Krystle Phirangee

Biography

Dr. Krystle Phirangee is a Senior Researcher for the PeppeR project and a Senior Consultant, Learning Design for The Ottawa Police Service Traffic Stop Race Based Data and The SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on “Blackness in Canada” projects at York University. She has a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Sociology, a Bachelor of Education in the Primary and Junior divisions of Elementary Education, and a Master of Education in Educational Technology from York University. Her MEd thesis explored teachers’ views and experiences of web 2.0 technologies in the elementary classroom and was published in the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia.

Krystle also has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto which focused on the role of community in online learning. She has successfully published her dissertation data in special issues of the Online Learning Journal. Krystle is also a journal reviewer for the Online Learning Journal, the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, and the Journal of Research on Technology in Education. Her research focuses on digital learning such as fostering a sense of community in online/blended environments, social-emotional behaviour, mobile learning, and instructional design.