blog navigation

College of Education Announcements

blog posts

  • Playing EnergIze at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis

    Illinois Education Researchers at the Indy Children’s Museum

    Last week a team of science education and learning technologies researchers led by Dr. Robb Lindgren took their new game prototype called “eneregIze” to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. This research project on how body movement with interactive technologies can help understanding basic ideas in science, such as energy, is funded by the National Science Foundation.

    "This has been a an excellent opportunity for the College of Education to build connections with the Indy Children's Museum, one of the premier children's museum in the country," said Robb  Lindgren, assistant professor in Curriculum & Instruction. "It is clear that we share an interest in creating new technology-based learning experiences that engage students in STEM."

    The research team is asking groups of museum visitors ages 8 to 11 their ideas about energy and energy transformation before and after they play the game. In the game the children use their bodies to store and use energy in order to get a robot trapped in a factory to safety. The game was designed and developed entirely by students and faculty at Illinois. Other faculty leads on the project are Guy Garnett in Informatics and H. Chad Lane in Educational Psychology.

    Doctoral student Christina Silliman said the support of the children, their parents, and the museum staff members has been outstanding.

    "We are finding that kids have imaginative and intuitive ideas about energy and are excited to express their ideas through the interview and the game itself," she said.

  • Illinois Early Learning Project adds podcasts

    The Illinois Early Learning Project  has added podcasts to its website. The newest podcast features an interview with Dr. Micki Ostrosky, head of the Department of Special Education, titled Supporting Young Children's Friendships

  • Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate Symposium

    Diversity Realized at Illinois through Visioning Excellence (DRIVE) is holding the inaugural Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate Symposium in Grainger Engineering Library on March 31.

  • Illinois Center for Transition and Work to Host 2024 Events & Highlighting New School-to-Work Transition Guide

    The Illinois Center for Transition and Work (ICTW) will be hosting regional workshops in February for transition educators and staff who want to increase their knowledge on how to plan instruction across a range of work-based learning settings. In addition, ICTW will hold its annual symposium at the I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center on April 25-26.

  • Melvin Burch-Bynum

    Illinois Alum named Outstanding Secondary New Teacher

    Melvin Burch-Bynum, a 2004 College of Education Alumni, began his teaching career after retiring from the Marine Corps. He is the Senior Marine Instructor in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia.

  • Illinois alumna awarded for building support between teachers and students

    Carrie McMenamin, who minored in secondary education at the College of Education, was a co-recipient of this year’s Cupcake Award from the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation thanks to her work with students outside of the classroom.

  • Illinois Abroad Day

    Do You Want to Study Abroad?

    THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION HAS OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU!

    September 1st

    2 to 5 p.m.

    College of Education North Lobby

    Come and learn about our upcoming study trips to France, Italy, Chile, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and hear about the experiences from the students who just came back from Australia's trip this past summer. Students of all majors and years are encouraged to attend, as there are opportunities available for everyone.  Food from the represented countries will be provided! 

     

  • Illinois Abroad Day

    September 6, 10-4, stop by 372a College of Education for cookies, prizes, and information on Education Abroad programming. 

  • Illini Military Shout Outs for Veterans Day Football Game

    The University of Illinois Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will be honoring our Military in recognition of Veteran’s Day at our Nov. 16 football game this year. They would like to include some Fighting Illini “shout outs” and pictures of our Illinois “family” serving in the military here and overseas. Any student or alumni who are serving in the military are invited to send a video or picture to be included. You can simply video tape your “shout out” using the script below, load to YouTube, and complete the form at http://www.fightingillini.com/shoutout.

  • Illini Fest Paints Chicago Orange and Blue

    Illini friends and family packed the Park Grill Plaza in Millennium Park on the afternoon of July 18 for the first-ever Illini Fest event. University units and colleges had their orange and blue on display for hundreds of Chicagoans passing by the Bean, including Illinois alumni, current students, and even future Illini.

  • IGlobal Virtual Study Abroad Internship Info Sessions

    The Office of International Program is hosting information sessions for undergraduate students about IGlobal virtual study abroad internships.

  • iGlobal Program Highlighted in U.S. DOE Newsletter

    The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education International and Foreign Language office recently featured the College of Education's iGlobal Program.

  • "I Feel, Therefore I Am: A Look at Social-Emotional Development in Tajikistan" presented by Associate Professor Kristen Bub

    ­Department of Educational Psychology Brownbag Seminar Series
    Taking Educational Psychology Abroad

    "I Feel, Therefore I Am: A Look at Social-Emotional Development in Tajikistan"

    Thursday, November 17, 2016
    12:00 – 12:50
    22 Education Building

    In this presentation I will discuss recent research I have been doing in Tajikistan in collaboration with the Aga Kahn Foundation. In particular, I will describe the process we used to determine the cultural and contextual relevance of existing social-emotional measures and discuss the development of a new measure for use in rural Tajik communities. Additionally, I will summarize findings from a preliminary study of the impacts of Early Childhood Education on children’s language, mathematics and social skill development and highlight how these findings informed an ongoing longitudinal impact study in Tajikistan. Finally, I will illustrate how we have taken this research and are using it to create sustainable practice in Tajik schools in an attempt to improve classroom quality across early childhood.

  • IES Postdoctoral Research Symposium

    Please join us on Monday, October 20th in Room 242 for the IES Postdoctoral Research Symposium.  We will have the following two sessions:

    11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: The Postdoctoral Experience: Reflections from Past & Current Fellows

    12:45 - 2:00 PM: IES Postdoctoral Fellows' Research Presentations

    Lunch will be provided by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction Colloquium Series.

  • IDEALL Grand Opening - Wednesday, September 30

    Illinois Digital Ecologies and Learning Laboratory (IDEALL) Grand Opening

    Wednesday, September 30, 2015

    3:00 – 5:00 PM

    166-170-176 Education Building

    IDEALL is a research laboratory developed for use by educational, learning sciences, and educational technology researchers both in the College of Education and from the wider campus research community. A highly configurable space, IDEALL is intended to facilitate investigations of cutting-edge, technology-enhanced learning environments in both formal and informal learning settings, and across the life-span. The Lab offers state-of-the-art 360-degree video and audio capture, a highly configurable lighting system, projectable surfaces and associated projection infrastructure in every dimension, a pull-out interview room, an observation center with one-way mirror, and more. The Lab is ideal for setting up, and capturing, learner interactions with state-of-the-art digital learning environments, including virtual and augmented realities, multi-touch surfaces for collaborative learning, and educational games, among other platforms.

    Please join us to explore the capabilities and affordances of the Lab. Demonstrations of capacity and use will be offered, with opportunities to connect with researchers who are putting the Lab to use.

     

     

  • Idalia Nunez Receives Three Awards for Dissertation

    Curriculum & Instruction Assistant Professor Idalia Nunez has been recognized with three awards in 2019 for her outstanding dissertation.

  • ICYMI: SPED's Amber Ray Awarded IES Early Career Grant

    Congratulations to assistant professor of Special Education Amber Ray, who has been awarded an Early Career Grant from the Institute of Education Sciences' National Center for Special Education Research.

  • ICYMI: Photos from 2019 Convocation Now Available

    Photos from Grad Images are available for viewing, download, and purchase.

  • Dr. Nancy Latham

    ICYMI: Nancy Latham Appointed Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs

    Dr. Nancy Latham has agreed to serve the College of Education as both the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Executive Director of the Council on Teacher Education (CoTE).

  • ICYMI: Meadan Family Lab Wins 2022 INSAR Cultural Diversity Research Award

    The Meadan Family Lab was selected to receive the 2022 INSAR (International Society for Autism Research) Cultural Diversity Research Award. The award application highlighted the projects led by James Lee, Stacy McGuire, Kaori Terol, Michelle Sands, Moon Chung, and Nikki Adams.

  • Angel Velez

    ICYMI: Angel Velez Featured in NBC News Story on Racism Within Racial Diversity

    ICYMI: Angel Velez, EPOL Doctoral Candidate and OCCRL Research Associate, featured in NBC News story on Racism Within Racial Diversity.

  • ICTW Symposium: April 25-26, 2022

    Registration is now open for the ICTW Symposium, focusing on career development and transition to work for students with disabilities, with particular focus on students with significant disabilities.

  • IGlobal logo

    Hurry Up! Join IGlobal Virtual Study Abroad Program

    The IGlobal program is aimed to provide opportunities for middle school students all around the globe to obtain and develop global citizenship by learning about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are actively looking for teachers, students, and administrators from middle schools and undergraduates who are interested in participating in a virtual study abroad internship program.

     

  • Humanities Without Walls’ Summer Bridge Program Welcomes EPOL PhD Student Rayven Morrow

    Humanities Without Walls’ Summer Bridge participants were just announced, and among them is an EPOL PhD student Rayven Morrow. Participants in this program, supported by the Mellon Foundation, are matched with local community organizations to collaborate on a summer project.

  • Wenho David Huang

    Huang Named 2023-2024 Provost Fellow

    Wenhao David Huang was one of four Faculty Fellows named by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs John Coleman.

  • Wenho David Huang

    Huang Co-PI for Two PCORI Funded Grants

  • HRI Offering Free Virtual Academic Writing Retreat Through Inkwell

    The Humanities Research Institute at Illinois is sponsoring a full-day virtual academic writing retreat on June 28, 2021 for faculty and graduate students (must be UIUC-affiliated). There is no charge to units or individuals, as HRI is covering the cost. And it’s not limited to the humanities—participants from all disciplines are encouraged to attend! 

  • HRD Doctoral Student Part of iVenture Accelerator Project

    Congratulations to Bethanie Couri, an Ed.D. student in EPOL's Human Resource Development program, who is part of two projects selected as part of the Gies College of Business' 2022 iVenture Accelerator cohort.

  • Anjali Forber-Pratt

    HRD Alumna Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt Receives 2021 Harold Scharper Award from DRES

    Named for the first paraplegic to attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Harold Scharper Award recognizes alumni who have received services from DRES and who have attained outstanding success and national or international distinction in their chosen business, profession, or life’s work.

  • HRD 590: Advanced Learning System Design: Case Studies and Learning Engagement

    When: Spring 2014, Tuesdays (9 am - 1150 am)

    Where: TBD

    CRN = 60808

     

    Learning system design embodies the effect of educational, instructional, training and development interventions across organizations. Merely applying design models and processes has been proven insufficient to resolve ill-structured learning- and performance-related problems. Designers often found themselves overwhelmed by the multifaceted nature of learning design problems. To advance your understanding and analytical abilities facing the implicit complexity of design situations, the first part of the course reviews, analyzes, and synthesizes design theories situated in instructional design cases. Second, the course looks at motivational design theories and learning engagement frameworks to augment existing instructional design theories that are lacking emphasis on learning engagement. You will have opportunities to develop advanced knowledge and skills in designing and evaluating learning engagement systems for various learning environments.

     

    For more information, please contact Dr. W. David Huang at wdhuang@illinois.edu.

     

  • HRD 575 Innovations in e-Learning

    HRD 575 Innovations in e-Learning

     

    Time: Wednesdays from 9 am to 1150 am

    Location: 215B DKH

    Instructor: Dr. W. David Huang (wdhuang@illinois.edu)

    CRN: 62334

     

    Course Description:

    This course is designed to provide you with resources that will familiarize you with ongoing innovations in Web-­based electronic technologies that can be used to deliver e-Learning content across organizations. You will critically review ongoing e-Innovations that you may be able to integrate with your content in today’s e-Communication and e-Learning environments.

    The first strategy is for you to stay informed of emerging technologies, as indicated by The Horizon Report. The Horizon Report is a joint publication by New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, who each year identify and describe six areas of emerging technologies that are likely to exert major effects on learning in higher education within 1–5 years. The report draws on the ongoing discussion and research efforts of the advisory board’s members in the fields of business, industry, and education. During your second week of instruction you will be introduced to EDUCAUSE and the NMC. You will read this year’s Horizon Report and those of the past two years.

    Although The Horizon Report focuses on emerging technologies for teaching and learning, it is ultimately up to you to decide which technologies you will use to facilitate e-Learning. Thus, this course’s goal is to expose you to multiple technology genres.

    The second strategy of this course is to keep you updated on e-Learning technologies, organized by genres. Technologies are emerging and advancing faster than we can grasp. This course is organized to help you focus on the diversity of technology genres. (A technology genre is a set of conventions organized by similarities.) Although genres are usually discussed more in the fields of literature and art, in this course we will be talking a lot about technology genres. This approach will help you understand how the different Web-­based technologies are categorized, and will also help you organize current and emerging Internet-­ and Web-­based technologies for e-Learning. These can include social virtual worlds, social networking, mobile access, multimedia development, social bookmarking, and educational games. Many more Web-­based technologies exist—and who knows? You may be able to identity a Web-­based technology genre we don’t discuss in even this course.

    These strategies will help you stay as current as possible with ongoing innovation in Internet-­ and Web-­based technologies for e-Learning. This course will introduce you to these strategies in greater depth and help you apply them in your own life.

  • HRD 480 Foundation of Online Teaching and Learning (Spring 2017) - Seats are still available!

    HRD 480 Foundation of Online Teaching and Learning

    Spring 2017

    Instructor: Eunjung Grace Oh

    Location: 166 Education

    Time: 1-3:50 pm on Tuesdays

    CRN: 64984 or 64985 

    Course Description (The course is available to all students!)

    The course seeks to build foundational knowledge in online teaching and learning and distance education in both higher education and workplace learning settings. Major areas of interest include the historical and conceptual foundations, current status and trends, design and development, teaching and learning strategies, learning technology and digital media, online learners and instructors, evaluation, research and scholarship and so forth.

    Questions? Please contact egraceoh@illinois.edu

  • HRD 475- Fall 2017

    No matter where you envision yourself to begin your career, being able to manage teams of professionals is a much-appreciated and universally important skill in the workplaces. 

    Do you know how to assemble the best team for your grant proposals and special projects? Are you prepared for the challenges that come with managing multiple teams and projects? Do you know how to successfully managing projects and people? Do you know how to realize your teams’ potentials? HRD 475 would help you identify those answers in Fall 2017.

    HRD 475 (Project Management in Human Resource Development/Education)

    CRN: 66191

    Thursdays, 1 pm-350 pm

    Course Description:

    This course offers students the opportunity to acquiring skills for developing and implementing training/development, research, or community outreach projects in any organization. These are key skills because it is estimated that as much as 50% of the work that you will do in an organization will be done as a project. This course also provides best practices and principles related to the management of projects in educational organizations (all levels, traditional or online), emphasis on team building and leadership, establishing relationships, benchmarks and evaluative practices, and review and use of various project management tools.

  • Professor Helen Neville

    How Racism Hurts Black Mental Health and How You Can Help

    ICYMI: Helen Neville, professor of Educational Psychology and African American Studies, joined Illinois Public Media's The 21st to explain these concepts, racism as a public health crisis, and diversity issues related to wellbeing.

  • "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Deliberate Practice Isn't Enough."

    DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
    BROWNBAG ANNOUNCEMENT

    “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Deliberate Practice Isn’t Enough.”

    Presented by Elizabeth J. Meinz, a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  This Brownbag is Tuesday, November 10 from 12:30–2:00 in room 210A Education Building.  For questions about this brownbag event, please contact Professor Liz Stine-Morrow at eals@illinois.edu.  

  • Hood, Hopson Editors of New Book from Harvard Education Press

    Stafford Hood, Sheila M. Miller professor emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Rodney Hopson, professor of Educational Psychology, are editors of a new publication from Harvard Education Press, Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education, examining how to improve research, evaluation, and assessment.

  • Hong Kong talk by C&I professor made possible by College collaboration

    Education practitioners, professionals from various fields, students, and parents gathered together on Feb. 13 in Hong Kong to hear a talk by Sarah J. McCarthey called “Teachers’ Curricular Enactments in Writing Instruction.”

  • Homecoming Parade Float Building at the College of Education

    Join in building a Homecoming Parade float representing the College of Education. The Homecoming Parade is a tradition dating back to 1910! It is a time to collaborate with current students, faculty & staff from across the College & University. Bring family and friends to join with classmates & colleagues to build the float on October 22 & 23rd from 6-9 P.M. And, throughout the day on October 24th. The parade starts at the College of Education and continues down 6th Street. Join the festivities and watch the parade with friends from the College of Education in front of the Library on 6th Street. The parade starts at 6 P.M. on October 24th. For more information regarding float building contact Allison Witt at awitt1@illinois.edu To learn more about all the Homecoming Festivities check out http://homecoming.illinois.edu/

     

  • Homecoming 2015

    College of Education Faculty, Students, and Staff are invited to attend the Homecoming Parade Party on the North side of the College of Education on October 23, 5:00 pm.  Join Alumni of our College, students from University Primary School, and current College of Education students as we launch our float, enjoy food and games for students of all ages.  The Marching Illini will play for us! Join us in this celebration of Education and the lasting impact on Alumni.

  • HOLA: Listening to Latin@ Students

    The article gives recommendations for how mathematics teachers can better listen to and support their students who are Latin@.  Some of the recommendations include how to position immigrant students as experts. It draws on work Dr. Gutiérrez did as a year-long Fulbright scholar studying mathematics classrooms in Zacatecas, Mexico. READ the full article.

  • Hispanic Outlook on Education: Supporting Multilingual Education in Illinois

  • Hiring Teachers for the 16/17 School Year

    Join Us at Crane Schools in Yuma Arizona!

    https://craneesd.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

    Teaching at Crane

  • Linda Herrera

    Herrera Publishes Website on Egyptian Education Research

    Herrera has been researching education reform in Egypt since 2018. The site includes resources available in both English and Arabic and is an asset for those studying education in the middle east.

  • Alma Mater welcomes you back

    Helpful Tips for a Smooth Return to Campus

    In addition to this summer's updates from campus and the College regarding COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, mental health resources and more, IT Partners at Education has compiled helpful tips on returning to work on campus for faculty and staff—especially those who have not been on campus since March 2020.

  • Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky Receives Provost's Campus Distinguished Promotion Award

    Eleven faculty members on campus, including Special Education's Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky, have been honored with the Provost’s Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for 2019.

  • Health Equity Scholars Poster Session and Celebration Luncheon

    The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) and the College of Education invite you to the Health Equity Scholars Poster Session and Celebration Luncheon on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., at the Beckman Institute.

  • Harvard University Hosts Juneteenth Talk Featuring EPOL Assistant Teaching Professor Theopolies J. Moton III

    In honor of Juneteenth and the recent conversations around Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, the Harvard Office of Diversity & Inclusion welcomes historian Theopolies J. Moton III for the lecture "Reconciling with our Historical Memory: Committing to HBCUs as Social Progression" on Monday, June 13, 2022 at noon CST.

  • Handshake @ Illinois replaces I-Link

    Handshake @ Illinois is students' new career-services platform to access postings for jobs and internships, on-campus interviews, workshops, career coaching appointments, and much more.  Handshake is used at more than 400 schools nationwide and by 230,000 employers worldwide, exposing students to more employers and job postings than ever before.

  • GSE professor produces short film on French philosopher Alain Badiou

    On the occasion of the seven-year anniversary of the Egyptian uprising of 2011, Professor Linda Herrera of the Global Studies in Education program produced a short film with French philosopher Alain Badiou for her column in openDemocracy, “Critical Voices in Critical Times.”

    Watch the video and read the column.

  • GSE Early Summer Symposium

    GSE Early Summer Symposium

    May 23, 2014 9am-5pm

    Room 22, Education Building

    Symposium Committee: Prof. Cameron McCarthy and Xiuying “Sophy” Cai

     

    9:00-9:45am: Welcoming and Opening Speech

    Thinking about the Cultural Studies of Education in a Time of Recession: Learning to Labor and the Work of Aesthetics in Modern Life

    Author: Dr. Cameron McCarthy: Global Studies in Education and Institute of Communication Research

     

    9:50-11:10am: Rearticulating Territory, Citizenship and Rights in the New Millennium

    Porous Categories: Immigration Documentation and the Performativity of Citizenship

    Author: Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Global Studies in Education

    Problematizing Citizenship in Theory and Practice: Overlaps and Contradictions of Citizenship Strategies in Educational Reform in the Philippines

    Author: Elizer Jay de los Royal: Global Studies in Education

    “Social” Democratic Deficit?: Interrogating the Changes in Norwegian Education in the PISA Era

    Author: Paul Myers: Social and Cultural Studies in Education

    Rapping for a Change: The Poetics and Performance of Women’s Rights in Arab Hip Hop Culture

    Author: Angela Williams: Global Studies in Education

    Chair & Discussant: Mor Gueye: Curriculum and Instruction

     

    11:15-12:15pm: Imagining the Local and the Global: Towards Inclusive Global Community

    Towards a Digitally Inclusive Community Model: A Case Study of Parents and Children in a High Poverty Elementary School

    Author: Samaa Haniya: Global Studies in Education

    Riding the Bus in Orchard Downs: A Case of Grounded Globalization

    Author: Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education

    The global perspective of an international curriculum framework

    Author: Leonardus Sudibyo: Curriculum and Instruction

    Chair & Discussant: Jaehee Park: Curriculum and Instruction

     

    12:15-13:15pm:  Lunch Discussion with Invited Speaker: Chaitut Roungchai (GSE 2014 PhD Graduate)

    Twists and Turns in the Process of Dissertating:  a Case in Working with Ethnography and Refugee Community

     

    1:25-2:00pm: (Re)Design of the Golden Triangle: Policy Interpretations of New Campuses in Singapore and Finland

    Author: Dr. Allison Witt: Global Studies in Education and Office of International Programs

     

    2:10-3:10pm: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in the 21st Century

    Unequal “Global Connection:” Forging Critical Cosmopolitan Relationships through Dialectics of Space and Time

    Author: Xiuying “Sophy” Cai: Global Studies in Education

    Trying a Method: Freire’s Work as Autobiographical Text

    Author: Daniel Johnson Mardones: Curriculum and Instruction

    Theories of Meaning and English Language Education

    Authors: Natalie Mullen & Lisa Chason: Global Studies in Education

    Chair & Discussant: Terry Vaughan III: Philosophy of Education

     

    3:20-4:20pm: Democratizing International Education in Globalizing Universities

    International Graduate Student Social Adaptations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Authors: Jason M. Bailey; Jasmine D. Collins, and Jelena Pokimica: Human Resource Development

    Universities in a Global Market: Exploring Entrepreneurialism and University-Industry Linkages

    Author: Georganne Sadomytschenko: Global Studies in Education

    Democratizing International Education:  Increasing African American Representation in U.S. Study Abroad Programs

    Author: Dinah Armstead: Global Studies in Education

    Chair & Discussant: Xiaokang “Violet” Tang: Global Studies in Education

     

    4:25-5:00pm 2014-15 Graduate College Funded Focal Point Opening Speech

    Diversity and Internationalization of Higher Education: Possibilities for Collision and Collaboration

                Author: Dr. Nicole Lamers, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts                   and Sciences