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Priya Harindranathan

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EDUCATION

2016 – present (expected date of graduation: Spring 2020), GPA: 3.972 Ph.D. in Education, Equity, and Transformation

School of Education

Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, CO

2010 - 2012

M.Sc. Bioinformatics

Computational Neuroscience Laboratory

Amrita School of Biotechnology

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, India

2003 - 2007

B. Tech. (Bachelor’s in Technology) in Electronics and Communication Engineering Amrita School of Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

PRESENT POSITIONS

2016 (Aug) - present

Ph.D. Candidate in Education, Equity, and Transformation School of Education

CSU, Fort Collins, CO

My dissertation is a mixed-methods study conducted in an undergraduate microbiology course. It focuses on the use of learning analytics methods to inform the implemented learning design to encourage effective learning strategies and self-regulated learning among students. This work will support instructors’ inquiry into student learning in unsupervised technology-enhanced platforms. Additionally, it will encourage instructors to consider intelligent design of learning activities to aid in data collection to understand students’ learning behaviors. 2016 (Apr) - present

Research Assistant

Center for Analytics of Learning and Teaching (C-ALT) CSU, Fort Collins

Design of evidence-based digital learning objects in entry-level Calculus course for STEM where student attrition and ‘DFW’ rates are high. Using these tools, we obtain information on the learning behavior of the students. Thus, early identification of at-risk students is possible within a few weeks from the start of the course, which can help in designing suitable interventions. PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2017 (Jun) –2019 (Jun)

Research Assistant

TRACE project, Program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Member of The TRACE (Trackable Reasoning and Analysis for Collaboration and Evaluation) team. This web-based application is aimed at improving reasoning and intelligence analysis by using structured 2

techniques, crowdsourcing, and smart nudging.

2014 (Oct) –2015 (Dec)

Bioinformatics Consultant and Research Assistant

Department of Education

University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa

• Investigated the nature of science aspects in South African textbooks for grades 10-12

• Technological intervention for STEM learning in autistic students

• Philosophy of technical education

2013 (Oct) –2014 (Oct)

Intern

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – Cognitive Neurology (INM3) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) analysis of fMRI data under the project "Influence of social valence on imitation and observation of facial expression in autism." 2007 (Jun) –2009 (May)

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies, INDIA

Member of a development team for Telcordia Technologies, USA. The project was to implement Mobile Number Portability, which allows users to switch the mobile service provider without changing the current number in use.

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

5. Mexican Education Reform: Elucidating dissenting teachers’ resistance. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (CDIS) doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1811956 (under production) 4. Harindranathan, P., & Folkestad, J. (2019). Learning analytics to inform the learning design: Supporting instructor’s inquiry into student learning in unsupervised technology-enhanced platforms. Online Learning, 23(3), 34-55. doi:10.24059/olj.v23i3.2057 3. Folkestad, J. E., Pilgrim, M. E., Sencindiver, B., & Harindranathan, P. (2019). Student Interactions with Prerequisite Knowledge Tools: How Students’ Daily-Usage Patterns Can Inform Pedagogy in Calculus I. i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology, 16(2), 14-34 https://doi.org/10.26634/jet.16.2.15799

2. Harindranathan, P., & Addo, R. (2019). Developing Cultural Efficacy in an International Social Work Classroom: A Case Study. Journal of Social Work Education (under revisions) 1. Schulte-Rüther, M., Harindranathan, P, Fink, G. R., Pohl, A., Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., & Konrad, K.

(2015). Effective Connectivity of Mirror System Brain Areas in Autism Spectrum Disorder. In International Meeting for Autism Research (Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research) (No. FZJ-2015-04913). Kognitive Neurowissenschaften

in preparation:

• Effective Learning Techniques Embedded in Adaptive Learning Softwares

• Why are Analytics Required Post-Implementation of a Learning Design? Instructors’ Perspectives

• Clustering of Undergraduate Microbiology Students Based on Quiz Usage Data

• Duo-Ethnography of Forming a Graduate Student Association OTHER POPULAR WRITING

1. Harindranathan P. (2020, August 25). NEP 2020: Success of students from low socio-economic 3

backgrounds must be priority. The Week https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/08/25/nep-2020- success-of-students-from-low-socio-economic-backgrounds-must-be-priority.html 2. Harindranathan P. (2020, August 21). India’s caste system is criticized but America’s class system is no better. The GlobePost

https://theglobepost.com/2020/08/21/india-us-caste/ 3. Harindranathan P. (2020, July 1). Why effective online instruction demands teamwork. E-campus News

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/07/01/why-effective-online-instruction-demands-teamwork/ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

04/05/2019: Online Learning Consortium Innovate 2019, Denver

"Exploring Quiz-Usage Data for Detecting Students’ Learning Behaviors: Non-Proctored Online Formative Assessment Platform"

04/17/2018: American Education Research Association (AERA) 2018, New York

"An Integrative Framework to Elucidate Mexican Teachers’ Resistance to the 2013 Education Reform"

04/13/2018: Learning Analytics Summit at the University of Indiana in Bloomington

"Designing meaningful variables in learning analytic studies for providing students with meaningful feedback"

10/2/2018: Center for the Analytics of Learning and Teaching, Colorado State University

"Detecting student engagement in unsupervised learning platforms" TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Designed and taught a course named Statistics and R Programming for undergraduate Biology, UJ, Fall 2015

• Co-developed a course named International Social Work Education, Department of Social Work, CSU, Fall 2017

GRANTS

Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP), U.S. Department of Education, 2019

(applied)

AWARDS

2019: Travel Award from C-ALT for attending Online Learning Consortium Innovate, 2019 2012: Secured 2nd rank in University; 9.7 CGPA (on 10) in M.Sc. Bioinformatics 2009: Awarded for contribution to the project while working with Wipro Technologies, INDIA, for having exceeded the management expectations on various parameters like having clearly understood client requirements and having analyzed and tackled problems, bug free delivery of components, commitment to project and adaptability

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Memberships

American Education Research Association (AERA)

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)

Graduate Woman in STEM (GWIS), Northern Colorado Chapter Founding member School of Education Graduate Association (SEGA), CSU Reviewer

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS, 2019) The European Conference on Information System (ECIS, 2019) FabLearn Asia Conference, 2020

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