Jillianne
Code
Scholar and speaker on learner agency, postdigital education, and patient empowerment.
- 2500+
- Citations
- 60+
- Publications
- 4
- Active grants
- CRC
- Tier II · 2025–2030
Research Program
01
Postdigital Learner Agency
This research explores how learner agency can be preserved, understood, and supported in an age of AI, algorithmic systems, and immersive digital environments.
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Patient Agency
This research explores how patients develop, exercise, and sustain agency across cardiovascular care, advancing new approaches to patient engagement, self-management, and participation in research and everyday health decision-making.
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Inquiry in Digital Education and AI
This research examines how learners and educators navigate AI mediated, immersive, and hybrid educational environments, with a focus on inquiry, critical engagement, and the design of learning experiences that support human agency in digital contexts.
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My Broken
Heart
A documentary exploring the unknown, unexpected, and sometimes dire consequences of heart transplantation — and the patient voices that rarely make it into clinical conversations.
Jillianne's lived experience as a heart transplant recipient anchors her research in the realities of patient agency.
Learn moreLatest
- 2026-04publication
Expressions of Learner Agency in Virtual Inquiry – Computers & Education
- 2025-11publication
The Entangled Learner – Postdigital Science and Education
- 2025-10award
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Learner Agency (2025–2030)
- 2025-09publication
Patient Agency in Action – Patient Education and Counceling
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