Beverly Park Woolf

<h2 id="education-and-career">Education and career</h2>
<p>Woolf majored in physics as an undergraduate at <a href="/facts/Smith_College/BqGRElj9">Smith College</a>. She continued her studies as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning a master's degree in computer science in 1980, a Ph.D. in computer science in 1984, and an Ed.D. in 1990.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
</p><p>She returned to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a faculty member in 1992, became a research professor there in 2006,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> and directed the university's Center for Knowledge Communication.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> She has retired to become a professor emerita.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="books">Books</h2>
<p>Woolf is the author of <i>Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-Centered Strategies for Revolutionizing E-Learning</i> (Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). She is a coauthor of <i>Transforming Learning with New Technologies</i> (with Robert W. Malloy, Ruth-Ellen A. Verock-O'Loughlin, and Sharon A. Edwards, Pearson, 2010; 4th ed., 2021).
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<h2 id="recognition">Recognition</h2>
<p>Woolf was named a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Artificial_Intelligence/BjScke2s">Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence</a> in 1996, "for contributions to the science, technology, and dissemination of multimedia, intelligent tutoring systems and authoring tools".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> She was named as a <a href="/facts/Presidential_Innovation_Fellows/zNpcF1Xl">Presidential Innovation Fellow</a> in 2013.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Center for Knowledge Communication, archived from the original on 2020-08-08 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200808183433/https://centerforknowledgecommunication.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200808183433/https://centerforknowledgecommunication.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Elected AAAI Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/" target="_blank">https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>"Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly" target="_blank">https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/woolf_beverly</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>"Dr. Beverly Park Woolf", Presidential Innovation Fellows, US General Services Administration, retrieved 2024-06-22 <a href="https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/beverly-park-woolf/" target="_blank">https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/beverly-park-woolf/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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