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Deepti Tagare, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow - Bridge to Faculty Program, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

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I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Bridge to Faculty program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I have a Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. As an engineer turned educational researcher my primary area of research is computer science education. I investigate the integration of computational thinking skills and AI literacy in K-12 education with a special focus on teacher-readiness to implement these competencies in their teaching. I work closely with Association of Computing Machinery - India to facilitate teacher trainings on computational thinking skills. As part of the NSF funded project, DEAPening Employer-Academia Partnership, I examined the need for cross-disciplinary skills and dispositional competencies in undergraduate computing degree program curricula and continue to work with computer science faculty across various higher education institutions in the US to implement this change in their courses.  In the past 10 years, I have worked on several instructional design projects in both industry and academia that include smartbooks, ebooks, AI-based learning platforms, Augmented Reality learning environments, and gamified learning content.

 

Teaching

  • Publishing Research in Learning Design and Technology
  • Digital Storytelling and Learning
  • Developing AI tools for K-12 Education
  • Instructional Design

Research Interests

  • Computational Thinking skills
  • AI Literacy
  • Competency-based pedagogy in computer science education
  • Dispositional competencies in computing education

Degrees

  • Ph. D., Learning Design and Technology, Purdue University, 2024
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication, Pune University, 2011

Presentations

  • Develop a Competency-based Curriculum that Purposefully Integrates Computing Skills, Cross-Disciplinary Skills, and Dispositions [Workshop]
    • Venue: 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024. Portland, Oregon.
    • Presentation Date: 2024
  • Teachers' Perspectives on Computational Thinking Skills: A Phenomenological Study
    • Venue: American Educational Research Association
    • Presentation Date: 2023
  • Use of Gamification and Reflection in Teacher Training for Computational Thinking: A Design Case
    • Venue: Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
    • Presentation Date: 2022
  • Emergent Formative Roles in an Interdisciplinary, Multi-institutional Research Project: A Collaborative Autoethnography
    • Venue: AECT Summer Research Symposium
    • Presentation Date: 2022
  • Assessing In-service K-12 Teachers’ Computational Thinking Skills in India
    • Venue: AERA Graduate Student In-Progress Research Gala
    • Presentation Date: 2021
  • K-12 Teachers' Competency in Performing Computational Thinking Skills: Does Professional Development Help?
    • Venue: Northeastern Educational Research Association
    • Presentation Date: 2021
  • Designing Virtual-Reality Learning Experiences for Authentic Learning and Fidelity and Learner Self-Efficacy and Learning Transfer
    • Venue: American Educational Research Association
    • Presentation Date: 2022
  • Dispositions in Computing and Implications for Instructional Design Education
    • Venue: Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention. Orlando, FL, United States
    • Presentation Date: 2023
  • Computing Professionals’ Problem-solving Approaches Seen Through a Design Thinking Lens
    • Venue: Association for Educational Communications and Technology International Convention. Orlando, FL, United States.
    • Presentation Date: 2023

Publications

  • Tagare, (2024). Factors That Predict K-12 Teachers' Ability to Apply Computational Thinking Skills. Transactions on Computing Education, 24(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3633205
  • Tagare, , Janakiraman, S., Exter, M., Duan, S., Sabin, M., & Tavakoli, J. (2023). Dispositions that Computing Professionals Value in the Workplace: Systematic Literature Review and Interviews with Professionals. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '23). Association for Computing Machinery, Chicago, IL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600118
  • Tagare, D., Tavakoli, J., Exter, M., Sabin, M., & Frezza, S. (2023). Beyond the Cognitive: Educator Readiness for Fostering Dispositions. In Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference. College Station, Texas: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October, 2023. 1109/FIE58773.2023.10343241
  • Tagare, D., Exter, M.E., Ashby, I. (2023). The Many Hats – Accidental Roles on an Interdisciplinary Research and Implementation Project: A Collaborative Autoethnography. In: Hokanson, B., Schmidt, M., Exter, M.E., Tawfik, A.A., Earnshaw, Y. (Eds), Formative Design in Learning. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41950-8_21
  • Lowell, V., & Tagare, D. (2023). Authentic Learning and Fidelity in Virtual Reality Learning Experiences for Self-Efficacy and Transfer. Computers & Education: X Reality, 2, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cexr.2023.100017
  • Duan, S., Exter, M., Tagare, D., Sabin, M, Janakiraman, S. (2023). Essential Competencies for Computing Managers: Skills and Dispositions. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11869-4