Jonathan Michael Spector is an American academic working as the professor of learning technologies and the

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coordinator at the

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. He was previously professor of

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at the

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and instructional systems at

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Early life and education

Spector was born in

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. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in international affairs from the

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in 1967 and a PhD in philosophy from the

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at Austin in 1978. __NOTOC__

Career

Spector's research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. He has authored over 150 publications in the field of

educational technology Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning and teaching. When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech" ...

and edited the ''Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology'' and the ''Encyclopedia of Educational Technology''. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in China, India, and Malaysia and was a Fulbright research scholar at the

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. He was a past president of the

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