Dr. Dragana Martinovic
Faculty of Education


Dr. Dragana Martinovic is an Associate Professor and a Research Leadership Chair. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Applications in Education from the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as, M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence and B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

In her research, Dragana explores how humans work, learn, and develop with technologies. In order to conceptualize interdisciplinary theories, Dragana publishes in the areas of mathematics education, computer applications in education, privacy on the Internet, obstacles and enhancers to electronic systems (e.g., in health, commerce, and education), as well as social and cognitive effects of computer technology among youth. In addition, Dragana participates in the development and evaluation of the Information Systems Security and Computer Science post-secondary curricula.

Since 2009, Dragana is co-chairing the MathEd Forum of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. She is a Co-Editor of the peer reviewed online The Fields Mathematics Education Journal and of a Springer book series titled, Mathematics Education in the Digital Era.



Since 2011, Dragana is a member of a newly organized Fields Cognitive Science Network for the Empirical and Interdisciplinary Study of the Nature of Mathematics. Co-directors of this international and interdisciplinary network of researchers are Marcel Danesi (Anthropology, University of Toronto) and Rafael Núñez (Cognitive Science, UC San Diego).

Dragana is also the Chair of the GeoGebra Institute of Canada / Institut de GeoGebra du Canada (GIC-IGC). This national institute supports training, development and research in relation to open-access mathematics software GeoGebra. The Institute is accredited by the International GeoGebra Institute.

She is a member of the SURE Steering Committee, a collaborative initiative designed to bridge research and practice in the London region of the Ontario Ministry of Education. SURE is funded through the London Region Managing Information for Student Achievement (MISA) Professional Network Centre (PNC) and is led by a Steering Committee made up of representatives from the sixteen district school boards and five provincially - funded universities with faculties of education.

Dragana has chaired and co-chaired several international conferences (e.g., International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, International Conference on Information Society). In addition, she has organized the Education Session for the Canadian Mathematics Society Winter 2009 Meeting. As a Co-Chair, and the principal author of the grant application, Dragana successfully brought to closure the First North American conference on GeoGebra, GeoGebra-NA 2010 (Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, awarded with the NSF grant). In 2011, she co-chaired the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education (OAME/AOEM) Annual Conference at University of Windsor in 2011 (a truly collaborative endeavour) and the Second North-American GeoGebra conference, GeoGebra-NA2011, held at OISE, in Toronto, on June 17-18, 2011. GeoGebra-NA2011 was supported by OISE, University of Toronto, and the Fields Institute grant of which Dragana was a PI.

Since 2006, together with Frank DiPietro from the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, Dragana is co-chairing the Windsor-Essex Mathematics Olympiad (WEMO) for Grades 7-8. This annual event is hosted by the Faculty of Education of the University of Windsor and sustained by a team of dedicated grade teachers, math educators, mathematicians and teacher candidates from Dragana's classes. Over the years, the WEMO received support from the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Canadian Mathematics Society, Windsor Essex Catholic DSB and Greater Essex County DSB.

Dragana is working on national and international research projects. Her current and recent projects include: