FSU ISLT Alumni Get-Together - Dec 5, Tallahassee

As an alumnus or current grad student of Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at FSU, you are invited to the 2nd get-together in Tallahassee! See below announcement from Alumni Relation Committee. We hope you join us!

Tallahassee ISLT Alumni Get-Together

• When: Friday December 5, 2014, 5:30 PM
• Where: BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (1749 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, FL32301)
• RSVP by email to Anchalee Ngampornchai (anchalee23@yahoo.com) by Monday, Nov 24th

We are FSU! #FSUnited

We recognized the strength of unity in the Florida State University community after the library incident. Last Thursday, FSU students, faculty, alumni, and staff gathered around the Integration Statue on the FSU main campus and united with candles held. The event concluded with the FSU Marching Chiefs playing the "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold." FSU students, faculty, alumni, and staff sang together for the victims.

http://fsuednews.com/2014/11/21/florida-state-regains-unconquered-spirit-after-recent-tragedy/

Positive thoughts and best wishes were reached out to everyone there. And it was certainly extended to all those affected by the incident. We kept extending the sentiments to everyone through diverse FSU communication tools. We felt again we always have a family that supports us here, at Florida State.  We are returning to our routines with the strong strength of FSU unity. 

The Counseling Center at the Askew Student Life Building provides counseling and further supports for FSU students, faculty, and staff affected by the events.Should anyone need such services, please contact the center (850-644-2003).

Congratulations! Dr. Darabi to Play a Major Instructional Design Role in a Multi-Million Dollar Project

Congratulations! Dr. Aubteen Darabi to Play a Major Instructional Design Role in a Multi-Million Dollar Project Aimed at Realigning Philippine’s Universities’ Engineering Curricula with the Needs of Industry and Business 

Research Triangle International was the recipient of a $32 million grant from the US Agency for International Development aimed at Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation Development (STRIDE). Among the collaborating universities for securing this grant, the FSU’s Learning System Institutes (LSI) received $1.4 million of funding to improve the Philippines’ workforce development initiatives and realign their universities’ engineering curricula to be more responsive to the industry needs.

As the Co-PI of this project Dr. Darabi is leading the project’s instructional design efforts, the results of which will feed into the establishment of a Professional Science Master’s Degree. Dr. Jeff Milligan of LSI, the PI of the project, and other faculty from FSU are leading the workforce development efforts and establishment of career centers across Philippines.

This fall Dr. Darabi visited four of the major universities in manila and introduced the engineering deans, chairs, and teaching faculty to the concepts and principles of Human Performance Technology (HPT) and the Instructional Systems and presented a framework for this initiative. Three of the universities agreed to participate in the project: De La Salle University, Technological Institute of the Philippines, and Ateneo de Manila University.

Between now and his next visit in March of 2016, Dr. Darabi will be working with the faculty and administrators of the participating universities to identify and analyze programs’ courses, competencies, learning and performance objectives, instructional strategies and sequence of the course content as currently offered. In March 2015, Darabi will revisit the programs and conducts several workshops leading the teaching faculty and the industry experts to review the results of this analysis for identified programs. In these workshops, considering the desired marketable qualifications of programs’ graduates, the faculty/industry teams will revise the curricula according to requirements of the job market and industry needs.

An evaluation and assessment workshop has been tentatively scheduled for August of 2015 to assess the universities implementation of the revised curricula and its progress.

FSU ISLT at the 2014 AECT International Convention

Last week, AECT hosted its annual convention at Jacksonville, FL. This year, we had over 30 faculty, staff, and student presenters in the 5-day program with concurrent research presentations, poster and roundtable presentations, the PacifiCorp competition, and so on. Here are some photos of us!

• Concurrent research presentations, poster and roundtable presentations

See the whole list of ISLT friends' presentations at http://isfsu.blogspot.com/2014/07/is-presentations-at-aect-annual.html

• Featured Research

Congratulations! Shuang Hao, Mengyao Cui, and Dr. Vanessa Dennen's research was selected as one of the featured research.

(Titled, "Analysis of mobile learning as an innovation in higher education - A comparative study of three countries," Shuang Hao, Mengyao Cui, and Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University; Yalin Kilic Turel, Firat University; and Li Mei, Hebei Finance University)

• Breakfast with Champions

With Dr. Marcy P. Driscoll, Dr. James Klein, and Dr. Robert Reiser.
This event brought the top professionals in the field together to interact with the attendees at an AECT-sponsored breakfast. We all enjoyed the conversations at the tables.  

• PacifiCorp Competition

Congratulations! Two ISLT PhD students, Alison Moore and Jiyae Bong, won the PacifiCorp Design and Development Award.

• Panel Discussion: D&D - The future of instructional design programs

With Dr. M. David Merrill and Dr. Vanessa Dennen.
The panel discussion discussed the idea of instructional design and technology program reform.

• Presidential Session - Federal Grant Opportunities for Educational Technology Research

Dr. Robert Reiser and Dr. Fengfeng Ke were invited to the presidential session and talked about federal grant opportunities for educational technology with Alison Moore, Terra Bradley, Weinan Zhao.

• NSF/AECT Early Career Symposium

Dr. Ke was invited to the symposium for the career mentoring and networking.

• GSA-Showcase for Emerging Tech Tools

Fabrizio Fornara shared his knowledge and experience on how the latest tools are being used or novel ways of using old tools with the hope of generating research ideas.

• Panel Discussion: ICEM-Learning Analytics. What is that? Why should  I care?

Lubin Wang presented at this panel discussion and share her knowledge on Learning Analytics.

• University Reception

FSU Students win the Pacifcorp Competition Again!

Two ISLT PhD students, Alison Moore and Jiyae Bong, won the Pacificorp Design and Development Award at the 2014 AECT Conference.

Congratulations, Alison and Jiyae, on a job well done! We're very proud of you!