Associate Professor, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy
Louis Gomez is an Associate Professor of Learning Science and Computer Science at Northwestern University. Professor Gomez’s primary interest is working with school communities to create effective curricula that support school reform while connecting schools to external communities of practice, such as the scientific community.
He is a director of the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS)—a collaboration among Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the Detroit and Chicago public schools—to research and develop ways to employ new computing and networking technologies to support science learning. He also co-directs the Learning through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project at Northwestern to blend next-generation computing and communication technologies with open-ended scientific inquiry in high school classrooms.
Before joining Northwestern, Professor Gomez was director of Human-Computer Systems Research at Bellcore in Morristown, N.J. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley (1979), and a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook (1974). He joined CAST’s Board of Directors in 2003.
