Other interests include research on and through design, systems for supporting social capital and distributed intelligence, the role of informatics and digital libraries in education, and science and engineering education. Hoadley previously chaired the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Education in Science and Technology (now SIG: Learning Sciences), and served as the co-founder and first president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. He previously taught at Stanford University, Mills College, Penn State University, and New York University in education, computer science, and information sciences, and has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and presentations.