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DEMO DAY: Engaging Ed Tech

Apr 28, 2015 8:45 am7 views

Please join us for an open house demo session (with refreshments!) on Wednesday, May 6 from 2:00 - 3:30pm in 176 Education Building (IDEALL Lab) to see class projects from the spring semester of EPSY/INFO 590, Engaging and Interactive Educational Technologies (taught by Dr. H. Chad Lane). You will have the chance to use the prototypes, talk to the students, and learn more about this interdisciplinary course (which will be offered again in the fall). If you have any questions, please send them to hclane@illinois.edu. We hope to see you!
Denice Hood Named Interim CREA Director

Sep 20, 2023 9:45 am166 views
Department of Psychology Hosting Two Speakers from UW-Madison

Feb 10, 2020 4:00 pm69 views

The Psychology Department is hosting two language talks of interest on Friday, 2/14. Dr. Maryellen MacDonald and Dr. Mark Seidenberg from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be speaking at noon and at 1:30 p.m., respectively, in 819 Psychology.
“Dialogue with a Veteran Cuban Librarian: The Long View on Literacy, Literary Culture, Digitization and Revolution"

Oct 13, 2015 2:15 pm6 views

Cuban librarian Marta Terry González visit to campus may be of interest for C&I - Language and Literacy students. There are a couple of sections about literacy and digital age: Ex: On Wednesday, October 14, Terry will deliver a talk titled, “Dialogue with a Veteran Cuban Librarian: The Long View on Literacy, Literary Culture, Digitization and Revolution,” as part of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series. The event will be held at the International Studies Building, Room 101, at 3:00 p.m.

More information at:

https://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2015/09/cuban-librarian-marta-terry-gonzález-visit-campus
Discover Studying Abroad Adventures via Global Café

Sep 13, 2016 5:15 pm25 views

Enjoy a cup of coffee and learn about adventures in education from students who have studied abroad and international students on campus. Upcoming trips overseas include Indonesia, France, Australia, and South Africa.
Dixson Moderates Town Hall Meeting on Public Education with State of Louisiana Legislators

Mar 15, 2019 4:00 pm62 views

Adrienne Dixson, professor in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was recently asked to moderate a Town Hall meeting, sponsored by the Louisiana Public School Coalition, intended for teachers and community members to talk with several state legislators about the current status of public education. The meeting was held on March 14, and we followed up with Dixson afterward.
Doctoral Student Participates in Newberry Summer Institute

Aug 7, 2024 7:30 pm36 views

Doctoral candidate Christopher Getowicz participates in Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Summer Institute. The Institute brings students to the Newberry for a four-week intensive graduate course on an important theme in Indigenous Studies. As a selected participant he conducted the months long research symposium and conducted archival research for his dissertation on the history of education in postwar Minneapolis.
Doctoral student speaks at Women’s March at C-U

Jan 23, 2017 11:30 am21 views

Tanisha King-Taylor spoke at the Women’s March at C-U on Jan. 21. Taylor is pursuing a doctorate degree in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership.
Does Knowledge still Matter? Brownbag talk

Apr 26, 2017 9:45 am88 views

Time: Thursday, May 18, 10:00 am-noon

Place: Room 22, College of Education

Description: In a recent book, Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch argues for a knowledge-intensive curriculum. Adopting a traditional stance toward learning, but one buttressed by recent cognitive science research, he sees knowledge as the key to becoming culturally literate and as the basis for learning more. In contrast, Sugata Mitra, best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, is a leading proponent of minimally invasive education. He claims that children in the rural slums of India could explore complex subjects in the absence of adult supervision and create a world of self-promoted learning. Essentially, learning is what matters, and the effort to transmit knowledge is unnecessary and counter productive.

Questions: What is knowledge? What is its role in education? Is that role changing due to the "worldwide cloud" of information? Are their alternatives to these extreme positions, or is one more correct?
DPI Adds Professors Rodney Hopson and Robb Lindgren to Executive Committee

Apr 2, 2021 3:15 pm54 views

These Education faculty join a highly selective and distinguished group of scholars that will enable DPI to explore and develop solutions to long-term economic and social challenges throughout Illinois.
Dr. Adrienne Dixson Selected to Diversity Scholars Network

Aug 5, 2020 6:00 pm74 views

Adrienne Dixson, professor in EPOL, has been selected as a new scholar in the Diversity Scholars Network at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series

Jan 2, 2024 1:15 pm22 views

Please join us for a lecture given by Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, an award-winning distinguished professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University on Tuesday, February 27 at 12:15 in 22 Education.

Since 2000, she’s taught Asian American Studies focusing on Filipina/x/o (American) Studies, women studies, and courses focused on the praxis of Ethnic Studies pedagogy. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Educational Leadership. She has mentored hundreds of critical master’s and doctoral students, now teaching and working in schools, colleges, and community organizations nationwide. Before her position at SFSU, she did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Education. In 2001, she founded Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that provides Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, develops radical educators, and creates resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly marginalized people. Over the past two decades, she has worked with school districts, counties, and states to co-develop community rooted Ethnic Studies, Social Justice, and Filipino Language curricula. She has developed models of teacher development that are being used throughout California and beyond. She is also the co-founder and director of Community Responsive Education (CRE), a national firm that supports the development of responsive, equitable, and justice-driven educators. She is the author of four books of curriculum, and many articles focused on the applications of critical pedagogy, Ethnic Studies curriculum, Motherscholarship, and Pinayism.
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria: “Books Build Better Brains: Sharing Books as a Public Health Intervention”

Mar 30, 2021 10:00 am23 views

On Tuesday, April 6 at noon CST, Dr. Dipesh Navsaria will present "Books Build Better Brains: Sharing Books as a Public Health Intervention" a Zoom speaker event.
Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher featured as an expert in WalletHub's "2016's Best & Worst Community Colleges" article

Aug 23, 2016 11:00 am5 views

Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher answers questions about improving the cost and quality of education and training at community colleges:

Do you think President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community-college tuition free will increase enrollment and graduation rates?

What can policymakers do to improve the quality of education and training at community colleges and the career prospects of graduates?

Should community colleges focus more on preparing graduates for the workforce through career and technical education or on preparing graduates to move to a four-year college?

In evaluating the best and worst community college systems, what are the top five indicators?
Dr. Gianina Baker to be a Mentor for HLC’s Assessment Academy

Mar 2, 2020 3:00 pm37 views

Congratulations to Dr. Gianina Baker, Assistant Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and College of Education alumna, who will serve as a mentor for the Higher Learning Commission’s Assessment Academy.
Dr. Gloriana Gonzalez: Keynote Speaker at the PME-NA 41 Conference

Nov 14, 2019 1:30 pm12 views

Dr. Gonzalez will present the Saturday Plenary Session, “Empowering Teachers to Construct Problems for their Students,” for the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference.

The Realistic Mathematics Education theory establishes that problem contexts provide an entry point for mathematical understanding. Problems that are situated in relevant contexts can also support the development of students’ mathematical identity. At the same time, problems that are situated in contexts that appear to be too contrived may limit students’ opportunities to engage in mathematics and to develop their mathematical identity. In our dialogue, we will argue for opportunities for empowering teachers to design mathematics problems for and with their students. Teachers can identify relevant, authentic contexts for meaningful mathematics learning. We will provide examples from our own work regarding children’s mathematical knowledge bases, using students’ prior knowledge, social justice mathematics, and engaging students in problems situated in visual arts contexts as well as discuss the challenges and tensions in this work. We will discuss implications for mathematics teacher education, such as considerations about teachers’ mathematical and pedagogical knowledge, as well as teachers’ knowledge of their students and their school contexts, when embracing this approach.

For more information view the conference website.
Dr. Jennifer Randall | Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series

Oct 9, 2023 6:45 pm13 views

Please join the College of Education and the Dean's Office for a lecture given by Dr. Jennifer Randall on the subject of Publicly Engaged Research for Social Justice on Thursday, November 2 from 12:15 - 1:15 pm in 22 Education.
Dr. Karla Möller Named College's New Associate Dean for Graduate Programs

Aug 30, 2021 4:00 pm68 views

The Dean's Office is pleased to announce that Dr. Karla Möller will serve as the next Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the College of Education.
Dr. Kern Alexander named Distinguished Educational Research Lecturer

Jan 28, 2016 4:30 pm209 views

Excellence Professor Dr. Kern Alexander, a faculty member in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, will be the 2016 Distinguished Educational Research Lecturer at the College of Education at Kansas State University.
Dr. Kiel Christianson and Dr. Yoon Pak to Lead EPSY and EPOL Departments

Aug 20, 2019 1:15 pm304 views

Dr. Kiel Christianson has been appointed as Chair of the Educational Psychology department, and Dr. Yoon Pak has accepted the College's offer of Head of the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership (EPOL) department.
Dr. Natasha Jankowski and Dr. Gianina Baker Help Advance ‘Trends in Assessment’

Nov 4, 2019 11:30 am61 views

Two scholars from the College of Education and the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), Dr. Natasha Jankowski and Dr. Gianina Baker, have authored the opening chapter to a recently published book Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education.
Dr. Neil Anthony Lewis, Jr. Lecture and Reception

Mar 11, 2024 11:45 am10 views

Please join us for the upcoming Dean's Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Neil Anthony Lewis, Jr., on April 16, 2024 in 22 Education at 12:15 p.m. He is a behavioral and intervention scientist at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. A short reception will follow his talk.
Dr. Nicholas Burbules lectures on "The Educational Importance of Communicative Virtues"

Feb 10, 2016 3:15 pm117 views

Nicholas Burbules, a Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, presented a lecture titled “The Educational Importance of Communicative Virtues.”
Dr. Peter Kuchinke Inducted into 2018 International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame

Dec 5, 2018 9:00 am71 views

Kuchinke, professor in the Education Policy, Organization & Leadership department, was recently recognized with induction into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. Election to the Hall of Fame acknowledges individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of adult and continuing education. Inductees have provided a crucial nexus between resources and learners.
Dr. Rachel Roegman named 2018-19 Hardie Faculty Fellow

Jul 23, 2018 8:00 am73 views

Dr. Rachel Roegman, an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was selected as a 2018-2019 Hardie Faculty Fellow, which is supported by the Charles Dunn Hardie Trust Fund in the College of Education.
Dymond Receives Excellence in Instruction Award

Apr 1, 2025 11:45 am68 views

Stacy Dymond, professor in Special Education was honored by the University of Illinois as one of the top instructors on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
Early Childhood Education Program Exemplary in Learning Outcomes Assessment

Jan 8, 2020 12:45 pm54 views

Congratulations to the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, whose BS program in Early Childhood Education was identified as exemplary in the Learning Outcomes Assessment Update for AY 2018-2019. Fewer than 10 percent of all degree programs at the university received this recognition.
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher joins Graduate College

Aug 1, 2018 4:45 pm13 views

Professor Eboni Zamani-Gallaher will serve as the associate dean of the Graduate College starting Aug. 16. The scholar will continue to serve as the associate head of the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership and as director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership.

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Eboni Zamani-Gallaher on Why Community Colleges are More Important Now Than Ever

Jun 25, 2021 2:15 pm25 views

Prof. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher was recently featured in a podcast episode from the university's Center for Social and Behavioral Science about why community colleges are more important now than ever.
EdCampCU

Jan 15, 2016 12:00 pm60 views

EdCampCU is a place for teachers, pre-service teachers, administrators, community members, university students and faculty, as well as anyone else who is interested in talking and learning about education and education innovation.
Ed.D. Student Selected as 2024 USDA Fellow

Jul 17, 2024 9:00 am35 views

Joe Hinton was selected as a USDA E. Kika De La Garza Fellow this year.
Editorial by EPOL's Jessica Li in Human Resource Development International Journal

May 1, 2020 3:30 pm57 views

Associate professor Jessica Li, the editor of the journal Human Resource Development International, has authored an editorial that is relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ed.M. Graduate Receives ACE Award from 40 North

Dec 3, 2024 9:00 am7 views

Allison O'Hern, an English teacher at Rantoul Township High School, received the Teacher ACE award at the ACE Awards Celebration on Tuesday, December 3.
Ed.M. Student Named 2024 Gilman Scholarship Alumni Ambassador

Jan 22, 2025 10:45 am25 views

Logan Pender will serve as an official representative of the U.S. Department of State’s Gilman International Scholarship Program.
Ed Psych alumna selected as NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

May 5, 2016 2:45 pm97 views

Tzu-Jung Lin, Ph.D. ’12 Ed.Psych., has been selected as a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
Ed. Psych. AppLeS Student Capstone Project Presentations

Mar 13, 2017 2:15 pm5 views

The Department of Educational Psychology
AppLeS Student Capstone Project Presentations

Please join the Department of Educational Psychology to celebrate our first graduating class of AppLeS (Applied Learning Science) students as they finish up their final year in the AppLeS program and the Learning and Education Studies (LES) major. The students will present findings from their Capstone research projects and discuss their future plans. Please come and help us toast our students!

Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Noon – 1:30 PM
22 Education Building

Presenting their Capstone research projects are:

Destinee Johnson – "The Effects of Teacher Involvement on the Student Field Trip Experience"

Jeremy Davis – "Motivation for Learning a Second Language between Different College Departments”

Xiaoyi (Kellie) Huang – “Gesture and Word Learning”

Lunch will be served!
Ed. Psych. CSTL Brownbag Talk: “Explanation and Embodiment in Middle School Students’ Development of Explanatory Models of Molecular Ideas”

Mar 17, 2016 4:30 pm45 views

“Explanation and Embodiment in Middle School Students’ Development of Explanatory Models of Molecular Ideas”

Presented By:
Nitasha Mathayas and David Brown
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, March 29
12:30 - 2:00 PM
210A Education Building

With research showing that gesturing while speaking can facilitate learning, it is worth investigating how motion sensing technology can leverage gesturing about complex scientific phenomena. In project GRASP, we investigate the role that gestures play in constructing explanations about critical concepts in science. Specifically we work with middle school students to help us understand how moving their hands can help them explain things such as what causes air pressure and how does heat transfer in metals. We are also creating new computer simulations that can respond to students’ gestures and allow students to become part of the simulation!

For this brownbag session, we have decided to take a "workshop" approach, and give everyone the opportunity to interact with our simulation designs and share feedback. In this workshop, you will explore simulations depicting heat transfer and air pressure, and demonstrate learning opportunities from these simulations. We will also show you ways students have engaged with these simulations and discuss interactions that point to new ways of teaching science through simulations. We believe that this “hands in” approach to learning will provide new opportunities for students to learn complex ideas and construct new explanations.

GRASP is a NSF-funded collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Concord Consortium. (GestuRe Augmented Simulations for supporting exPlanations).
Ed Psych researchers receive NSF and IES grants

Aug 18, 2016 3:15 pm16 views

Kiel Christianson and Jennifer Cromley, both scholars in the Department of Educational Psychology, received grants from the National Science Foundation and Institute of Education Sciences, respectively.
EdPsych's Ananya Tiwari Recipient of 2019 Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award

Oct 7, 2019 2:15 pm427 views

Ananya Tiwari, a second-year PhD student in Educational Psychology, will receive this campus-level award at a banquet on November 20.
Ed Psych scholar Jennifer Cromley Recognized as Lead Contributor to Field

Oct 8, 2018 2:00 pm7 views

From 2009 to 2016, Educational Psychology scholar Jennifer C. Cromley was one of the top-producing female authors, editors, and editorial board members in her field, according to a paper in Educational Psychology Review.
Ed Psych scholar to receive Lindquist Award at 2017 AERA Meeting

Apr 19, 2017 4:00 pm35 views

Professor Hua-Hua Chang of the Department of Educational Psychology has been awarded the 2017 E.F. Lindquist Award in recognition of his outstanding applied and theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement.
Ed tech scholar receives 2017 Jan Hawkins Award by AERA

May 3, 2017 10:45 am15 views

Curriculum & Instruction scholar Robb Lindgren was the April 29 recipient of the 2017 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, AERA Division C. Lindgren said the award is special to him because of Jan Hawkins’ collaboration with his doctoral adviser prior to Hawkins’ death.
EDUC 102 James Scholar Poster Session

Dec 3, 2018 8:00 am5 views

Please come out and support College of Education first year students as they present their James Scholar research projects on Thursday, December 13. Presentations will be held in the South Lobby of the Education Building from 10:30–11:30am. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to faculty, students, and staff.
EDUC 102 Poster Session

Dec 3, 2015 3:30 pm79 views

10:30-11:30AM, Thursday, December 10 (Reading Day)

North Lobby and Room 192 Education Building

Interact with Instructor Adam Poetzel and James Scholar Freshmen as they present research on critical issues in education including:

Standardized Testing
Teach for America
Poverty and Achievement
Common Core Standards
Disability
Gender Gaps in STEM Fields
Creativity in Schools
Charter Schools
Children’s Literature Stereotypes

Support James Scholars!

Bagels, donuts, coffee and water will be provided.

View the event flier.
Educational Psychology Available Positions

Aug 28, 2017 3:45 pm8 views

We are hiring! We are currently searching for 3 colleagues in the Department of Educational Psychology at Illinois.

* Open Rank Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Methods (2 Positions) - Close Date: October 1, 2017

* Associate or Full Professor of Evaluation - Close Date: October 15, 2017

For more information, please go to www.education.illinois.edu/…/human-reso…/available-positions.

Please help us spread the word to anyone you think may be interested.
Educational Psychology's Ananya Tiwari Awarded AAUW International Fellowship

Jul 19, 2021 10:45 am97 views

Congratulations to Educational Psychology doctoral candidate Ananya Tiwari, who has been awarded a 2021-22 International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. The award aims to tackle barriers women face in education.
Educational Psychology scholar awarded IES grant

Jul 19, 2016 11:30 am21 views

Jennifer Cromley, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded a three-year grant worth $756,527 from the Institute of Education Sciences for her research project “Inference-Making and Reasoning: Refinement of an Assessment for Use in Gateway Biology Courses.”
Educational Technology Leadership Summit

Oct 1, 2015 2:45 pm86 views

On December 9 at the iHotel and Conference Center, the Executive Leadership Academy will hold The Educational Technology Leadership Summit. The Summit will bring state educational leaders to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in a unique professional learning opportunity on educational technology. The summit is designed for educational administrators and technology experts to share an experience designed to foster in-depth dialogue and provide collaborative and hands-on exposures to new technologies.

Presented by Illinois faculty members, various leaders, and Cisco Systems, the summit will motivate thinking and discussions about exploring and taking advantage of technology to help teachers teach, students learn, and administrators manage educational environments. The interactive format will provoke discussion, both practical and theoretical, and provide a glimpse of new technology systems offered by Cisco Systems. Presentations, discussions, activities, and hands-on demonstrations will address technology integration, instructional strategies to enhance STEM learning, the role of the Internet in education, mobility solutions, and the classroom of the future. During the one-day summit participants will:

Learn about research-based instructional strategies to enhance student learningConnect and network with school district leaders across central and southern IllinoisUnderstand strategies to manage technology integrationLearn strategies to assess organizational climate and readiness for technology transformationExplore cutting-edge educational technologies designed to enhance connectivity and student learning.

To regrister: go.illinois.edu/ELATechSummit15
Educational Theory Summer Institute

Aug 5, 2016 11:15 am17 views

Educational Theory Summer Institute (ETSI) 2016

Ecologizing Education: Philosophy, Place, and Possibility

Tuesday, August 16th

9:15 am – 5:15 pm

College of Education, Room 22

Free conference. Breakfast & lunch will be provided.

All those interested in the environmental & ecological elements of learning should attend!

Please plan to join us for the 7th Annual Educational Theory Summer Institute (ETSI). This year’s theme is Ecologizing Education: Philosophy, Place, and Possibility. Educational Theory has commissioned a team of leading international scholars to share fresh and substantive contributions on the theme.

This year's participants will be:

Deborah Bird Rose (University of New South Wales)

Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser University)

Ruth Irwin (University of Fiji)

Clarence Joldersma (Calvin College)

Huey-Li Li (University of Akron)

Gregory Lowan-Trudeau (University of Calgary)

Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas)

Andrew Stables (University of Roehampton)

For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Jessica Harless at jharles2@illinois.edu.
Education Alum, Doctoral Candidate Named Cook County Co-Teacher of the Year by ISBE

Feb 13, 2024 1:45 pm57 views

Dillin Randolph was one of four co-teachers of the year for Cook County. Randolph is an antiracist English teacher at Niles West High School in Niles Township High School District 219.

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