Faculty and Staff

Emily Kuzneski Johnson

• Assistant Professor
• Email: ekj@ucf.edu
• Office Hours: Fridays 12:30pm - 3:00pm and by appointment
• Campus Location: CMB173O
• View personal website

Biography

Emily K. Johnson, Ph.D. conducts research focusing on educational technology, learning games, playful/gameful learning, simulations and learning, self-regulated learning, learner motivation, and self-efficacy. Prior to this position, she served as Postdoctoral Research Associate and Coordinator of the Games Research Lab at UCF where she collaborated with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of disciplines to plan, fund, conduct, and publish a wide range of games-related research. Emily earned her Ph.D. in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida in 2015 after teaching middle school Language Arts for eight years. She earned her M.A. in Reading Education from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL and her BA in English from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.

Research Interests

• educational technology
• leaning games
• playful/gameful learning
• self-regulated learning
• embodied cognition
• VR, MR, AR, XR, etc.
• simulations and learning
• computer assisted language learning 

Recent Research Activities

• ELLE the EndLess Learner
  • https://ekjphd.com/
    
  • http://endlesslearner.com/home
    
• BeadED Adventures
  • https://ekjphd.com/beadedadventures/
    
• Middle Passage VR Experience
  • https://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/mpe/
    
• And more!
  • https://ekjphd.com/
    

Courses

• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020
• Spring 2020
• Fall 2019