2018 Alumni-Student Knowledge exchange (ASKe) Awards Banquet

Thursday, April 19th and Friday, April 20th, the Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at Florida State University (FSU) hosted the 2018 Alumni-Student Knowledge exchange (ASKe).

This is the event of the year that faculty, staff, students, and alumni all look forward to each year. It allows both Master's and Doctoral students to connect with alumni and learn from one another. This is one of the many features that makes the ISLT program so unique.

Thursday evening, students, alumni, and faculty met at the FSU Alumni Center for some hors d'oeuvres, drinks, socializing, and an awards ceremony.

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 

Finalists

Taehyeong Lim

Yasin Yalcin

Weinan Zhao

Winner

Yasin Yalcin

Liliana Muhlman Masoner Outstanding International Student Award 

Finalists

Taehyeong Lim

Jewoong Moon

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Winner

Taehyeong Lim

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Masters Student Award 

Finalists

Curt Fulwider

Jeffrey Phillips

Brandon Schumann

Rebecca Simms

Winner

Jeffrey Phillips

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Distance Student Award 

Finalists

Trisha Bennett

David Servello

Winner

Trisha Bennett

Gagne Briggs Outstanding Student Service Award 

Winner

Zhichun Liu

Ruby Diamond Future Professor Award 

Finalists

Hajeen Choi

Jewoong Moon

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Ginny Smith

Winners

SeyedAhmad Rahimi

Ginny Smith

FSU Moves Up In Best Graduate Schools

Exciting news for Florida State University's graduate programs!!! FSU's College of Education Graduate schools move up 6 spots from No. 46 to No. 35 nationally among public universities.

Click here to read the full article.

Dr. Fengfeng Ke Receives FSU's 2017 Developing Scholar Award!

Florida State University recognized the contributions and achievements of outstanding faculty members at the annual Faculty Awards Dinner.

Fengfeng Ke, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology & Learning Systems, was recognized with a Developing Scholar Award. Sponsored annually by the Council on Research and Creativity (CRC), this award recognizes mid-career associate professor-level faculty with a one-time allowance of $10,000 to support their research programs.

Additional honors were also given to other outstanding FSU faculty members during the dinner, including the Ralph Stair Prize for Innovation in Education, Distinguished Research Professor Award, Honors Thesis Mentor Award and the Distinguished Teacher Award.

For a full list of awardees, visit http://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2017/04/26/communication-professor-receives-fsus-2017-distinguished-teacher-award/.

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!