Ann-Louise Davidson
Associate Professor
Concordia University
About the author
Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson is a Professor in Educational Technology and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Maker Culture. She is the Director of the Innovation Lab and Associate Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology where she also directs #MilieuxMake, the Milieux makerspace initiative. She created Education Makers, a community of educators, students and community members who strive to develop the emergent profile of maker education with an edge.
She co-designs innovative learning experiences and concepts that draw on crucial themes, such as global issues, health, sustainability and youth motivation, through concrete maker activities such as building gaming tables, gamepads, wearable computing, pedagogical robotics, computational thinking and 3D printing, while engaging marginalized communities.
She developed an international reputation for her disruptive pedagogical innovations with emergent and digital technologies. She is currently involved in several institutional projects including a micro-credentials initiative. She has published numerous papers on learning with technology, recent issues with digital technologies, has engaged in research creation, and has given keynote speeches in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
