Classroom-based Space Flight Simulator Best in Show Award by ISLT Doctoral Student

Florida State University Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) doctoral student, Peter Carafano, won Best in Show for Innovation for his space flight simulator at DIGITECH for his Classroom-based Space Flight Simulator.

 

Peter Carafano

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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

Article Published by Dr. Klein

Applying the First Principles of Instruction in a short-term, high volume, rapid production of online professional development modules

Journal: Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Citation: Klein, J.D. & Mendenhall, A. J Comput High Educ (2018) 30: 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9166-9

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Article Published by Dr. Dennen and Jiyae Bong

Cross-cultural Dialogues in an Open Online Course: Navigating National and Organizational Cultural Differences

Journal: TechTrends

Citation: Dennen, V.P. & Bong, J. TechTrends (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-018-0276-7

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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.

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A Day in the life of ISLT Student, Ray

Whether you are a faculty member, a new student, or a prospective student, you may be curious what a typical day is like in the life of a full-time PhD student in the Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at Florida State University (FSU). 

Ray offered to allow us to follow her around campus one day and capture a typical day in her life on campus. Ray moved here from China and started her doctoral program in the Fall of 2013. She hopes to complete her doctoral studies and dissertation by the Spring of 2019 and hopes she can stay in the US and become a professor at a University or Community College. 

Ray just successfully defended her prospectus. The prospectus is the first three chapters of the dissertation which include the introduction, the literature review, and the methods section. Now she needs to collect the data, analyze the data, then write the result, discussion, and conclusion sections, as well as defend her dissertation.  

Each day, Ray wakes up and heads into her office area on campus to work on her dissertation. She always starts off the morning with breakfast and tea. 

You will usually find Ray reading articles found online for her dissertation or hardback cover books for classes she is currently taking.

After some time, Ray usually has the urge to get out and take a walk. She stresses the importance of  taking time away from her studies to stop and smell the roses 

She gathered some great ideas to continue working on her dissertation while thinking on her walk, so she headed back to the Stone Building, where the College of Education and the Instructional Systems Technology program is located, to continue typing away for a few hours. 

For lunch she went to the Seminole Cafe right around the corner from her building. 

 

She then decided to keep reading her book for a class she had the next day. She walked around outdoors until she found a nice bench in the sun to sit down and continue her book. 

 

After lunch and catching some rays, she went back to her desk again to continue working on her dissertation. 

She came to a road block and needed to step outside and listen to some music. Her favorite song is "Losing My Mind" by Charlie Puth, hence what she was listening to at the time of this picture.

 

As she got on the elevator to head back to her desk, she noticed a flyer in the elevator advertisting for an event the next weekend. She explains that there are always events going on around campus and lots of things to keep you active if you would like. 

 

After several more hours of working at her desk, it was time to get out again. She decided to sit outside in the sun for a few minutes to make a phone call then she headed to the gym for a swim where she ended her day on campus. 

2018 ASKe Agenda

Below is the agenda for the 2018 Alumni Student Knowledge Exchange (ASKe) conference. The event will be held in the Stone Building at Florida State University at the College of Education starting Thursday evening 4/19/18 and running throughout the day Friday 4/20/18.

Hope to see you there!

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