Yael Kali

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Yael Kali

Bio and Research Interests

Professor Yael Kali is Head of the Educational Technologies Program at the School of Learning Sciences and Educational Leadership at the University of Haifa, where she leads research on learning, pedagogical design, and educational innovation. She is a Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) since 2024. Her work focuses on large-scale school–university partnerships that foster mutual learning among students, teachers, education researchers, and scientists.

Over the years, Professor Kali has led major competitive research grants and established national research centers, including the Learning in a Networked Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE, 2013–2019) and the Taking Citizen Science to School (TCSS Center, since 2018). In 2023, TCSS was recognized in the Community Engagement Initiative of the Year category for the Asia-Pacific region by the Triple E Awards.

Her current research, supported by a national Breakthrough Research Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (since 2023), focuses on upscaling of educational innovation through networks of research-partnership partnerships. Together with her research team, she developed INSIGHTS – a living knowledge infrastructure that connects educators’ stories of practice with research-based pedagogical design principles. The platform uses AI-supported tools to promote reflection, documentation of practice, and the identification of principle–practice connections across teacher–scientist–researcher communities.

Before joining the University of Haifa, Professor Kali served on the faculty of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning & Cognition (CoCo) at the University of Sydney, and at the School of Education and the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder. She was a Principal Investigator in the TELS (Technology Enhanced Learning in Science) Center at UC Berkeley and led the development of the Design Principles Database (DPD) for computer-supported learning environments. From 2012 to 2020, she served as Associate Editor of Instructional Science.