Dr. Schuh earned her PhD in Cognitive Science and Instructional Systems Technology, and a Masters in Educational Psychology, from Indiana University at Bloomington. She holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education as well as Masters degrees in Computer Science and Education from North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on how students create meaning, the instructional environments and tools that foster that process, and the worldview that grounds it. The primary thread that runs through her scholarship trajectory is how learners are able to make meaning and how that process may be mediated. Mediation, as used in her work, focuses on elements that are often at the learners’ and instructors’ disposal and are naturally occurring – typical tools that are used, the environment and the interactions that take place within, and (primarily) learners’ prior knowledge. Given this mediational stance, her studies are grounded in contemporary learning theories, particularly aspects of socio-cultural constructivism, semiotics, and the mind as rhizome metaphor.

Dr. Schuh currently hosts a number of research teams comprised of student volunteers who engage in various parts of the research process from study development to data collection and analysis to writing, presentation, and publication. She also works collaboratively with students on projects of their own choosing.