Biography of Elliot Soloway
For the past 15 years, Soloway and his colleagues in the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (HI-CE) have been exploring the new opportunities for teaching and learning afforded by computing technologies. Taking advantage of the recent emergence of mobile, wireless, handheld technologies – at a cost of a pair of tennis shoes €“ Soloway and his colleagues are developing scaffolded learning environments based on this new technology that support gains in achievement and motivation. In 2002, Soloway was selected by University of Michigan students as the winner of the Golden Apple Award as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year; in 2004, Soloway was selected by engineering students as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year in UM’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
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