Peter Doolittle is currently the Director of the School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology, as well as the former Assistant Provost, at Virginia Tech. His academic background includes 30 years teaching undergraduate and graduate students in educational psychology, research methods, and statistics, at various institutions in the U.S. and abroad. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, provided over 100 national and international keynote addresses, and has been awarded in excess of $2 million in external funding. In 2013, he provided a TED talk at TED Global in Edinburgh, Scotland (How Working Memory Makes Sense of the World). His current research focus includes the investigation of the impact of working memory capacity on student learning in digital learning environments.

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