Joshua Danish
Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Danish is a professor and learning sciences researcher with a decade of academic experience focused on designing educational technologies and studying how representations—drawings, graphs, and maps—shape science learning. He blends rigorous research (PhD and MA from UCLA) with early-career industry practice as a programmer, designer, and producer for educational software, bringing rare practitioner-informed perspective to technology design. At Indiana University he held leadership roles including directing a center for research on learning and technology and serving as program chair, and he now continues his faculty work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His background in computer science (BS, Johns Hopkins) underpins a quantitative and design-minded approach to instructional problems. Colleagues value his ability to translate cognitive theory into usable learning tools and classroom-ready representations. He is based in Illinois and known for bridging classroom practice, design, and computational implementation in actionable ways.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Rye High SchoolJohns Hopkins UniversityPhD, Education, PhD, Education at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (10)
quality-assurance9
dotnet7
jekyll5
bibtex5
citations5
gitlab4
ruby4
bibliography3
csl3
static-site-generator2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
theRAPTLab/art-assets
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:252 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
embodiedplay/embodiedplay.github.io
May 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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