Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) and Center for Electronic Studying , College of Education, University of Oregon
Dr. Anderson-Inman has a Ph.D. in special education, with an emphasis on content-area reading, writing, and studying. She is Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) and the Center for Electronic Studying, both in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Dr. Anderson-Inman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of technology to improve reading, writing and studying, with special emphasis on strategies for using technology to enhance the academic success of struggling learners at the secondary level. She pioneered the concept of "computer-supported studying," conducting research and developing materials on strategies designed to promote effective learning through the use of computers as study tools. She has served as principal investigator on more than 20 federally funded projects, investigating interventions such as (1) computer-based study strategies for diverse learners, (2) digital books with "supported text," (3) networked note taking for ESL students, and (4) large scale Web-based environments for promoting authentic historical inquiry. Indicative of her research credibility and conceptual leadership, Dr. Anderson-Inman was recently awarded a five-year $3,000,000 contract by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs to launch a national research center investigating the impact of “supported text” on the reading achievement of secondary students with disabilities.