Teaching, at least in the classroom sense, wasn’t Laura Hedin’s intention. She liked the humanities and contemplated a career in creative writing, “but my dad kept telling me I’d never make any money.” Plan B: Her older sister, Teresa, worked as a
Read moreHope (Bess) Wilson named SEED chair
Hope (Bess) Wilson is the new chair of the Department of Special and Early Education. She comes to NIU from the University of North Florida, where she had taught since 2012 and most recently served as a professor in the Department of
Read moreYanghee Kim wins NSF grant to study robots combined with augmented reality
Can robots and augmented reality combine to better teach problem-solving skills to kindergartners and first-graders? Yanghee Kim’s latest grant from the National Science Foundation will explore that question. Kim, the NIU College of Education’s Morgridge Endowed Chair and director of NIU’s CREATE
Read moreYanghee Kim assists UNESCO efforts to prepare children for future world
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
Read moreYanghee Kim, Michael Tscholl spread Morgridge mission, innovation overseas
Yanghee Kim and Michael Tscholl are generating international excitement for their work with NIU’s CREATE Center. During the summer, the researchers from the NIU College of Education’s Morgridge Endowed Chair Office participated in research workshops in Europe. They made important contacts in
Read moreNIU to open center for cutting-edge research in educational technology
Northern Illinois University is launching a new research center in 2019 to cultivate, support, harness and promote cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of education and technology. As the first research center opened under the leadership of NIU President Lisa Freeman, CREATE (Cross-disciplinary
Read moreCyberlearning workshop to host sharing of research, expertise in child/robot collaborative system
When Yanghee Kim visited the College of Education last August, the new Morgridge Chair eagerly promoted her January 2018 workshop funded by the National Science Foundation. It begins Thursday. The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) Workshop on Robots, Young Children
Read moreNew Morgridge Chair visits CoE
As a teacher in South Korea, Yanghee Kim gradually realized that her daily work in the classroom was robbing her of her joy of teaching. Day in and day out, month after month and year after year, she recited the same information
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