Yael Kali
Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning

Director of the Learning In a NetworKed Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) (2013-2018) and the Taking Citizen Science to School (TCSS) center (2017-2022)
Technologies in Education Graduate Program
Department of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Education
Faculty of Education
University of Haifa
199 Anna Khoushy ave.
Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838
Israel
email: yael.kali@edtech.haifa.ac.il

Yael Kali is a Professor of technology enhanced learning at the University of Haifa, and a fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (since 2021). She is the founding director of two Israeli centers of research excellence—Learning In a NetworKed Society (LINKS, 2012-2018) and Taking Citizen Science to School (TCSS, 2017-2022). Using design-based research and design-based implementation research, Kali explores technology-enhanced learning and teaching at various contexts and age levels, from junior high school to higher education, and as part of teacher professional development programs. Her work focuses on the role of design principles for supporting learning and collaborative design, especially within networks of research-practice partnerships. She has served as an Associate Editor for the journal Instructional Science from 2012 to 2020, and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning & Cognition, University of Sydney (2010-2011), and at the School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder (2018). 

Education

  • B.Sc. Institute of the Earth Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989
  • M.Sc. Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1993
  • Ph.D. Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2000

Ranks and Affiliations

  • Visiting Scholar, School of Education and Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, spring 2018.
  • Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Technologies in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, 2010 to date.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion, 2009 to 2010.
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion, 2003-2008.
  • Visiting Scholar, The Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo), Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia, 2009-2010.
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT), Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2002.