If you’re in the academic job market, now’s the time! Fall is when most faculty job postings become available, offering a variety of Assistant Professor positions in Learning Technologies, Educational Technology, and related fields. These opportunities provide valuable insights into what hiring committees are looking for, including required materials, preferred qualifications, and the latest trends in academic hiring.
The Learning Technologies graduate and undergraduate programs prepare people to design, develop, and evaluate educational technology tools and processes to improve teaching and learning in a variety of contexts, including K-12, higher education, and informal contexts like museums and after-school programs.
Congratulations to Dr. Hong Shui!
In June 2024, Dr. Hong Shui successfully defended her dissertation titled, “Tackling the Alignment Problem: Design a Learning Analytics Dashboard to Support Teacher Inquiry.” Family members, colleagues, faculty, and both current and former classmates joined together virtually as she presented her dissertation research.
Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Clements!
In May 2024, Dr. Catherine (Kate) Clements successfully defended a dissertation titled, “Virtual Exchanges as an Emancipatory Practice.” Family members, colleagues, faculty, and both current and former classmates joined together virtually to support Kate’s research presentation.
Learning Technologies PhD candidate Jennifer Englund was involved in a collaborative effort to understand student use, awareness, and concerns of Generative Artificial Intelligence at the University of Minnesota. The effort was led by two groups: Academic Technology Support Services and Usability Services.
LT faculty member, Dr. Angel Pazurek, and Ph.D. candidate, Robert Kreml, were invited as international guest speakers in the graduate course, Qualitative Methods on Educational Research, in the Institute for Educational Development at The Aga Khan University (AKU-IED) in Karachi, Pakistan.
LT PhD Candidate Catherine Clements presented her multiple works at TESOL International Convention. TESOL International Convention is the largest professional development event in the TESOL field. The Convention offers professional development opportunities to English language educators at all levels from around the world.
Dr. Rukmini M Avadhanam successfully defended her dissertation titled, “Meeting Students in the Margins: Exploring the Use of Social Annotation by Undergraduate Online Instructors" via Zoom on October 24, 2023. Her families, colleagues, faculties, and both current and former classmates joined together virtually as she presented her disseration research.
Dr. Sarah Barksdale successfully defended her dissertation titled, “'It’s Hard Work’ — K-12 Teachers’ Enacted Curriculum of Computational Thinking and Computer Science Integration." Dr. Barksdale has been a valued member of the LT community since beginning her doctoral studies, and she presented her dissertation research to a large crowd of virtual attendees via Zoom on May 4, 2023.
Chase Fingerson, a senior enrolled in LT’s undergraduate course CI4311W Technology and Ethics in Society with Dr. Jolie Kennedy, recently had an opinion piece published in The Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota’s campus newspaper.