Dr. Roy Clariana
Roy Clariana is a tenured professor in Learning Design and Technology at Penn State University, where he's taught since 1997. Before joining academia, he worked in corporate training and educational software. Originally from Arkansas, Roy started his career as a high school math teacher and later spent five years in Kenya with the Peace Corps, teaching biology and training future volunteers.
He also worked as a project director in Oxford, UK, for an educational software initiative and received a Fulbright research award in Finland. A quantitative researcher, his recent work includes a National Science Foundation project exploring how implicit concept structures in texts impact brain activity and eye-tracking.
Roy’s current NSF project has developed GEEKS, a browser-based tool that provides students with knowledge structure feedback on their writing. GEEKS can be used across subjects and age levels without the need for a training set.