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...
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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...
IDD&E Alumni Reunion Event in South Jakarta
Alexander William Umstead (Certificate, 2016)
Alex graduated from IDDE in May with a Certificate in Instructional Design Foundations. Prior to that, he had finished a MS and completed PhD coursework in Cultural Foundations of Education in May 2015. He was hired at the end of June at SSB BART Group, Inc. as an Accessibility Analyst....
Micah Gideon Modell (Master, 2009)
Micah moved with his family to Incheon, South Korea to take a position at SUNY Korea as tenure-track faculty in the Department of Technology and Society. He also got a book chapter published.
Karen Zannini Bull (Ph.D., 2016)
In September 2016 Karen was appointed as Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Online Programs at University College. In Fall 2016 she was selected to serve as a Middle States Peer Reviewer. Karen also presented at 3 conferences: Balancing Work, Family, and a Terminal Degree: Completion Strategies for...
Tiffany M. Squires (Ph.D., 2016)
Dr. Tiffany M. Squires has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Education and Assistant Director of Online Programs for Education Leadership at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Squires is a 2015 graduate of the PhD program in IDD&E. Her dissertation research focused on principal perspectives regarding the role of the school leader in the...
Cameron Blake (Master, 2016)
Cameron worked at the Learning Experience Design, SolarCity—A Subsidiary of Tesla. He is responsible for the design and development of training materials for the customer service arm of SolarCity. This includes process documentation, process improvement, and process training. Trainings that he and his team create affect more than 1200...
Caitlyn “Kit” John (Master, 2016)
Kit most recently worked as a Technology Camp Instructor for Classroom Antics in Cleveland, Ohio during the 2016 summer camp season where she received exceptional reviews from both parents and students. She has been promoted to Program Coordinator to further optimize and develop their growing portfolio of educational programs....
Shakis Drummond (Master, 2013)
On November 9th 2016, Shakis Drummond presented at her first conference at the 2016 USCA NDLW Virtual Conference, which was hosted by University of South Carolina in Aiken. Her topic was, Alright, Stop! Collaborate and Listen. Her presentation focused on course design benefits of integration collaboration into your design process....
Leigh Melissa Tolley (Ph.D., 2016)
Leigh Tolley has just accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor in Secondary Education position at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for the 2016-2017 academic year. She will be teaching four classes per semester; for the fall, this includes two sections of Classroom Management and Instructional Design. She says, “All...
A Letter From Deborah Ann Little (Master, 2016):
Graduating with the brilliant Syracuse University class’s of 2016, I am so grateful to so many for Believing in me and assisting me along the way. Achieving a BS in IM&T, a MS in IDD&E and a CAS in Ed. Tech in 5 years certainly took some patience, encouragement,...
Thanks to Tiffany Squires and Our Alumni!
This past summer Syracuse University welcomed a new Vice Chancellor for academic affairs and Provost, Michele G. Wheatly. Many of you took this opportunity to write letters to Provost Wheatly to welcome her and advocate for IDD&E. Tiffany Squires took the lead to organize and create a pack of...
Giving Back to the IDD&E Professional Development Fund
IDD&E faculty and students are most grateful to our alumni and faculty who through their generosity provide additional funding that helps us encourage and support our students. Gifts have been used to sponsor students in conference travel, R&D activities and dissertation work, like those showcased in our newsletters. THANK YOU to our alumni, faculty, and friends who have contributed to our development funds. We hope that sharing stories in our newsletter and on our website demonstrates how much YOUR support has enriched so many. We humbly ask that you continue to remember IDD&E in your future giving.
Please visit The Syracuse University Giving webpage at http://giving.syr.edu/giving-to-su/give-now/, or call 877-2GROWSU (877-247-6978) or mail gift with form from SU Giving website. Please also remember to write or say that you wish your gift to be used in the IDD&E Professional Development Fund or Department. You can also call us at 315-443-3703.
Thank you so much for your ongoing generosity. Your gift makes a difference!
