Dr. Jan L. Plass is a Professor at New York University, holding the Paulette Goddard Chair in Digital Media and Learning Sciences..
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Jan Plass
Professor at New York University & Founding Director of the CREATE Consortium
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Dr. Jan L. Plass is a Professor at New York University, holding the Paulette Goddard Chair in Digital Media and Learning Sciences. He is the founding director of the CREATE Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technology in Education and co-director of the Games for Learning Institute.
Dr. Plass draws from a broad range of fields, including cognitive science, learning sciences, computer science, and works to to envision, design, and study the future of learning with digital technologies, especially for underserved communities.
He is the author of over 120 journal articles, chapters, and conference proceedings, has given more than 200 presentations, and is the lead editor of Cognitive Load Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and of the Handbook of Game-based Learning (MIT Press, 2020).
Dr. Plass is a frequent national and international keynote speaker and advisor, helping governments and corporations to increase the human capacity in an ecology of lifelong learning by applying cognitive science and learning sciences principles.
