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 Elisabeth (Betty) Hayes is a professor in the Division of Learning, Technology and Psychology in Education at ASU’s Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2007, she was a professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a founding member of the Games, Learning, & Society research collective. She brings to gaming research a background in adult literacy education, adult learning and gender equity. She has been on the faculties at Syracuse and Rutgers University, and was an adult literacy teacher and teacher trainer.
Dr. Hayes’s current research interests focus on gender, digital technologies and learning, particularly the development of IT fluency. She is the author and editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Women as Learners (2000). Dr. Hayes was a lead investigator on two MacArthur-funded projects: GameDesigner, a collaborative project with the NYC company gameLab to create innovative game design software helps young people acquire technical, artistic, and cognitive skills, and the TechSavvy Girls project, which investigated how gaming can be a starting point for the development of IT fluency, particularly for girls and women. Currently she is investigating how simulation games like The Sims can support young people’s (particularly girls’) acquisition of model-based reasoning skills.
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