Alexis Peirce Caudell is lecturer in the Informatics Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her scholarly interests focus on questions about the role of technologies in children’s spatial imaginaries and lived experiences.
Alexis is committed to bringing the complex relationship between technology and larger social, political, legal, and economic systems to students’ experiences at lU. She currently teaches a range of courses including Social Informatics–an introduction to sociotechnical thinking, Computer and Information Ethics, Technological Nature–a course that explores the relationships between technology and nature, and she co-instructs the Informatics Capstone Course–a year long course sequence that challenges teams of students to design and build a data driven information system.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (TIP), and Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), are all frameworks that Alexis uses to shape her teaching. She was a Global Classroom Fellow in Spring 2023, and was named a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Justice Fellow (DEIJ) for IU's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Alexis earned her Ph.D. in Informatics from Indiana University, and also holds degrees in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia (M.Ed), Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.LIS), and Geography from the Aberystwyth University (BSc).
