| Olusola Adesope | |
| Birth Place: | Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Education: | M.Sc., 2005, PhD., 2010, Simon Fraser University |
| Thesis Title: | The cognitive effects of verbal redundancy and animated concept maps on learning. |
| Thesis Year: | 2010 |
| Spouse: | Tolu |
| Workplaces: | Washington State University |
Olusola O. Adesope is the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education and Professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.
Adesope was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria.[1] He first left Nigeria for the United States and worked as an IT Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then immigrated to Canada in 2003 with his wife Tolu and enrolled at Simon Fraser University (SFU).[2] At SFU, he earned his Master's degree in educational technology and his doctorate degree in educational psychology.[1] In 2011, he received the G.M. Dunlop Award for best doctoral thesis in educational psychology completed at a Canadian university.[3]
In 2010, Adesope joined the faculty of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.[4] He received the TICL Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award two years later from the American Educational Research Association.[5] He also conducted a study with researchers at Simon Fraser University which found that one-on-one computer-based tutoring was more effective than traditional teacher-based instruction when used on larger class sizes.[6]
In 2017, Adesope was appointed to a second term on the editorial board of the Review of Educational Research journal.[7] He was also promoted to the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education.[8] In this role, he collaborated with Kripa Sundar to research how “seductive details” could deter learning in the classroom.[9]