Rebecca Reynolds
Chair and Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
Faculty, PhD LIS Faculty
Biography
Rebecca Reynolds' work investigates intentional and incidental human learning in formal educational settings of K-12, higher education, continuing education, as well as informal and naturalistic online participatory learning settings. She applies learning sciences, design-based research, socio-technical systems research and critical informatics perspectives. Reynolds also studies and engages in evidence-based, participatory and community-based educational technology design, development and evaluation. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Information and Learning Sciences, published by Emerald.
Reynolds is currently chair of the Library and Information Science department at SC&I. She has received external funding for her research from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and National Science Foundation and internal funding from Rutgers University. She serves on the advisory board of the Rutgers Center for Math, Science and Computing Education (CMSCE). Her work has won two Best Paper Awards at ASIS&T (2021, 2022). She has also won department awards for research, teaching and service.
Reynolds is currently finalizing a co-authored book on ed-tech platform governance in the "Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons" book series published by Cambridge University Press. She has an active program of design-based research leveraging theories of epistemic cognition to build teaching and learning experiences to counter mis- and dis-information. Her work also addresses AI uses in education from critical ed-tech studies perspectives pertaining to privacy rights, issues of surveillance, intellectual property, data justice, and labor studies.
Education
Ph.D., Mass Communication, Syracuse University
M.A., Media Studies, Syracuse University
B.A., Sociology, Tufts University