Dr. Mimi Recker
Professor
Contact Information
Office Hours: By AppointmentPhone: (435) 797-2692
Email: mimi.recker@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Work History
- 1994-1998, Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
- 1992-94, Research Scientist, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Software Engineer, SRI International
Biography
Mimi Recker’s research focuses on helping the education sector take advantage of the benefits of cyber-learning and teaching. Over the years, this line of research, funded by the National Science Foundation, the J.S. McDonnell Foundation, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, has involved a dynamic mix of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students from USU, as well as colleagues from around the world.
Mimi Recker holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. After a few years working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, she earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Mimi worked for two years at the Georgia Institute of Technology and for four years at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand before joining Utah State University in 1998.
She served as the ITLS Department Head from 2008 to 2015.
Digital Commons Tabletop2Screens NSF Awards Teaching
Projects
- SchoolWide Labs, Supporting Teachers to Integrate Computational Thinking into Science and STEM
- Integrating elementary-level mathematics curricula with expansively-framed computer science instruction
- Tabletop 2 Screens
- Making in Small Town Libraries: A Resource Site for Public and School Libraries
- Educational Data Mining Approaches for Digital Libraries
- Digital Libraries Goes to School
Research Papers
Feel free to request information about publications or contact me directly if you need access to a publication.
Shehzad, U., Clarke-Midura, J., & Recker, M. (2025). Exploring the Potential of Exit Tickets as Formative Assessments of Student Affect. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 32(1).
Beck, K. E., Shumway, J. F., Ocran, P., Clarke-Midura, J., & Recker, M. (2025). Expansively framing mathematics and computer science teaching with digital technology in elementary classrooms. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (IJEMST), 13(4), 812-829.
Bhaduri, S., Recker, M. Biddy, Q., & Rummel, M. (2025). Community partnership design of a maker-related camp for underserved youth: Impacts on youth's present and future learning trajectories. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 44.
Clarke-Midura, J., Zandi, S., & Recker, M. (2025). Exploring the Role of Boundary Infrastructures in Facilitating Learning in a Research-Practice Partnership. In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Helsinki, Finland: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Hennessy Elliott, C., Nixon, J., Schneider, M., Bush, J. Recker, M (2024). Characterizing teacher support of debugging with physical computing: debugging pedagogies in practice. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. New York: ACM.
Shehzad, U., Clarke-Midura, J., & Recker, M. (2024). Examining the Role of Parental Support on Youth's Interest in and Self-Efficacy of Computer Programming. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 24(3), 1-23. New York: ACM.
Lee, V. R., Robillard, S., Clarke-Midura, J., Shumway, J., & Recker, M. (2024). Negotiating Inherent Asymmetries of Co-Design: A Case of Integrative Elementary Mathematics and Computer Science Instruction.Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 13(1).
Beck, K., Shumway, J., Ocran, P., Clarke-Midura, J., & Recker, M. (2024). Expansive Framing of Mathematics and Computer Science: Supporting Paraprofessionals and Classroom Teachers in Cross-Curricular Teaching. In Proceedings of 15th International Congress on Mathematics. Sydney, Australia. ICME-15.
Beck, K.E., Shumway, J.F., Shehzad, U., Clarke-Midura, J., & Recker, M. (2024). Facilitating mathematics and computer science connections: A cross-curricular approach. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (IJEMST), 12(1), 85-98.
Completed Research Graduate Students
Doctoral students I have advised are listed below. Often, these students are funded through research grants, and have published based on their collaborations with me and other faculty members.
- Aubrey Rogowski (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2024)
- Umar Shehzad (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, December 2023)
- Megan Hamilton (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2023)
- Courtney Stephens (MS, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences,, May 2021)
- Joana Franco (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, December 2020)
- Ji-Eun Lee (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, August 2019)
- Jennifer Hansen (MS, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2018)
- Peter Blair (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2017)
- Min Yuan (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, December 2015)
- Gisela Martiz (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, August 2015)
- Brooke Robertshaw (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, 2014)
- Zhiling Liu (EdS, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, 2014)
- Linda Sellers (EdS, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, 2014)
- Hui Qiao (EdS, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, 2014)
- Lei Ye (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, August 2013)
- Bart Palmer (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2012)
- Beijie Xu (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2011)
- Kristy Bloxham (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, December 2010)
- Delroy Brinkerhoff (Ph.D., Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, May 2010)
- Xin Mao (Ph.D., Instructional Technology, December 2007)
- Deonne Dawson (Ph.D., Instructional Technology, August 2007)
- Jim Rogers (Ph.D., Instructional Technology, August 2007)
- Stacie Gomm (Ph.D., Instructional Technology, August 2004)
- Andrew E. Walker (Ph.D., Instructional Technology, December 2002)
- Rebekah Richards (M.S., Instructional Technology, August 2001)
Post-doctoral Fellow Advising
- Umar Shehzad, 2023-2025
- Jessie Nixon, 2021-2023
- Colin Hennessy Elliott, 2020-2022
- David Wiley, 2000-2001