
Roger Azevedo
Professor
- Office: Partnership II, Room 232
- Email: roger.azevedo@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-882-1300
- Google Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Azevedo is a professor in the School of Modeling Simulation and Training. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Central Florida and is the lead scientist for the Learning Sciences Faculty Cluster Initiative. He received his PhD in educational psychology from McGill University and completed his postdoctoral training in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research area includes examining the role of cognitive, metacognitive, affective, and motivational self-regulatory processes during learning with advanced learning technologies (e.g., intelligent tutoring systems, hypermedia, multimedia, simulations, serious games, immersive virtual learning environments). More specifically, his overarching research goal is to understand the complex interactions between humans and intelligent learning systems by using interdisciplinary methods to measure cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, motivational, and social processes and their impact on learning, performance, and transfer. To accomplish this goal, he conducts laboratory, classroom, and in-situ (e.g., medical simulator) studies and collects multi-channel data to develop models of human-computer interaction; examines the nature of temporally unfolding self- and other-regulatory processes (e.g., human-human and human-artificial agents); and designs intelligent learning and training systems to detect, track, model, and foster learners, teachers, and trainers’ self-regulatory processes.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, McGill University
- M.A. in Educational Technology, Concordia University
- B.A. in Psychology, Concordia University
RESEARCH
- Advanced learning and training technologies
- Human digital twins
- Human-machine AI collaboration
- Intelligent environments for education and
- Training across humans and contexts
- Metacognition and self-regulated learning
- Multimodal process data in human-machine interactions
PUBLICATIONS
- Azevedo, R., Dever, D., & Wiedbusch, M. (in press). Artificial Intelligence in personalized learning and engineering education: Multimodal approaches to individualization and adaptation. In W. Karwowski, V. Duffy, & G. Salvendy (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Wiley.
- Azevedo, R., Hooshyar, D., Fan, Y., Wiedbusch, M., & Dever, D. (in press). Multimodal learning analytics for self-regulated learning across diverse learning technologies: Analysis, prediction, generative AI, and Explainable AI. In K. Sharma, N. McIntyre, & T. Tormanen (Eds.), Handbook of online learning measures. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).
- Azevedo, R., Wiedbusch, M., & Dever, D. (in press). Metacognitive processes of learning in immersive virtual reality. In J. Plass, R. Mayer, & G. Makransky (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of learning in virtual reality. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
- Azevedo, R., Amon, M.J., Anderson, M., Mondesire, S., Guido-Sanz, F., Sottilare, R., & Wiedbusch, M. (2024). Human digital twins to support nurse practitioners’ clinical decision-making using multimodal data: A theoretical, methodological, and analytical framework. In S. Sabri, K. Alexandridis, & N. Lee (Eds.), Digital twin: Fundamentals and applications (pp. 149-172). Springer/Nature.
- Azevedo, R., Bouchet, F., Harley, J., Taub, M., Trevors, G., Cloude, E., Dever, D., Wiedbusch, M., Wortha, F., & Cerezo, R. (2022). Lessons learned and future directions of MetaTutor: Leveraging multichannel data to scaffold self-regulated learning with an intelligent tutoring system. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:813632. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.813632
- Azevedo, R., & Dever, D. (2022). Metacognition in multimedia learning. In R. E. Mayer & L. Fiorella (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of multimedia (3rd ed., pp. 132-141). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
- Azevedo, R., & Wiedbusch, M. (2023). Theories of metacognition and pedagogy applied in AIED systems. In du Boulay (Ed.), Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 141-173). The Netherlands: Springer.
- Cloude, E., Dever, D., Hahs-Vaughn, D., Emerson, A., Azevedo, R., & Lester, J. (2022). Affective dynamics and cognition during game-based learning. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 13, 1705-1717.
- Dever, D., Sonnenfeld, N., Wiedbusch, M., Schmorrow, S. G., Amon, M. J., Azevedo, R. (2023). A complex systems approach to analyzing pedagogical agents’ scaffolding of self‑regulated learning within an intelligent tutoring system. Metacognition & Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09346-x
- Kovanovic, V., Azevedo, R., Gibson, D., & Ifenthaler, D. (Eds.) (2023). Unobtrusive observations of learning in digital environments: Examining behaviors, cognition, emotion, metacognition, and social processes using learning analytics. Springer.
- Molenaar, I., de Mooij, S., Azevedo, R., Bannert, M., Järvelä, S., & Gasevic, D. (2023). Measuring self-regulated learning and the role of AI: Five years of research using multimodal multichannel; data. Computers in Human Behavior, 139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107540
- Wiedbusch, M., Lester, J. & Azevedo, R. A multi-level growth modeling approach to measuring learner attention with metacognitive pedagogical agents. Metacognition & Learning 18, 465–494 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09336-z
- 2025 Fellow, American Educational Research Association
- 2025 Pegasus Professor, University of Central Florida
- 2021 UCF Researchers in Top 2% of Their Field (see journal PLOS Biology)
- 2018 Barry J. Zimmerman Award for Outstanding Contributions to the fields of Studying and Self-Regulated Learning Research, from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Studying and Self-Regulated Learning (SSRL) Special Interest Group (SIG)
- 2017 Outstanding International Research Collaboration Award sponsored by the Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- 2017 Best Short Paper Award, 7th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2017), Vancouver, Canada