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Tag: Instructional Technology

Jobs, jobs, jobs! ETRA Ph.D. students, grads turn IT prep into prestigious gigs

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA

Max Anderson is on a unique journey. He was the first instructional designer hired by the University of Illinois College of Medicine. That was 2013. And when college administrators were ready a few years later to recruit and appoint a director of

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Pi-Sui Hsu begins Senior Faculty Fellow work in promoting STEM fields to youth

October 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Pi-Sui Hsu wants to see more children enter the fields of science and engineering. Hsu, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, has launched numerous initiatives over her career to advance that goal. These have included summer

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ETRA doctoral candidate offers faculty ways to ‘rethink’ online course delivery

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

As another semester of remote learning begins, Hal Hinderliter is on a mission. Hinderliter, a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA), wants to help faculty in the NIU College of Education to reimagine the

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Educational Administration alumni lead school districts through COVID-19 crisis

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Brian Harris, M.S.Ed. ’91, Ph.D. ’01, had visited the bustling cafeteria of Barrington High School many times before. He had never regarded it the way he did March 12, however, through the social-distancing lens of COVID-19. “We have 650 kids eating lunch

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Keep learning, keep teaching: Students, alums detail their COVID-19 adjustment

April 5, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

We want to know what our teacher-licensure students and educator-alums and are doing to “keep teaching.” Please complete our Educators in Action online form to tell us how you’re promoting eLearning with your students during the COVID-19 situation! Teaching in the time

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Yanghee Kim assists UNESCO efforts to prepare children for future world

January 15, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

That the world is changing rapidly comes as no surprise to anyone who’s dialed a rotary phone attached to a wall or wearily rose from a comfortable couch to change the channel. But the relentless and breakneck pace at which technology is

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Tech leaders discuss cyber challenges, benefits at Community Learning Series

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Panelists at the NIU College of Education’s Fall 2019 Community Learning Series on cybersecurity could not have been clearer. We are under constant attack, to the tune of 1,500 malicious acts every minute. The attackers are well-financed, heavily resourced and, unfortunately, always

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Community Learning Series will explore cybersecurity during Nov. 5 discussion

October 23, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Despite the constant pleas to “put down those phones,” technology has become almost inescapable. “Technology is a part of our lives, and we’re using our technology on a daily basis,” says Wei-Chen Hung, chair of the Department of Educational Technology, Research and

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Loyal Huskie R.J. Gravel thrives in career, embodies ‘definition of lifelong learning’

October 3, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

Growing up in suburban Des Plaines, R.J. Gravel wanted to live a life in song. He enrolled at NIU in the fall of 2001 to major in music education and vocal performance, but something happened before classes began in August that would

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Learn-IT explores future of teaching tech

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Science fiction fans call May 4 “Star Wars Day” – as in, “May the Fourth Be With You” – but that particular Saturday this year centered on science reality for 120 regional teachers and instructional technology specialists. NIU’s Department of Educational Technology,

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ETRA graduate students join Fatih Demir to research brain engagement of readers

April 16, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Researchers in NIU’s Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment are preparing to study whether – and how – readers respond differently to “hard” news reports and emotional stories. Fatih Demir, an assistant professor of Instructional Technology, will use eye-tracking systems and

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Steve Builta departs for new challenges training, coordinating disaster responders

April 9, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA

Three months after his 1984 graduation from Hononegah High School, Steve Builta arrived at NIU with plans to become a school psychologist. Even though he had enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he eventually would earn a bachelor’s

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