David williamson shaffer biography
David Williamson Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning analytics at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Educational Psychology.
David Williamson Shaffer (born May 10, in New York City, NY) is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the department of Educational Psychology, the Obel Foundation Professor of Learning Analytics at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, a Data....
David Williamson Shaffer
American academic (born )
David Williamson Shaffer (born May 10, in New York City, NY) is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the department of Educational Psychology, the Obel Foundation Professor of Learning Analytics at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, a Data Philosopher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and Principal of EFGames, LLC.[1][2]
Education and career
Shaffer received an A.B.
in History and East Asian Studies () from Harvard University and his M.S. () and Ph.D. () in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Shaffer was a student of James J. Kaput, Mitchel Resnick, William J. Mitchell and Seymour Papert, who studied with Jean Piaget.[3]
Shaffer began his career as a teacher at The Mountain School, an independent school in Vershire, VT.
He taught and worked as a teacher-trainer in the US Peace Corps in Nepal from – in a secondar
