Dr. Valerie Irvine, Co-Director

Dr. Valerie Irvine is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria (UVic). She has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Instructional Technology) from the University of Alberta, where she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship. She also holds two bachelor degrees from the University of British Columbia in Education and English.

Valerie has been involved in the field of educational applications of information and communication technologies for over a decade. She is the co-founder and co-director of the new $750,000 CFI/BCKDF-funded Technology Integration and Evaluation (TIE) Research Lab, which includes high definition codecs, mobile laptop carts, recording and streaming solutions, graduate student research space, an experimental classroom, and advanced video, statistical, qualitative, and log data analysis software. The lab was also funded by multiple sources at the University of Victoria and Knowledge North (CANARIE).

Her research interests involve integrating and evaluating educational technologies into various learning environments (distributed or face-to-face) and with various populations (health, higher ed, K-12). Specific programs involve technology adoption models and mainstreaming multi-access learning environments with open access. She teaches in the preservice teacher education program and has a research interest in teacher education and the role of social media in professional development. You can follow her on twitter .

Read Valerie's blog or meet her graduate students.

Research projects, interests & goals

Dr. Valerie Irvine's work has focused on educational applications of information and communication technologies (ICT). Her research interests include:

  • Educational Technology
  • Theories of Technology Adoption
  • Integration and Evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education
  • The integration of ICT in learning environments (teacher education and informal learning)
  • Distributed E-Learning; Online Learning Community Development
Dr. Valerie Irvine is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction Education at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Education. In this video, Valerie discusses her research into multi-access learning, studying different ways for students to access their education through personalized approaches.