Krista Poscente is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Technology at the University of Calgary and the current Gallagher Galileo Fellow. Krista is honoured to be mentored by such an outstanding group of educators and researchers. The Galileo Education Network http://www.galileo.org/index.html is an educational organization dedicated to improving student learning through sustained staff development.
Krista received her Master's degree in Distance Education from Athabasca University where she simultaneously learned and experienced distance education theory. Krista has worked as a Multimedia Instructional Designer for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and web communications specialist for the Canadian Association of Distance Education. Kristas research interests include distance education, communication technologies, rural education, and mathematics in education.
The Three Dimensions of Learning: Contemporary Learning Theory in the Tension Field between the Cognitive, the Emotional and the Social. Author: Knud Illeris