Picture Stories: Happy 40th Birthday FSU-ISD!

A group photo of about 2/3 of the attendees at our ISD@FSU Professional Development and Networking Conference - as well as 40th anniversary birthday celebration. What a great time! So satisfying to see it all unfold after so much work! And having Sabin Peters be the photographer of the event - to produce such an outstanding archival record - was a central piece to this.– Suzanne Ebbers

 With Dr. Roger Kaufman. ISD conference. 10 minutes of talking with him was a great mind-opener for me and Maedeh AghaRazi. - SeyedAhmad Rahimi

 This is THE dream moment!!!I never thought that I can have a picture with both Dr. Dick and Dr. Carey, who created the great Dick and Carey Model.... – Wei Qiang

 Had a great time with my wonderful advisor, his wife, and friends at IS 40 years Conference. - Tami Im

This is an incredible program that I'm part of. The conference was amazing and I hope everyone appreciated how special it was to be with some of the founders of the ISD program: Dick, Carey & Carey, Kaufman, Keller, Reiser, Wager, along with our outstanding alumni who continue to mentor and help graduates get out into the workforce.  – Lea Ann Gate

ISD@FSU40 Conference Kicked off Tonight with the IS Award Ceremony

Every spring the IS program has an award ceremony and recognizes some of our most high achieving students in different categories. To win one of these awards is a very special honor. This year, we held this special and lovely event at FSU alumni center (Wednesday evening, April 23), which also kicked off the ISD@FSU40 Alumni Conference (April 24 and 25). Welcome back alums, and congratulations to the awards finalists and winners!

Marvalene Hughes Research in Education Symposiums

Friday, April 18, 2014

8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Stone Building, Ground Floor Atrium

1114 West Call Street

Tallahassee, FL 32306

The Marvalene Hughes Research in Education Symposium is an annual event, organized by the Council on Research in Education (CORE), that allows for faculty and students to share current research projects.

Each year, faculty and students from Instructional Systems present and share their most current research projects at this academic event. Check out the 2014 Marvalene Hughes Research in Education Conference Program to find out more about our inspiring presentations and posters this year!

Dr. Shute Received Foundation Grants to Design and Test an Instructional Game

Congratulations! Dr. Valirie Shute, along with her project team, has recently received foundation grants to support their research endeavors.  Dr. Shute received a one year $111,000 grant from the GlassLab (a consortium of the Institute of Play + ETS + Electronic Arts) to design and test a 3-D adventure game for students in grades 6-7 to measure and support their problem solving skills using stealth assessment. 

Shute, V. J. (PI). Game-based assessment of problem solving skill. Funded via contract from the Institute of Play (GlassLab). One year award (1/15/14 - 12/31/14; # RF02405/034454), total award: $111,928.25.

Dr. Shute is known for her patented assessment method: Stealth Assessment. In the recent years, she has published various research articles and book/book chapters in examining learning behaviors in games. Click here to find out more about her current research endeavors. 

Instructional Systems 40th Reunion is Fast Approaching

The ISD@FSU conference/program birthday celebration, beginning the evening of April 23 and ending Friday, April 25, at 5pm, is fast approaching!

 Here is information that will help you prepare. If you have not yet purchased your conference tickets, click here.

Reception & Registration

Our Wednesday night reception will also be a time of checking in and picking up your conference materials. The reception itself is heavy hors d’oeuvres as well as a cash bar. It will be held at the Alumni Center on Tennessee Street where the FSU President’s House used to be. A map of our venues and our 3 provided lodging locations is attached.

ENewsletter: Important Information

Our current newsletter includes an overview of the conference program. Click here to see how we have put together an enviable two days of engaging professional development programming from the unique view of graduates of our program - over 70 presenters!

ENewsletter: Back Issues

Have you missed getting the eNewsletters and want to catch up on things? Click here to go to our newsletter archives to catch a look of what's been going on behind the scenes. (If you can’t access this link, click on the ‘current newsletter’ link and click on the top left corner the words ‘Past Issues’.

Hotel Information

If you are coming from out of town - we still have hotel rooms available to you - with availability depending on the hotel: 4/12 or 4/15. Click here to reserve your hotel room today.

 Two weeks and counting.  Can’t wait to see all of you there!

Two Summer Online Courses

Won't be around campus during summer? I know you will be online! And if you want to have a summer of boosting your general Web, social media, and data skills, you might be interested in the below two online courses taught by Dr. Vanessa Dennen:

EME6414 - Web 2.0 Based Learning & Performance

EME6356 - Learning & Web Analytics

EME6414 - Web 2.0 Based Learning & Performance

Description: 

This course focuses on how the widespread use of social networking/ media have influenced learning and human performance. Additionally, the course covers how instructional learning experiences and performance supports might be designed to take advantage of participatory culture.

Objectives:

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss how Web 2.0 technologies change the role of the instructional designer and performance technologist.
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of different Web 2.0 tools for promoting community, learning and performance.
• Identify the necessary factors for creating and sustaining online community.
• Use a variety of social media to communicate and educate.
• Develop a social media-based personal learning community.
• Design educational experiences using Web 2.0 technologies.
• Design performance support systems using Web 2.0 technologies.

EME6356 Learning & Web Analytics 

Description:  

This course addresses the collection and use of data for decision making and assessment in learning and human performance contexts. Students will get hands-on experience with small data sets and will learn how big data sets are collected and used.

Objectives:

• Discuss major concepts related to analytics and big data.
• Discuss the application of analytics to the fields of instructional systems design and performance technology.
• Apply the major concepts related to analytics to solving real world problems.
• Identify real world problems that might be addressed via analytics.
• Align problems with appropriate data sources, data collection methods, and analytic methods.
• Select the most appropriate analytic tool for a given context.
• Collect analytic data in a systematic manner.
• Analyze and interpret systematically collected analytic data.
• Develop context-appropriate reports that indicate how analytics address a particular problem.