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Dr. Julie Schell
Teacher Leader Luncheon
Dr. Julie Schell is the incoming Director of OnRamps and Strategic
Initiatives at the Center for Teaching and Learning at The University
of Texas at Austin. Before joining UT, Dr. Schell served as the senior
educational researcher in the Mazur Group at the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where she also completed
a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Eric Mazur. She received
her doctorate in higher education from Teachers College, Columbia
University and has an MS in Educational Psychology with an emphasis
in instructional technology from the University of Nevada, Reno. 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 is an international expert in
instructional innovation, specializing
in collaborative, blended, and flipped
learning.
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