Faculty

Ricki Goldman

Professor of Educational Communication and Technology

Ricki Goldman

Phone: 212 998 5524
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Dr. Ricki Goldman— media and learning theorist, digital video ethnographer, and software inventor—is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the CREATE Lab at NYU. Her research interests focus on student learning in technology-rich learning environments, "quisitive" research methods, and the design of an online tool for video data analysis.  Recently Goldman is exploring how video technologies  lie at the interstices of social networking and social justice issues.

Goldman pioneered the-field of Digital Video Ethnography, a method she uses to create rich video exemplars of children’s thinking. She is author of Points of Viewing Children’s Thinking: A Digital Ethnographer’s Journey (LEA, 1998) and designer of the accompanying interactive website with video cases  <http://www.pointsofviewing.com>. She recently spearheaded the highly acclaimed edited volume, Video Research in the Learning Sciences (LEA, 2007) with co-editors Roy Pea, Brigid Barron, and Sharon Derry. For more than two decades she has studied how children learn when immersed in mediated mathematics and science cultures.

In the CREATE Lab, Goldman and her team design digital video analysis tools—most recently, a tool called Orion™ <http://www.videoresearch.org>.  She has authored and edited books, articles and chapters, and presented scholarly papers and experimental video analysis software at over a hundred scholarly events on what she has coined the Points of Viewing Theory (POV-T) and the Perspectivity Framework for online video analysis. Her research has been generously awarded with grants from prestigious government agencies. 


Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Media Arts and Science; MIT Media Lab's Epistemology & Learning Group
  • M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Education: Didactics & Language
  • Diploma Langara Community College
    Early Childhood Education
  • B.A. University of British Columbia
    English Literature

Awards

  • 2005 : American Educational Reseach Association Best Journal Reviewer of Educational Researcher, 2005.
  • 2003 : Provost’s Annual Master Teacher Award, NJIT
  • 2003 : College of Computing Science Department Teaching Excellence Award
  • 1998 : Canada’s Network of Centers of Excellence (NCE) in Telelearning First Prize in Software Category for video analysis tool, WebConstellations™
  • 1998 : ACM’s Computer Graphics Quarterly: 25th Anniversary Best Cover Award
  • 1995 : National Academy of Education's Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship

Publications

  • Goldman, R., Pea, R., Barron, B., and Derry, S. (Eds). (2007). Video research in the Learning Sciences. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (link)
  • Starr Hiltz, R. & Goldman, R. (May, 2004). Learning together online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1998). Points of viewing children’s thinking: A digital ethnographer’s journey. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (link)
  • Goldman, R. (2004). Digital video design ethnography as a vehicle for change: A perspectivity meme spreads in a class of „wild and crazy teens“. Cambridge Journal of Education, Cambridge, England.: Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Goldman, R., Crosby, M., Swan, K. & Shea, P. (2004). Introducing Quisitive Research: Expanding qualitative methods for describing dearning in ALN. In Starr Hiltz, R. & Goldman, R. (Eds). Learning together online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Mahwah, New Jersey: LEA
  • Starr Hiltz, R. & Goldman, R. (May, 2004). What are asynchronous learning networks? In Starr Hiltz, R. & Goldman, R. (Eds). Learning together online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Mahwah, New Jersey: LEA.
  • Goldman, R. & Starr Hiltz, R. (May, 2004). Asynchronous learning networks: Looking back and looking forward. In Starr Hiltz, R. & Goldman, R. (Eds). Learning together online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Mahwah, New Jersey: LEA.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. & Maxwell, J.W. (2002). Computers, the Internet, and new media for learning. In W. M. Reynolds & G. E. Miller (Eds.), Handbook of psychology. Volume 7: Educational psychology (pp 393–427). New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 393-428.
  • Jacobsen, M. & Goldman, R. (2002). A hand-made’s tail: A novel approach to educational technology. In B. Barrell (Ed.), Technology, teaching and learning: Issues in the integration of technology. Calgary: Detselig, pp. 83–113
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1998). Gender and digital media in the context of a middle school science project. Meridian, An Online Journal on Middle School Education. Debut Edition 1(1), http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1996). Looking through layers: Reflecting upon digital ethnography. JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Curriculum Studies 13(1), pp. 23–30.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1996). Challenges facing researchers using multimedia tools. Computer Graphics Quarterly 28(1), pp. 48–52.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1994). Whose story is it, anyway? An ethnographic answer. IEEE Multimedia 1(4), pp. 7–12.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1995). Configurational validity: A proposal for analyzing multimedia ethnographic narratives. Journal for Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 4(2), pp. 163–182.
  • Jonesson, D, Goldman-Segall, R. & Maurer, H. (1996). DynamIcons as dynamic graphic interfaces: Interpreting the meaning of visual representation. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 12(1), pp. 35–48.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1995). Deconstructing the Humpty Dumpty myth. In E. Barrett (Ed.), Contextual Media, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 27–52.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1993). Interpreting video data. Journal for Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 2(3), pp. 261–282.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. & Reicken, T. (1993). The growth of a multimedia school culture: A multivoiced narrative. The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. http://www.infomotions.com/serials/aejvc/aejvc-v01n7.html
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1992). Collaborative virtual communities: Using Learning Constellations, a multimedia ethnographic research tool. In E. Barrett (Ed.), Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 257–296.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1991). A multimedia research tool for ethnographic investigation. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.), Constructionism, Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishers, pp. 467–496.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. (1991). Three children, three styles: A call for opening the curriculum. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.), Constructionism, Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishers, pp. 235–268.
  • Goldman-Segall, R. & Reicken, T. (1989). Thick descriptions: A tool for designing ethnographic interactive videodisks. SIGCHI Bulletin 21(2), pp. 118–122.

Courses

  • ED19.2018, Integrating Media and Technology into K-12 Curriculum