Rachel Pastrich graduated with her M.S. in IDD&E in May, 2016. Two weeks after graduation she was offered a job and now works as an Instructional Designer at Verisk Analytics in Jersey City.
Articles for January 2017
Happy New Year!
Welcome to a new year – 2017! Over the last couple of years the University, School of Education, and IDD&E have been going through a world wind of changes. We see it in our built surroundings, procedures and processes, and personnel. IDD&E remains very strong in its foci, practices,...
Welcome to Our New Environment!
Welcoming our new Fall 2016 students!
IDE welcomes the new students who joined the IDE program in the Fall of 2016! This photo was taken outside of Huntington Hall during our new student orientation in August.
Welcoming Lisa Battalino as our IDE Office Coordinator
Lisa started working as SOE Office Coordinator working halftime with IDE and halftime with Higher Education. Lisa is not new to Syracuse University having previously worked in Human Resources and SOE Business Services Office. She says her biggest challenge in joining the IDE team has been the “flight of...
Update on RIDLR
The Research in Designing Learning Resources – RIDLR – team has been working throughout the 2016 fall semester to clarify our focus and scope of work. To that end we have posted several concept papers that define the dimensions of learning resources that we propose to study. Concept...
Ice Cream Social
The newest addition to the ice cream social was sugar free ice cream – and it was the first to go! And with it went many happy graduates: Alex Umstead moved to a position at SSSBART Group, Caitlyn John is technology camp instructor in Cleveland Ohio, Cameron Blake went...
Brown Bag: A leisurely discourse between IDE students & faculty
Flautist, clarinet player, or violinist? Which IDE faculty member left which of these instruments behind to pursue an academic career in instructional design? On Monday, December 12, Dr. Lei, Dr. Koszalka, and Dr. Smith shared their current research projects with IDE doctoral students in a leisurely discourse. All enjoyed...
Generosity of David… and his on-going Legacy
David Krathwohl, impactful scholar and generous by nature, gave a gift fund to Syracuse University’s IDD&E Department several years ago. The fund was intended to provide financial support (stipends) to graduate students who worked with him on scholarly activities. David Reading Krathwohl passed away at the age of 95...
Remembering David Krathwohl
There are many wonderful stories about how David Krathwohl impacted the lives of those who knew him. Below are several excerpts from a few messages sent to us over the past few months. If you have other stories you would like to share about times with David, please let us...
Invasion of the ID Models
Every fall semester new master’s students attend the IDE 631 course to learn the basics of design and instructional design. This course is carefully constructed based on the internationally validated practice standards for instructional design. One of the key activities is for the students to learn about, practice, and...
2016 AECT Conference Presentations
1.Bolds, T. (2016). Negotiating Math Identity: African American Students’ Perceptions of Mathematics. Presentation at the 2016 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 17-21. 2.Chen, Y. ,Yang, T. & Lei, J. (2016). Emerging Technologies for College Students’ Inquiry-based Learning. Presentation at the 2016 Association for...
Dr. Tiffany A Koszalka
At a recent Terra Foundation Educational Technology Conference Dr. Tiffany A Koszalka gave an invited presentation about RIDLR and its potential application to STEM education. At the beginning of the session participants (primarily K-12 teachers and administrators from central NY) were prompted to explore seemingly unrelated objects, determining how...
Dr. Jing Lei
Dr. Lei will be the interim chair in IDD&E department in January-June 2017. In 2016 AECT conferences, Dr. Lei with her research team presented five papers. Following a media framework suggested by Bruce and Levin (1997) and Dewey’s (1943) four natural impulses of learning, the first paper introduces the...
Dr. Nick Lee Smith
Dr. Smith had new publications: Smith, N. L. Disciplinary research on evaluation. 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award presentation, presented at the annual meeting of the Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC, April, 2016. Smith, N. L., & Yarnall, L. Conducting Effective External Research on...
Christopher David Hromalik (Ph.D. student)
Christopher was a co-presenter of a full-day workshop, “Design and Delivery of Basic Online Language Instruction”, at the CALICO 2016 Conference (the annual conference of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) in May 2016 at Michigan State University. Christopher also led a roundtable discussion, “Self-Regulated Learning for Language Students”,...
Mary Wilhelm-Chapin (Ph.D. student)
Mary Wilhelm-Chapin received the Central New York Association for Talent Development (CNYATD) 2016 Scholarship. Mary’s scholarship application showed a passion for continuing education, particularly with her plans for pursuing a doctorate from the Syracuse University Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation program. Mary’s plans for applying this continuing education to...
Jacob Andrew Hall (Ph.D. student)
Jacob Hall (Jake) was awarded the Best Student Presentation at the 2016 AECT International Convention in October 2016 in Las Vegas. His presentation, Technology for Communications in College Student’s Learning was presented as a student member of SICET at 2016 AECT International Convention.
Yuri Pavlov’s Story (Master student)
On Friday June 17, I conducted a 2-hour master class on the intro to Instruction Design at (the) Alexander Pushkin public library in Minsk, Belarus. More than thirty secondary school teachers of foreign languages came to the event. My personal aim was to introduce the concept to the Belarusian...
