Tina Grotzer

Dr. Tina Grotzer is a cognitive and learning scientist who studies learning and education as it relates to complexity and navigating a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. She is the Faculty Director of the Next Level Lab (NLL) which focuses on new visions for learning that push our ability to innovate and perform at leading edge of our competence. Her work as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Cognition in a Complex World Lab focuses on the challenges of reasoning about complex causal forms and building instructional supports for developing sustainability-minded citizens and shifting mindsets from short-term to long-term thinking and towards more global, collective perspectives. This work included the EcoLEARN Projects where she developed virtual worlds and immersive, technology-based simulations.