Monica Bulger is an educational researcher contributing policy research to multi-national groups such as UNICEF and the European Commission. Through her research, she quantifies concepts that are challenging to measure, such as digital literacy, engaged learning, and online harms. She explores these topics through classroom observation, data mining, surveys, interviews, and literature reviews. She is currently a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. She earned her Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Web Science Trust, Transliteracies Project, and National Writing Project. Her teaching background in the often unpopular topic of writing informs much of her work on student engagement and learning. Her blogs for DMLcentral will explore the contexts in which technologies are used for learning and how lessons from DML research can be applied locally, in classrooms and informal learning environments.
Monica Bulger
Articles
March 6, 2017
When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students
Editor's note: The following is a discussion between Data & Society Research Institute researchers Monica Bulger and Mikaela Pitcan and Jade Davis, associate director of Digital Learning Projects at LaGuardia Community College. In...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningSeptember 8, 2014
What We Miss by Comparing MOOCs to Traditional Classrooms
“They hear a program about sea creatures, another about the North Pole. Werner’s favourite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths. When they find it, Werner feels as if he...
Category: Digital LearningFebruary 6, 2014
Why Technology Alone Can’t Fix the Education Problem
For more than a decade now, I’ve internally cringed whenever someone talks about the promise of technology in education. Often, discussions of iPads, video games, laptops for all focus on the potential...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeJuly 15, 2013
It’s obviously summer because my news alerts are no longer steadily reporting concerns about education, our children’s future, the problems with teachers, etc. Perhaps now, then, is the perfect time to address...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice