow Julie on twitter @julieschell

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Educational Research, SEAS, Mazur Group at Harvard University

2009 - 2012

External Admissions Reader at Yale University

2006 - 2010

Instructor, Program in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University

2003 - 2009

Intern, Fierce in the Schools at Fierce, Inc.

February 2007 - March 2007

Mentoring Program Manager at Point Foundation

2004 - 2007

Developed and directed mentoring program for LGBT scholars at colleges and universities across the U.S.

Director, Judicial Clerkships, Columbia School of Law at Columbia University

2002 - 2005

Student Affairs Officer, Stanford Law School at Stanford University

2000 - 2002

Coordinated Judicial Clerkship Program

Research Associate at Harvard University

August 2012

Senior educational researcher, Mazur Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Focus on diffusion and uptake of pedagogical innovation across diverse contexts, specializing in flipped classrooms, Peer Instruction, innovative assessment, and learning science and theory.

Educational Consultant, Initiative for the Development of Academic Innovation at LASPAU - Affiliated with Harvard University

August 2010

Focus on diffusion and uptake of pedagogical innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct workshops on teaching and learning improvement for higher education faculty across the region and provide special consulting on the assessment of teaching innovation.

Faculty Development Specialist and Instructional Designer at The University of Texas at Austin

June 2010

Instructional Designer, Center for Teaching and Learning. Instructional Design lead for multimillion dollar initiative to build state of the art courses that leverage the power of blended learning and cognitive science on how students learn best. Work includes integration of multiple learning design and conceptual frameworks including those pertaining to MOOCs, online and blended/hybrid learning curricula, flipped classrooms, technology-enabled learning, classroom response systems, interactive learning, collaborative learning,interactive teaching, cognitive science, assessment, and non-cognitive skills development, and college readiness.

Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University

2009

Theories of Diversity in Higher Education

Harvard University

2009 – 2012

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Teachers College of Columbia University

2002 – 2009

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

Concentration: Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

University of Nevada-Reno

1998 – 2000

Master of Science (M.S.)

Concentration: Educational/Instructional Technology

University of Nevada-Reno

1992 – 1997

BS Honors

Concentration: Health Sciences

Learning theory, cognitive science, e-learning, instructional design, flipped learning, Peer Instruction.