New ISSA President Elections

Dear ISLT students,

As we are approaching the end of the Fall semester, it’s time to elect a new ISSA President. We are looking for nominations for/from individuals who will be willing to take the lead to serve our program. The presidency lasts for the duration of one year and some of the President's duties include:

• Lead the ISSA team in its service to the ISLT program; 
• Maintain the rules, procedures, and policies laid out in the ISSA Constitution; 
• Convene and host ISSA board meetings; 
• Maintain and document the practices associated with the office; 
• Represent ISSA at the annual Fall EPLS Orientation. 

If you are interested in this position, please respond by emailing me (ff11@my.fsu.edu) with a self-nomination. Students in the program may also nominate someone by emailing me the name of someone who they believe will be a good fit for the office of President. In case a nomination is made on someone's behalf, the nominee will be contacted to confirm interest in running for the position.

Note:

• The nomination period will remain open from today to Tuesday, November 24; 
• Voting will begin on Monday, November 30; 
• The voting period will be open for one week; 
• The new President will be announced on Tuesday, December 8. 

If you are interested in becoming a member of the ISSA board, please send me an email during the next three weeks. If you want more information, please, feel free to email and ask, I’ll be happy to answer all your inquiries.

Leading the ISSA team and serving the ISLT program has been for me a really rewarding experience. I’m sure that you’ll enjoy this opportunity as much as I did this past year.

Thanks for your support to ISSA!
Best,
Fabrizio

ISSA PD Series - Dr. Jeeheon Ryu: Designing and Analyzing Multimedia-based Experiments - Tomorrow 12PM

Dear ISLT family,

Please, mark your calendar with a new ISSA event. This Friday, November 13th, Dr. Jeeheon Ryu will give a workshop on “How to design and analyze multimedia based experiments”. The workshop will take place at 12:00 pm in Morgan Studio, Stone Building.

Dr. Jeeheon Ryu is an associate professor at the Chonnam National University and a visiting professor in ISLT at FSU. Here is the abstract of Dr. Ryu’s presentation:

The workshop is designed to guide doctoral students who want to apply experimental designs in the field of instructional design and technology. Particularly this workshop will cover multimedia based experiments. A variety of experimental designs will be presented with examples of result analysis. Step-wised guides will be provided from the beginning of experimental design to the report of experimental reports. 

We hope to see you there,

 The ISSA Team – Fabrizio, Jiyae, Kevin, Ray, Devin, Xinhao, Zhaihuan

Photos: FSU ISLT at 2015 AECT International Convention

Last week, AECT hosted its annual convention at Indianapolis, IN. This year, we had over 26 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 in Indianapolis!

• Concurrent research presentations, poster and roundtable presentations

See the whole list of ISLT friends' presentations at http://isfsu.blogspot.com/2015/09/islt-presentations-at-aect-annual_8.html

• PacifiCorp Competition

Congratulations! Logan Arrington and Zhichun (Lukas) Liu of team 1 and Nurul Jamiat and Zhaihuan Dai of team 2 reached the finals and won an award to go directly to ISLT's scholarship fund! And Logan and Zhichun (Lukas) won the 2015 PacifiCorp Competition!

• University Reception

• FSU ISLT Dinner 

 

Make a Donation and Support our Program & Students

The instructional systems and learning technologies program at Florida State University (ISLT@FSU) is seeking contributions to be used in direct support of our students. Thanks to the generous donations of several alumni and faculty, we are able to fund scholarships, assistantships, stipends, and conference travel for students.

Next month, 13 ISLT students are scheduled to present their work at the 2015 AECT conference in Indianapolis. In fact, four of these students will participate as finalists in the PacificCorp Design Competition. We estimate it will cost each student $750 - $1,000 to attend the AECT conference (airfare, hotel, conference registration). However, the ISLT program can cover a third of these expenses for each student.

Please consider making a donation by following the steps outlined below.

1. GO to https://one.fsu.edu/foundation/donate/give-online.

2. SELECT the link “More Designations” in the middle of the page.

3. TYPE F07631 in the field labeled Fund # and then hit search. The following search result should appear at the bottom of the page (you may have to scroll down to see it):
  Instructional Systems Student Support Fund
  F07631
  Education

4. SELECT the link “Instructional Systems Student Support Fund”

5. The correct fund should now appear on the donation form. Please be sure the designation is for the Instructional Systems Student Support Fund (F07631)

6. COMPLETE the rest of the fields in the form. Note that the Tribute Information is optional.

7. CLICK the NEXT button at the bottom of the page after you have completed the form and follow the directions provided.

Thanks for your continued support of our program and students! Feel free to forward this message to others in your network.

Jim Klein & Bob Reiser

ISSA event - Halloween Party, Oct 28th, 7PM

Dear ISLT family,

Please, mark your calendar with a new ISSA event – a scary one! Join us next Wednesday, October 28, at 7:00 pm for an evening of pumpkin carving at our fellow ISLT student Michelle's place – thanks Michelle for hosting the event!

Devin prepared a beautiful flyer for the event, see below. You can find this information also on the flyer:

• BYOB (bring your own beer/bottle) and a munchie, if you want. 
• We will be carving pumpkins and roasting the pumpkin seeds. Bring your own pumpkin to carve.
• Costumes enjoyed but not required. 
• Michelle's address is on the flyer. 
• If you need a ride, please, contact Fabrizio at ff11@my.fsu.edu. 

 Also, remember that next Friday, October 30, is the ISSA Research Mixer session. We'll meet at 12 pm at Morgan Studio and give each other feedback on our AECT presentations. If you want to present, please, contact Fabrizio at ff11@my.fsu.edu.

We hope to see you at the Halloween party and research mixer,

The ISSA Team – Fabrizio, Jiyae, Kevin, Ray, Devin, Xinhao, Zhaihuan

Going to AECT? Join us at the AECT Joint University Reception Nov 7, 6-7:30pm

For those of you who will be going to the AECT conference in Indianapolis on Nov 4-7, you are all invited to join colleagues, meet new faculty, alumni, and students, and learn about other programs in our field over food, drink, and appetizers at the AECT Joint University Reception. All IS faculty, students, staff, and alumni are welcomed and invited to join us at the reception!

2015 AECT International Convention 

• November 4-7, 2015 
• TIME: Friday Nov 6 from 6:00-7:30pm 
• LOCATION: Hyatt Regency, Cosmopolitan Ballroom, 3rd Level 

Please Volunteer! The FSU Instructional Systems program will be setting up a table/display (banner, table skirt, laptop and projector, brochures, example faculty publications) to showcase our program at the reception. We need your help to donate swag/gift items for our give-away raffle, transport materials to AECT (brochures, sample publications, IS banner, etc.), set up the table/display, talk to people about our program at the University reception, and to run the prize raffle. If you can help us, please go to the web page below to let us know how you would like to help.

To let us know if you are going to AECT, the title of the paper you will be presenting, and how you can help out at the evening reception table, please go to http://bit.ly/aecttable

Look forward to seeing everyone at AECT!
 --Allan

ISSA PD Series - Dr. John Keller: ARCS-V Model - Oct 9, 12pm

Dear ISLT family,

This Friday, October 9th, is the second of the ISSA professional development talks for this Fall. We are honored to host Dr. John Keller, Professor Emeritus at FSU. His talk, "Stimulating Learner Motivation: ARCS-V Model Characteristics, Applications, and Example", will take place at 12pm in room G152, Stone Building, ground floor.

If you cannot attend in person, you can watch the live broadcast of the session at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCPi1VnyOY 

Here is the abstract of Dr. Keller’s presentation:

Educational goals and objectives can range from a specific requirement to recall detailed information to the formulation of abstract conceptualizations resulting from one's own interpretation of the phenomena under study. The ability to create instruction with such wide ranging goals is facilitated by the use of the systematic instructional design process which has been formalized and validated repeatedly for many years. However, this process is not sufficient for creating optimal learning environments because learner motivation is an important component of the learning process and it is not adequately addressed in the traditional instructional system design process. This presentation will describe how both instructional and motivational design play a role in the creation of effective and appealing learning environments and will then focus on the model formerly known as ARCS (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction) which has recently been expanded to include the concept of volition; hence, ARCS-V model. Furthermore, it is important to realize that the motivation of teachers and designers is closely linked to student motivation and the motivational requirements of both teachers and students must be taken into consideration in this design process. This process is illustrated in a case example of motivational design.

We hope to see you there – or online,

The ISSA Team – Fabrizio, Jiyae, Kevin, Ray, Devin, Xinhao, Zhaihuan