ABOUT
Namsoo Shin serves as the Associate Director of Global Engagement in the CREATE for STEM Institute and is an Associate Professor in Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University. She is interested in the research and development of individualized, customized learning environments to support the learning of all students. She is engaged in complex research and evaluation of various projects and in designing classroom activities, learning technology tools and assessment. Her work focuses on evidence-based learning progressions to inform curriculum, instruction and assessment design and supporting learners in developing everyday problem-solving skills. She received the Young Researcher Award, Association for Educational Communications and Technology in 1999. She received an invited professorship from Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea in 2011, and an invited research professorship from Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, South Korea in 2009. Namsoo spent 10 years at the University of Michigan before coming to MSU in 2015. Namsoo received her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems from Pennsylvania State University (Advisor: David H. Jonassen, Ph.D.) in 1998
