Professor
This
is Jim Levin's third time back to UCSD, and he hopes
that the
third time will be the charm. He grew
up in western Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Psychology
from Swarthmore College in eastern PA. He first came
to UCSD in 1969, where he earned a Ph.D. in Psychology.
He set off for LA city, working at a computer science
research institute in Marina del Rey as the token
psychologist while living in Venice CA. After discovering
that Venice
is not Marina del Rey, he returned to UCSD in 1978,
teaching in the Communications Program and the Teacher
Education Program. In 1985, the University of Illinois
made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and he and
his wife Sandy and daughter Tera headed east for
the plains
of Champaign. He returned to sunny southern California
in September 2003 as a faculty member in the Ed.D.
program in Teaching & Learning.
His
research focuses on distributed learning and on ways
to help people
learn better using powerful distributed learning
environments. He has developed several innovative
models of learning,
including the concept of teleapprenticeships. He
has been studying "teaching teleapprenticeships",
instructional frameworks that allow education students
to learn within the context of remote K-12 classrooms.
He is especially excited by the ways in which new
technologies fundamentally change the relationship
between education
and the rest of society. He likes to take walks on
the beach with his wife.
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