Johannes Strobel

Assistant Professor
Engineering Education & Educational Technology

Education

Ph.D.	University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004, Information Science & Learning Technologies
M.Ed.	University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002, Learning Technologies
B.S.	Saarland University, Germany, 1999, Information Science
B.A.	Saarland University, Germany, 1998, Religious Studies
B.Ph.	Munich School of Philosophy, Germany, 1997, Philosophy

Courses Taught

ENGR 100	First-Year Engineering (Purdue University)
ETEC 693AAA	Social Computing and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (Concordia University)
EDUC 305	Technology for Educational Change I (Concordia University)
ETEC 693C	Designing Constructivist Learning Environments (Concordia University)
ETEC 693D	Introduction to Digital Media for Education (Concordia University)
ETEC 560/660	Introduction to Educational Computing (Concordia University)

and others. . .

Professional Experience

2007-Present	Assistant Professor, Engineering Education & Educational Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2005-2007	Assistant Professor, Educational Technology & Member of Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2001-2004	Manager & RA, Center for the Study of Problem Solving, RA @ kite.missouri.edu (Teachers' stories technology integration), Co-Founder & Fellow, Learning Sciences Institute.
1997-2001	RA - Multimedia Applications in Education, RA - Video-conferencing studio, Saarland University
1999-2000	Founding Company "Education in Europe Consulting"
1999-2000	Assistant Knowledge Manager, IDS Scheer AG (IT consulting)
1998	Consultant, Educational Movie Service, Munich
1997	Refugee Worker, Jesuit Refugee Services (Croatia)

Research

Professor Strobel's research focuses on the intersection between learning and technology.  He is interested in:

- Desigining and integrating open-ended, problem-based learning environments into curricula

- Designing and enabling sustainable on-and off-line communties

-Social computing applications in education (including game-based approaches)

--Problem solving in the workplace and how it informs classroom instruction

-Use of computers as cognitive tools

-Design cognition and identities

-Historical reasoning as a vehicle to foster critical and higher-order thinking.

He is drawing from theories of conceptual development and change, domain-specific reasoning and epistemological beliefs, and employs qualitative, participatory, and design-based research methodologies.

Selected Publications

 Clariana, R. & Strobel, J. (in press) Modeling Technologies.  In J.M. Spector, M.D. Merrill, J.J.G. van Merrienboer, & M.P. Driscoll (Eds.) AECT Handbook of Educational Communications and Technology. 3rd Ed., Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 Strobel, J., Jonassen, D.H. & Ionas, I.G. (in press) The evolution of a collaborative authoring system for non-linear hypertext: A design-based research study. Computers & Education.

 Hyslop-Margison, E.J. & Strobel, J. (in press) Constructivism and Education: Misunderstandings and Pedagogical Implications.  The Teacher Educator.

 Niederhauser, D.S., Lindstrom, D.L., & Strobel, J. (in press).  Addressing the NETS*S in K-12 Classrooms

 Strobel, J. (2007) Composition of Compound Problems and Transitions within Compound Problems: Workplace Research to Inform Engineering Education.  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, Hawaii: June, 22-June 24, 2007.

 Zhang, D., Shaw, S. & Strobel, J. (2006) Embedding Instructional Design Supports in Course Management System - Implications from Literature Review.  Paper accepted for ED-MEDIA-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Orlando, FL, June 26-June 30, 2006.  (Published in proceedings of EdMedia).

 Strobel, J. & Tillberg-Webb, H. (2006).  Applying a critical and humanizing framework of instructional technologies to educational practice.  Paper presented at the First Research Symposium of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Indiana, Bloomington, June 22-25, 2006.

 Strobel, J. & Idan, E. (2006).  Integrating Scaffolds into Goal-based Scenarios: The Case of An Interactive Game on Biodiversity for Children.  In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference for Interaction, Design and Children (IDC 2006), 3 pages.

 Strobel, J. (2006). Participatory design strategies for eLearning: a design-based research approach in the field of Educational Technology.  In J. Multisilta (Ed.) Proceedings of the workshop on human centered technology.  Pori Publications, Tempere University of Technology, 9 pages.

 Jonassen, D., Strobel, J., & Lee, C.B. (2006) Everyday Problem Solving in Engineering: Lessons for Engineering Educators, Journal of Engineering Education, 95, 2, 139-150.

 Jonassen, D.H., Strobel, J., & Gottdenker, J. (2005). Model Building for Conceptual Change, Interactive Learning Environments, 13, 1-2, pp. 15-37.

 Strobel, J. & Jonassen, D.H. (2004). Supporting being historians: Historical reasoning with a cognitive flexibility authoring hypertext in Gerjets, P., Kirschner, P.A., Elen, J. & Joiner, R. (Eds.) (2004).  Instructional design for effective and enjoyable computer-supported learning.  Proceedings of the first joint meeting of the EARLI SIGs Instructional Design and Learning and Instruction with Computers (CD-ROM), pp. 208-219.

 Strobel, J., Cernusca, D., Jonassen, D.H. (2004). Different majors - different epistemological beliefs?, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring 2004, 208-219.

Jonassen, D.H., Wang, F.K., Strobel, J. & Cernusca, D. (2004).  Applications of a Case Library of Technology Integration Stories for Teachers, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 11, 4, 529-548.