The following list of scholars are important names in my primary areas of interest: mathematics curriculum studies, digital manipulatives and visualizations, and computational thinking.
Janine Remillard: Dr. Remillard is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on the ways in which mathematics teachers interact with curriculum materials, and how these interactions influence classroom instruction and teacher and student learning. Her work was a major factor in shifting studies of curriculum materials from focusing exclusively on student learning to focusing instead on the ways teachers mediate the effects of curriculum materials.
Jeffrey Choppin - Dr. Choppin is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Teaching and Curriculum at the School of Education at the University of Rochester. He studies teachers' use of curriculum materials as well as the curriculum materials themselves. Particularly relevant to my interests, he has produced a few typologies of digital curriculum resources that catalogue their potentially transformative features.
Birgit Pepin - Dr. Pepin is Professor at the University of Technology Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on mathematics curriculum materials and how they can be used for teacher learning. She co-authored a number of recent studies focusing on how technology positions teachers as creators of curriculum materials as opposed to merely consumers. This represents a new perspective on studies of curriculum materials.
Paul Drijvers - Dr. Drijvers is a Professor of mathematics education at the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He studies the influence of technology on mathematics education from a variety of perspectives. Particularly relevant to my work is his interest in the perspective of "mid-adopting teachers" (teachers who are willing to try technology-based curriculum materials but not as enthusiastic as typical early adopters). His focus on such teachers provides a much-needed perspective on how we can encourage wide adoption on new kinds of curriculum.
Patricia Moyer-Packenham - Dr. Moyer-Packenham is a Professor of Education at Utah State University. Her work focuses on use of various mathematics representations in student learning, with a particular emphasis on digital representations. Her definition of virtual manipulatives (VMs) is often cited in other work and she is considered a leader in research around VMs.
Orit Hazzan - Dr. Hazzan is a faculty member in Education at the Israel Institute of Technology. She works primarily in computer science education but also has interests in collegiate mathematics education. Her work is significant to my interests particularly because she has published several articles examining parallels between students' learning of computer science and of mathematics.
Michal Armoni - Dr. Armoni is a senior scientist at the Weismann School of Science in Israel. She studies computer science education for ages ranging from middle school through undergraduates. Her work is particularly influential through its attention to demonstrating that particular computer science topics can be taught effectively to young students, and that early exposure to ideas such as abstraction may lead to broadening participation in computer science.