Amber Rowland

Affiliation

University of Kansas

Biography

Amber Rowland, PhD, is an Associate Research Professor with the Center for Research on Learning at the Life Span Institute and the Achievement and Assessment Institute, as well as an instructor at the University of Kansas. She specializes in collaborative, practical, and engaging adult professional learning with an emphasis on current instructional practice and the powerful integration of technology. She is currently exploring how innovative technology solutions such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, and progress monitoring tools can support learning. She serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on three Office of Special Education and Policy (OSEP)-funded projects. Project VOISS built and is testing a virtual reality environment to teach students communication skills, combined with a teacher progress monitoring and professional learning suite to implement and generalize learned skills to physical spaces. Project iKNOW is infusing VOISS with artificial intelligence to create more natural interactions between the user and extended reality space. Project APLM-WRITE has built and is testing on online dashboard system to support virtual coaches as they work with educators to implement evidence-based tools and strategies with their students.