FACULTY BIOS >> SARA DEXTER
Office: 166 Ruffner
Hall
Phone: (434) 924-7131
e-mail: sld4h@Virginia.EDU
Sara Dexter is an assistant professor
of technology leadership who joined the UVA faculty
in fall 2004. Dr. Dexter is developing a series of course
offerings on technology leadership for teachers, technology
coordinators,and principals, which will begin the fall
of 2005. Prior to her arrival she was an Assistant Professor
for one year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
and before that a Research Associate at the Center for
Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)
at the University of Minnesota for six years. She has
also been a junior high and high school science teacher
as well as a district staff developer specializing in
educational technology.
Throughout her career Dr. Dexter has focused research
on the integration and implementation of educational
technology in K12 schools. She has been the principal
investigator for over $3.5M of federally funded grants,
in addition to working on several other sponsored projects.
These include the ETIPS cases and Ed-U-Tech, both PT3
grants, the ExemplaryTechnology-Supported-Schooling
Case Studies Project, and Teaching, Learning and Computing
1998. These are described in further detail and linked
to at her website.
In 2002 Dexter was elected Chair of the AERA SIG: Computer
and Internet Applications in Education; she is a member
of the editorial review board of the Journal of Educational
Computing Research and Journal of Computing inTeacher
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