Rate My Professor Kristen Rebmann

Kristen Radsliff Rebmann is a Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. She joined the faculty in 2007 following the completion of her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, where her dissertation examined design interventions to foster critical multiliteracies among children in community-based informal learning settings. Rebmann holds a Master of Library and Information Science (2000) and a Bachelor of Science in Biology (1997). Before pursuing her doctorate, she served as an academic librarian specializing in web design and instructional technology. Her research investigates the intersections of various literacies, technology, and human development, with current emphases on deploying emerging information technologies to enhance digital inclusion and resiliency, equity-focused data analytics in libraries, and learning design that advances excellence in distance education alongside justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Rebmann's extensive research interests encompass academic libraries, community information centers, critical perspectives on library and information science, data analytics and informatics, eLearning, information literacy and instruction, information policy, instructional design and technology, pedagogy in library and information science, public libraries, reading and literacy, research methods, scholarly communication, school media centers, science and technology literatures, serving diverse populations including the disabled, multicultural communities, and the aged, storytelling, technology integration, and young adult services.