Carrie Demmans Epp

Carrie Demmans Epp joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor in 2018. She teaches courses on HCI and the use of AI in educational applications. Carrie completed her postdoctoral research at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh. Before moving to Pittsburgh, Carrie held Weston and Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowships. She was also a visiting researcher with the Open Learner Models at Birmingham group (UK) and the Graduate School of Language, Communication, and Culture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto, where she developed an adaptive mobile-assisted language-learning tool and explored its use. While earning her MSc at the University of Saskatchewan, Carrie integrated her undergraduate studies in Russian and Computer Science by building an adaptive pronunciation tutor that supported student motivation.

Publications

Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education
Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education
Gokce Akcayir, Carrie Demmans Epp. © 2021. 404 pages.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) provide flexibility in education and have become widely used for the promotion of multimedia learning. This use coincides with...
Two Case Studies of Online Discussion Use in Computer Science Education: Deep vs. Shallow Integration and Recommendations
Two Case Studies of Online Discussion Use in Computer Science Education: Deep vs. Shallow Integration and Recommendations
Gokce Akcayir, Zhaorui Chen, Carrie Demmans Epp, Velian Pandeliev, Cosmin Munteanu. © 2020. 26 pages.
In this chapter, two cases that include computer science (CS) instructors' integration of an online discussion platform (Piazza) into their courses were examined. More...