Clare Brett

Ph.D., OISE, University of Toronto
Associate Professor

Website: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/cbrett/

Dr. Brett teaches in both the pre-service and graduate programs, offering courses in educational psychology; “Theories of Learning” and “Computer Mediated Communication.” Details of her courses can be found here: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/cbrett/archives/2005/03/courses.html

Dr. Brett was awarded a Distinguished Contributions to Teaching in 2006, and a CFI New Opportunities Fund Award in 2003.

Dr. Brett has received a number of recent research grants. Three major grants include a 3-year SSHRC Standard Research grant entitled “Investigating Research Apprenticeship in Online Graduate Education.” This project investigates the apprenticeship experiences and educational outcomes of students taking Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Education primarily through online, part time programs. The research is being developed in conjunction with a CFI infrastructure grant, a New Opportunities Fund Award, “Bringing Research Apprenticeship Online: Reconceptualizing Graduate Distance Education.” In the third project she is a collaborator on an Initiative for the New Economy SSHRC collaborative grant: “Beyond Best Practice: Research-based innovation in learning and knowledge work.” Details of these grants can be found here: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/cbrett/archives/2005/03/projects.html