|
(1) Start date for the announcement (please give at least a week's notice), end date for the announcement (if appropriate), contact person (2) Title for the listing (name of institution, name of program) (3) Brief announcement (60 words or less), including a URL for further details and/or an email address, in plain text for pasting into this page.
|
Conference Anouncements | Newsletter |
Journal/Special Issue Announcements
Programs of Study
M.S. Programs
University of Nottingham
Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI)
Advanced Interactive Technologies ( for work, play and learning)
Master Programme
The Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) is a collaboration between the Schools of Education, Computer Science and IT, and Psychology.
The MSc course offers a new opportunity to extend your knowledge and skills of developing, using or evaluating technology to enhance work, play and learning. The programme has been designed for graduates from a variety of backgrounds in order to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to interaction design, research and development. It will be of most benefit to those wishing to enhance their careers prospects in sectors such as new media and technology, entertainment, training, learning or research.
Further information is available at www.nottingham.ac.uk/lsri or from lsri-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk
Contact: Miss Heidi Mather
Stanford University, Learning
Design and Technology
Masters' Program
The Masters' program in LDT prepares students from a variety of backgrounds (cognitive science, art and design, k-12 or university education, business, information technology) to design new ways to use technology for teaching and learning.
The program is a small (20 or so students), project-based one-year Masters' degree program. Students work in teams with a distinguished faculty to study and design computer and telecommunications learning environments and devices for various learning environments - schools, homes, community organizations, museums, and businesses.
Design philosophy is grounded in principles of learning behavioral, cognitive, and socially situated. Graduates have worked in software development firms, in schools as technology coordinators, in universities as staff to innovative teaching and learning projects, in museums designing online programs and interactive kiosks, in community-based organizations, and in corporate training and education departments. Designed for innovative, academically able students with initiative and strong academic records and relevant work experience.
For further details see: http://ldt.stanford.edu or contact Kihyun Ryoo.
Ph.D. Program in Engineering
Education at Virginia Tech
Details at: http://www.enge.vt.edu/Graduate/gradphd.html
Contact: Graduate coordinator, Whitney Hoskins, at whoskins@vt.edu or 540-231-7359
We
are able to invite a small number of prospective students to come learn
more about our programs with support of travel scholarships (for Fall
2012 apply by Sep. 7, 2011)
Indiana
University Learning Sciences Program
PhD,
Masters, Online Certificate, & Online Courses
Indiana University Learning Sciences is currently offering top quality online courses, and has a four-course online certificate program in Learning Sciences, Media, and Technology starting Spring 2011. These limited-enrollment courses feature extensive interaction and are taught by IULS faculty members. Tuition is rates are highly competitive. Visit www.iu.edu/~lsmt for more information and upcoming course offerings.
University of Pittsburgh
The Learning Sciences and Policy (LSAP) Ph.D. program at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) is based on the belief that understanding learning, teaching, and organizations is best undertaken as an interactive system, and that an integrated and coordinated interdisciplinary approach is best suited to understand, design and implement educational change. The program combines disciplines in learning sciences, teaching in the content disciplines, and organization and policy studies with the goal of improving instruction at scale, and is predicated on the idea that successful policy solutions will require learning on the part of educational professionals at all levels of the system.
You can find out more information about this program at http://www.lpc.pitt.edu.
PhD
studies in the learning sciences and learning technologies at Carnegie
Mellon University
Application deadline: December 15, 2009
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites applications for PhD
studies in the learning sciences and learning technologies, an emphasis
area within the PhD program in Human-Computer Interaction. The faculty
in the HCI Institute have a long history of successful research in the
learning sciences and learning technologies. They have not only made
advances in basic science and technology, but have also been successful
in wide-spread adoption of their research through applications in use
by learners around the country and around the world.
Current research topics include:
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* Educational games
* Metacognition and motivation
* Educational technology tools for developing regions
* Authoring tools for non-programmers to create tutors
* Educational data mining
* Use of language technologies to support collaborative learning
* Student modeling
* Project-based learning for engineering design
* Supporting teachers through automated formative assessment
HCII faculty members who are working on these topics:
* Vincent Aleven - Associate Professor
* Albert Corbett - Associate Research Professor
* Matthew Kam - Assistant Professor
* Kenneth Koedinger - Professor
* Carolyn Penstein Rosé - Assistant Professor
The HCII PhD program is highly interdisciplinary, and offers
opportunities to work across the boundaries of design, technology, and
behavioral sciences. Students focused on learning sciences and
technologies can take courses in a variety of departments as part of
their course requirements, and take advantage of the many connections
that exist across campus. The faculty members listed above collaborate
with many colleagues across campus (including, among others, the
Department of Psychology and the Statistics Department) and at the
University of Pittsburgh. They are also affiliated with the Pittsburgh
Sciences of Learning Center, an NSF-sponsored $50M research center
focused on uncovering the conditions that cause robust student
learning. For more information, visit http://www.learnlab.org/
PhD applications are due December 15, 2009. We accept students from
many disciplinary backgrounds. For more information, visit: http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/phd-program-application.
The HCII guarantees full funding (stipend and tuition) for students who
are in good standing. Applicants who are US citizens can also apply for
a PIER fellowship, which covers stipend plus part of the tuition for 5
years. For more information, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/pier/
University of Virginia
Instructional Science & Technology program
Curry School of
Education
University of Virginia
Join one of the most vibrant IT
programs in the United States, widely recognized for its innovation and
cross-disciplinary collaboration!
Application for admission and for financial aid must be made by January
5, for the subsequent academic year. Graduate assistantships
now available:
1. Evaluation of innovative Web-based Teaching
Supports in Pre-K STEM Education
2. Teacher Education Technology Strand
3. Educational Technology Office
At Curry, Instructional Technology (IT) isn't just a program, it's a
key theme in the identity of the entire School and influential across
the University. Twenty faculty from across the School and University
come together to focus on IT and STEM Education. The University of
Virginia is one of the top-ranked public universities in the nation,
and the Curry School is nationally recognized for its leadership and
innovation, particularly in IT, where we are award-winning.
Nestled at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville has
been ranked as the most live-able city in the country, with small-town
friendliness and extensive cultural, culinary, and recreational
resources.
For further details and contact info for the many faculty collaborating
in this area, see: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/it
