Faculty and Tutors
Faculty
Bob Brandes
Interest areas: counselling, developmental psychology, stress management, and communication / decision-making / critical thinking.
Dr. Andrew Chiarella
Interest areas: educational technology, particularly social software; educational psychology, cognition and instruction; distributed cognition; the interdisciplinary fields of the learning sciences and cognitive sciences.
Dr. Linda Chmiliar
Interest areas: learning disabilities, social skills instruction, collaborating with parents, and augmentative communication. I am very excited about the Diploma in Inclusive Education as I believe it offers individuals a great opportunity to increase their skills and knowledge in the area of working with special needs students in regular education settings.
Dr. Trevor Gilbert (Chair)
Interest areas: psychological and neurodegenerative disorders, epilepsy and anticonvulsant drugs, kindling, neuropsychopharmacology, educational technology, and online learning.
Dr. Lyle Grant
Interest areas: instructional psychology; instructional design; concept learning; computer-based instruction; critical thinking and independent reasoning; self management; behavior analysis of education; direct instruction.
Dr. Bob Heller
Interest areas: language; memory; aging; technology in teaching.
Dr. Cheryl Kier
Interest areas: child and adolescent development, family interaction, learning styles, racism and discrimination.
Dr. Cheuk Ng
Interest areas: environmental psychology; cross-cultural psychology; social psychology; industrial/organizational psychology.
Dr. Geoff Peruniak
Interest areas: experiential learning processes; adult education; distance education; community education; career and employment counselling; organizational development; philosophy of education.
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