Elizabeth Owen Email Address

Curriculum Board Member and Advisor

Age of Learning blends education best practices, innovative technology, and insightful creativity to bring learning to life for children across the U.S. and around the world.

Elizabeth Owen holds a PhD in Digital Media (School of Education) from UW-Madison, focused on game-based learning analytics. Currently the Director of Learning and Data Science at Age of Learning, she's committed to optimizing adaptive learning systems through applied machine learning. Previously a researcher and data scientist with GlassLab Games (EA campus), LRNG, and Metacog, her doctoral work is rooted at the Games+Learning+Society Center (GLS). Elizabeth came to graduate school after helping underserved populations as a teacher in Los Angeles for 10 years. After experiencing success with simulation-based, computer-supported instruction – and seeing the strong impact of assessment on her students’ self-efficacy and learning – she set out to make an impact through doctoral research in data-driven design of adaptive learning worlds. Recent projects include: • Data-driven learning game design with GlassLab Games (as researcher & data scientist) • Educational Data Mining research/design with Metacog, Inc. and Dr. Ryan Baker • ADAGE (a GLS game-based assessment framework) • Tenacity (a GLS collaboration with Dr. Richard Davidson’s Affective Neuroscience Lab) • Progenitor X (a GLS regenerative biology game, created with the Wisc Institute for Discovery) • Research team member in the Pop Cosmo lab (with Dr. Constance Steinkuehler, advisor) • Complex Play Lab (with Dr. Matthew Berland), modeling game-based computational thinking with big data analytics