Janet Kolodner

Janet L. Kolodner is an American cognitive scientist and learning scientist and a retired Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was Founding Editor in Chief of The Journal of the Learning Sciences and served in that role for 18 years. She was Founding Executive Officer of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). From August, 2010 through July, 2014, she was a program officer at the National Science Foundation and headed up the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program (originally called Cyberlearning: Transforming Education). Since finishing at NSF, she is working toward a set of projects that will integrate learning technologies coherently to support disciplinary and everyday learning, support project-based pedagogy that works, and connect to the best in curriculum for active learning.

Kolodner graduated with a B.S. in math and computer science from Brandeis University in 1976. She then completed her M.S. in computer science in 1977 and her Ph.D. in computer science in 1980 from Yale University. She is a retired Regents' Professor of Computing and Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing in Georgia Tech's College of Computing. She spent the 1996-97 academic year as a Visiting Professor Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. From August, 2010 until July, 2011, she was on loan to The National Science Foundation, where she is a Program Officer in the CISE and EHR Directorates and has responsibility for the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program (renamed Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies).

In 1992, Kolodner was elected a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for "pioneering research on case-based reasoning and learning, including memory organization, information retrieval, problem solving, and knowledge acquisition."

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