MacArthur Chair, Digital Media & Learning, UCLA
In 2011, Louis M. Gomez was named the first MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, CA.
Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Gomez was the inaugural holder of the Dr. Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh and a senior scientist at the university's Learning Research and Development Center. In addition, Dr. Gomez will also serve as a senior scientist at the university's Learning Research and Development Center.
His scholarship focuses on understanding how to support organizational change in schools and other institutions. Along with his colleagues, Professor Gomez has been dedicated to collaborative research and development with urban communities to bring the current state-of-the-art in instruction and support for community formation to traditionally underserved schools. Professor Gomez is a nationally recognized scholar dedicated to transforming instruction in urban schools.
Most recently, Professor Gomez has turned his attention to problem solving research and development. This is R&D organized around high-leverage problems embedded in the day-to-day work of teaching and learning and the institutions in which these activities occur.
Professor Gomez 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). Professor Gomez joined CAST’s Board of Directors in 2003.
