Associate Professor
IPT, EIME
Office: 150-G MCKB
Phone: 801-422-2765
Email: nope@heather.leary@byu.edumsn.com
Dr. Leary is an Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology. Her research focuses on tackling complex educational challenges in K-12 and higher education. She works collaboratively with practioners in various disciplines (e.g., science, math, arts) and spaces (e.g., online environment, professional development) to iteratively design and implement potential solutions. She uses design-based research, research-practice partnerships, problem-based learning, and research synthesis to generate useable knowledge and alignment between the principles of learning and instructional practice.
She graduated from Utah State University in 2012 with her PhD in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Institute of Cognitive Science and a Visiting Research Scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research from 2011-2015. She designed curricula for the online programs at BYU-Idaho from 2015-2016. She is an active member of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
Undergraduate Courses:
IPT 371 - Integrating K–12 Educational Technology 1
IPT 372 - Integrating K–12 Educational Technology 2
Graduate courses:
EIME 720 - Design-Based Research
IPT515R - Problem-Based Learning
IPT 520 - Foundations of Instructional Technology
IPT 653 - Qualitative Research I
IPT 661 - Introduction to Evaluation
IPT 753 - Advanced Qualitative Research
Teacher Professional Learning
Technology Integration
Problem-Based Learning
Curriculum Adaptations
Student Success
STEM+Arts Education (STEAM)
21st Century Skills and Literacy
Problems of Practice
Design-Based Research
Research-Practice Partnerships
Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis
Characteristics of students who opted in to use boost mobile app as an educational support service
Innovations in Instructional Design and Technology Programs A View from PIDT 2018
Professional development for online teaching: A literature review
Research trends in instructional design and technology journals
A newcomer's lens: A look at K-12 online and blended learning in the Journal of Online Learning Research
Research-Practice Partnerships: Addressing K-12 Educational Problems Through Active Collaborations
Designing a Deeply Digital Science Curriculum: Supporting Teacher Learning and Implementation with Organizational Technologies
Teachers, Tasks, and Tensions: Lessons from a Research-Practice Partnership
A Meta-Analysis of Problem-Based Learning: Examination of Education Levels, Disciplines, Assessment Levels, Problem Types, Implementation Types, and Reasoning Strategies
Teaching and Learning Information Synthesis: An intervention and rubric based assessment
Exploring the Relationships Between Tutor Background, Tutor Training, and Student Learning: A Problem-Based Learning Meta-Analysis
Expanding Approaches for Understanding Impact: Integrating Technology, Curriculum, and Open Educational Resources in Science Education
Adopting an Online Curriculum Planning Tool: Facilitation for teachers’ thinking about constructive pedagogy and technology integration
Mathematical tasks as boundary objects in design-based implementation research
Tensions in a multi-tiered research-practice partnership
The Role of School District Science Coordinators in the District-Wide Appropriation of an Online Resource Discovery and Sharing Tool for Teachers
Characterizing and Predicting the Multi-faceted Nature of Quality in Educational Web Resources
Comparing Technology-Related Teacher Professional Development Designs: A multilevel study of teacher and student impacts
Designing for problem-based learning: A comparative study of technology professional development
Automating Open Educational Resource Assessments: A Machine Learning Generalization Study
Developing and Using a Review Rubric to Assess Learning Resource Quality in Education Digital Libraries
A Study of Teachers' Use of Online Learning Resources to Design Classroom Activities