Congratulations to all summer 2015 ISLT graduates!

ISLT Faculty Conference Travels, Summer 2015

Dr. Shute to Present at Conference in Australia

Dr. Valerie Shute will share her research on Stealth assessment in video games at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) 2015 Research Conference. The annual meeting theme will be "Learning assessments: Designing the future" and it will take place on August 16-18 in Melbourne, Australia.

In the presentation, she will explore how games can use stealth assessment to measure and support the learning of critical 21st century competencies. Also, she will share some examples within the context of a game called Physics Playground that she designed and developed with her team.

*Dr. Shute is the Mack and Effle Campbell Tyner Endowed professor in Education in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (ISLT). In April, she received a 2015 Graduate Student Mentor Award.

Dr. Dennen Presented at Conference in China

Dr. Vanessa Dennen was invited as one of four featured speakers at the AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology) - LKAOE (Learning and Knowledge Analytics in Open Education) 2015 Summer International Research Symposium. It took place on June 16- 19 in Shanghai, China.

In her presentation, she highlighted some of the ways that analytics can be used to help better understand the interactions that take place among learners in an online setting. Also, she discussed uses ranging from modeling interactions to formative and summative assessments.

She also provided two preconference workshops. The topics were (1) Social Media MOOCs for Professional Development and (2) Badges, Credentials, and Other forms of assessment.

Dr. Ke Presented at Conference in Sweden

Dr. Fengfeng Ke shared her study, 'Immersive Simulation on Collaborative Learning about a Complex Dynamic Systems' at the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. The annual meeting theme was "Exploring the material conditions of learning: Opportunities and challenges for CSCL." And it took place on June 7-11 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

She examined the effect of Astronaut Challenge, an immersive, flight-simulation-based learning program, on the collaborative learning process and science knowledge development of ninth grade students.

The conference proceedings (volume 1 & volume 2) are available at their website. 

iThenticate Plagiarism Detection Software Now Available

The Office of Research announced that faculty, staff, and students now have access to an additional plagiarism detection tool called iThenticate.
iThenticate is an intellectual property verification tool designed to screen more scholarly works, such as dissertations, research proposals, journal articles, and conference presentations.
For more information about iThenticate and request an iThenticate account, please visit here.
And to learn more about avoiding plagiarism, please visit the Office of Research Compliance Program’s updated website on Research Misconduct.

Submit your news or accomplishments to the ISLT newsletter, today!

Reminder!

Dr. Shute and I are currently working on putting together this year's ISLT newsletter, which will be sent out sometime this Fall. There are two sections of this newsletter that we need your help with though.
The Alumni News & Accomplishments and Student News & Accomplishments sections highlight what our alumni and students have accomplished in the past year.

If you have any news or accomplishments you would like to share with our ISLT community (e.g., awards, publications, presentations, promotions, pictures), please send them to me (grm13@my.fsu.edu) by August 3 at the latest (earlier is better).

Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

Thanks
Greg Moore

Reminder: ISSA Documentary Evening, This Thursday!

Dear. ISLT students - and faculty, staff, and alumni.

Join ISSA this Thursday, July 9th, at 6 pm at Morgan Studio, for a Movie / Documentary Evening. This is the first of a series of screenings that we'd like to organize for the following terms. We'll watch "Waiting for Superman" (2010), a documentary that investigates the public school system in the United States. A discussion will follow the screening.



We hope to see you there,

The ISSA team – Fabrizio, Jiyae, Kevin, Zhongrui, Xinhao, Zhaihuan, Hoora, Devin

Reminder: ISSA Dinner Social - Summer Edition. Today!

Dear ISLT students – and faculty, staff, and alumni,

Join the ISSA team and your fellow ISLT friends for a fun and yummy dinner this Thursday, June 11, at 6 pm at Andrew's Downtown, Tallahassee. ISSA socials and dinners are the best way to get to know other students in our program. Significant others are welcome!

• Time: Thursday, June 11, at 6pm 
• Place: Andrew's Downtown - website: http://andrewsdowntown.com 
• Please, confirm your participation at: https://www.facebook.com/events/891743920899027/
• If you need a ride, please, email Fabrizio (ff11@my.fsu.edu). We'll pick you up! 

 See you there, The ISSA Team

Call for Proposals: AERA 2016

The 2016 AERA (American Educational Research Association) conference will be held in Washington, DC from 8 to 12 April, 2016. All participants will have a great opportunity to share their research and other academic experiences with their peers and those emerging in the education field. This year's annual meeting theme is "Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies."
Now is the time to review the Call for Submissions and prepare your manuscripts to join this academic event!

• Proposal Deadlines: June 1 - July 22, 2015
• Visit here to see more details.