Bertram (Chip) Bruce, Ph.D.

"ReadWriteThink is an amazing resource, with hundreds of well-designed and reviewed lessons. It's a venue in which people in both school and beyond-school settings can learn from and teach others how to be more successful, creative educators."

Bertram (Chip) Bruce is a Professor in Library & Information Science, Curriculum & Instruction, Bioengineering, the Center for Writing Studies, and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During 2007-08, he held a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the National College of Ireland in Dublin.

Professor Bruce's research goals include contributing to a conception of democratic education, meaning both the development of critical, socially-engaged citizens and of learning environments (schools, universities, libraries, museums, community centers, workplaces, ...), which are themselves democratic. Aspects of this work include research on community inquiry through collaborative community-based work, the theory of inquiry-based learning, drawing especially upon scholarship of the American pragmatists and the history of Progressive Education, and research on the affordances and constraints of new media for learning, encapsulated by the term technology-enhanced learning.