Learning Technologies Ph.D. student Xinran Zhu, Hong Shui, and faculty Dr. Bodong Chen’s paper titled Designing Support for Productive Social Interaction and Knowledge Co-construction in Collaborative Annotation won the Best Student Paper Award at the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education. This paper was also nominated for the Best Research Paper Award category.
The Learning Technologies (LT) minor is now in its third year at the University of Minnesota drawing students from across different disciplines who want to become more digitally savvy leaders within their fields. Society and workplaces are becoming more technological and need innovators who can use technology to create and solve problems- the shift to remote learning in 2020 and 2021 intensified this need.
LT faculty member Bodong Chen and PhD student Basel Hussein recently presented a study in a workshop at the 11th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. Their paper, titled "Modelling Network Dynamics in Social Annotation," examines complex network dynamics in collaborative web annotation in an online classroom.
Yu-Hui Chang successfully defended her dissertation on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Congrats to the new PhD in Learning Technologies / Curriculum and Instruction!
Dr. Chang was advised by Cassie Scharber, and her dissertation was titled, “Examining Pre-service Teachers’ Technology Integration Perceptions and Practices”
View Yu-Hui’s dissertation abstract below.
Rukmini Avadhanam has been accepted to present at a virtual paper presentation at EDULEARN 2021 conference in July 2021 and also submit a full paper for the EDULEARN 2021 proceedings. Here is the abstract she sent to the conference.
Sarah Barksdale, a doctoral candidate in the Learning Technologies program, recently presented a paper she collaborated on with Bhaskar Upadhyay and Matthew Vernon, "Teacher Professional Development in Nepal: Mobile and Limited Technology Enhanced Pedagogy" at the International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (ICEMST) in April, 2021.
In early 2021, the University of Minnesota’s College of Design and Coursera launched a new UX Design MasterTrack Certificate program. Two Learning Technologies graduate students, Xinran Zhu and Jennifer Englund, served in instructional designer roles for the program and they shared their reflections on the collaborative online learning initiative.
Believe it or not, the best platform for rigorous online teacher training in a low-resource environment is an LMS made for kids. In March 2021 I presented at the TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) International conference about my experience using Google Classroom to lead a five-week course for teachers in training located throughout Mexico.
The 2019-2020 school year begins with three of our Learning Technologies (LT) students taking on leadership roles within our department, college, and university. Sarah Barksdale, a third year PhD student, begins her second year as president of the C&I Graduate Student Association (CIGSA).
Several Learning Technologies faculty and graduate students recently attended and participated in the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) international conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their exceptional leadership and scholarship in the field was represented in a wide variety of presentations, recognitions, and active involvement throughout the conference.