Carl Bereiter

Carl Bereiter is a Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Along with Marlene Scardamalia, he developed CSILE (later Knowledge Forum®), the first networked system for collaborative learning, and its accompanying theory and pedagogy, Knowledge Building. His book Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age elaborates the epistemology and psychology underlying Knowledge Building. His academic honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, election to the U.S. National Academy of Education, and a lifetime achievement award (shared with Scardamalia) for “seminal contributions” to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. His educational contributions are profiled in the Routledge Key Guide, Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.