Stuart Baggaley is a dedicated and passionate classroom teacher with 13 years of experience. With a strong background in educational technology, outdoor education, and teaching elementary grades, he has a proven track record of success in educating and inspiring students of all abilities. He loves working with USU doctoral students by sharing his ideas and students with the research team.
Nate is most interested in how learning environments foster student agency and initiative. Nate grew up exploring the high plains of Laramie, Wyoming, and later the mountain streams of Cache Valley. His curiosity led to studying physics teaching and math education at Brigham Young University. While teaching, he completed a master's degree in physics pedagogy at Arizona State University. After an 8-year teaching career in high school physics and math, he coached teachers in the classroom for one year. Then, realizing he wanted to open a new school, Nate left Utah to study school development at Harvard University. After completing a second master's degree, he joined a team that opened the American International School of Utah—a K-12 charter school in Murray, Utah, that utilizes blended and experiential learning. After four years at AISU, Nate returned to Logan, Utah, to take a job as principal of the Edith Bowen Laboratory School and begin his PhD in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University.
Kenden Quayle is graduating this Spring with a bachelor’s degree through the College of Education and Human Services. She hopes to start the masters program in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences (ITLS) next fall. She is interested in all things design oriented, especially those related to Human-Centered Design.
Kameica Yazzie is an undergraduate researcher assistant for the LearnExploreDesign (LED) Lab at Utah State University. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Health Education & Promotion with an emphasis in community health. As future health educator, she hopes to help all Native people receive the best healthcare possible. Kameica’s research interests include building community health programs using emerging technologies.
Megan Hamilton is a doctoral scholar research fellow, graduate research assistant, and Indigenous researcher in the Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences department at Utah State University. Her research interests include K-12 STEM education, broadening participation in STEM, and developing STEM partnerships between informal and formal learning environments. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe.
Lili Yan, a graduate student, has six-year experience of teaching English in Chinese colleges. She has participated in the nation-wide reform of college English curriculum and courses and helped with the integration of mobile learning and EAP courses when she was teaching in Shanghai. She is an active practitioner of a variety of instructional technologies, ranging from e-portfolio assessments to QR code quizzes. Her latest research project about EAP teaching in Chinese private colleges has been funded by Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Education.
Chase Mortensen, an Undergraduate Research Assistant, is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Utah State University. He is interested in mobile computing and virtual reality, and assists with research involving computational thinking and the Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling (ARIS) mobile application development platform.
