Rebecca Quintana

Rebecca M. Quintana is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan (U-M). She co-leads the Rackham Learning Experience Design Graduate Certificate.  Her teaching is situated within the Designing for Innovation: Learning, Instruction, and Technology concentration within Educational Studies. Quintana is also a faculty affiliate with the Digital Studies Institute and a member of the Diversity Scholars Network with the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Quintana’s scholarship emphasizes the application of learning sciences to the design of technology-rich learning environments, with a focus on tools that enable social interaction and immersive learning. In her teaching, she advances equitable and inclusive approaches to instruction. She has received recognition for teaching innovation with an award from the Digital Studies Institute. Quintana is an active presenter at major research conferences, such as the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. She currently holds the elected position of Program Chair for the Online Teaching and Learning SIG within AERA. Quintana’s research has been published in outlets such as Information and Learning Sciences, Tech Trends, and Online Learning Journal.