Meet Julia
Julia Phelan, Chief Learning Engineer
To Eleven
About Julia
Julia Phelan is the co-founder of To Eleven an innovative education consultancy firm specialized in incorporating learning engineering into custom solutions to address teaching and learning needs and improve learning experiences. To Eleven's mission is to partner with organizations to design and implement rich learning experiences grounded in science, human behavior, and evidence-based principles to move all learners forward. Julia has a Ph.D. in education from UCLA and her work focuses on engaging teachers, researchers, policymakers, and the public in reflection and action to improve teaching, assessment, and learning, and its link to educational quality.
Prior to co-founding To Eleven, Julia spent over twenty years as a research and learning scientist at UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST), as well as consulting and advising for school districts, philanthropic organizations, academic publishing, ed tech, corporate training, and government agencies. She is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Julia frequently speaks, writes, and conducts training workshops on how to best implement learning science-based strategies and techniques connected to how people learn.
Session: Implementing strategies to increase engagement, active participation, and learning!
September 29th, 2:15 - 3:00p
In this session, I will discuss and look to answer the question: how can we increase learner engagement and active participation in our training sessions? The key is to align and connect teaching and training techniques to how people learn. I will focus on how we can leverage learning science principles to create effective and efficient learning experiences that help learners engage in activities that foster and encourage the storage of new information. We will talk about ways we can help learners make meaning of new information and truly LEARN, through the activities we create and embed in our learning environments.