Alene Harris

Research Assistant Professor of Education

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1988

Research Area

Her research interests involve effective teaching and learning, especially in secondary science classrooms and at the post-secondary level in bioengineering education. Current activities include research and development of classroom observation instruments that quantify the classroom experience. As an investigator with the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, she has developed and conducted workshops on this topic for various departments of Biomedical Engineering across the country.

Short Biography

Alene H. Harris, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor of Education at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. She taught in Nashville, TN, for 16 years in suburban, inner-city, and private school classrooms before pursuing a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

For three years as Research Assistant Professor of Special Education, she coordinated research involving classroom management, effective teaching, and mainstreamed students. For ten years as a Research Assistant Professor of Education she served as the Project Coordinator and National Trainer for the program COMP: Creating Conditions for Learning, where she developed both teacher- and trainer-level workshop curricula and conducted workshops with over 2,500 teachers and administrators throughout the United States and American territories.

For the past five years her focus has included the postsecondary level. As the Director of the Educational Program for the VaNTH (Vanderbilt-Northwestern-University of Texas-Harvard/MIT Health Sciences) Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, she has developed and conducted workshops in applying principles of effective teaching and learning in college-level classes. In this role she has conducted workshops for University faculties and graduate students across the country, including Vanderbilt, Northwestern, the University of Florida, the University of Washington, Duke, Harvard, and MIT.

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