Professional Biography
Jayne C. Lammers is the Director of Learning Design for Edmentum and a lecturer in Penn GSE’s Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. She earned her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Arizona State University. Her work in educational technology builds on her prior roles of proprietary software trainer, secondary classroom teacher, and tenured associate professor. While on faculty at the University of Rochester, Jayne directed the secondary English teacher preparation program, was a founding director of the Center for Learning in the Digital Age, and received a university-wide award for excellence in teaching.
Her research explores learning at the intersections of students’ interests and technology’s affordances, always attending to how her findings can contribute to equitable classroom practice. Jayne has long studied online fandom spaces as educational sites where youth find collaborators, mentors, and other supports for developing identities as writers, and she’s partnered with teachers to study various classroom-based implications of this work at early childhood through postsecondary levels. In 2019, she earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to research the digital literacy practices of secondary students in Central Java, Indonesia.
Jayne is an associate editor for AERA Open. Her scholarship appears in Teachers College Record; Learning, Media and Technology; Research in the Teaching of English; Written Communication; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 Divergent Award honoree for “Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research.”
