Dabae Lee Joins Instructional Design and Technology Faculty at Emporia State University

The Department of Instructional Design and Technology at Emporia State University is excited to announce a new addition the faculty. Dabae Lee will be joining the department as an assistant professor this August. She will be teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Dabae Lee received her B.A. in Business Administration at Yonsei University in South Korea and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Instructional Technology and another M.S. in Inquiry Methodology at Indiana University. Her research interests include personalized learning, student collaboration in PBL, roles of technology in personalized learning, learner-centered paradigm, active learning spaces, and research methods in Instructional Technology.

Please join us in welcoming her to Emporia State University and Emporia, KS.

Two New Members Join the Instructional Design and Technology Faculty at Emporia State University

After an extensive faculty search, we are excited to announce two new additions to the Emporia State University Instructional Design and Technology Family. Yeol Huh and Sungwoong Lee will be joining the department as assistant professors this August.  They will be teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Yeol Huh, Ph.D.

Please join us in welcoming them to Emporia State University and Emporia, KS.


Yeol Huh, Ph.D.

Yeol Huh received his M.S. and Ph.D. in the Department of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. He worked for the Samsung C&T Corporation in the international trading division as a business associate, and also worked for a Fortune 500 company as an instructional designer. 

His research interests include promoting learners’ self-regulated learning, self-efficacy, and motivation in technology-enhanced learning environments by integrating technology and facilitating technology integration for learner-centered instruction especially in teacher education. 

Sungwoong Lee, Ph.D.

Sungwoong Lee, Ph.D.

Sungwoong Lee graduated from the Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies program at Florida State University in 2016. His dissertation, The Effects of Representation Format in Problem Representation on Qualitative Understanding and Quantitative Proficiency in a Learning Game Context, addresses how educational games, by providing various types of learning support, promote the acquisition and application of conceptual understanding in order to enhance mathematical problem solving in the formal educational context. While at Florida State University, he have accumulated teaching experience in both in-classroom and online courses in the College of Education at FSU. He earned his master’s degree in 2009 and bachelor’s degree in 2006 from Korea University.  

His research interests include problem solving in game-based learning, immersive virtual learning environments, design of virtual learning environments for students with autism, and technology integration in classroom. 

Transitioning to Summer

Congratulations Spring 2015 Graduates!

We had a wonderful time celebrating with the accomplishments of our Spring 2015 IDT Graduates!  Please join us in wishing our graduates well on our Facebook page.  There are lots of photos for you to help you participate in the celebration.
 

Summer Advising

During the summer, faculty advisors tend to have complicated schedules.  In order to make sure your questions get answered in a timely manner, we will have one sole faculty advisor for the summer.  Between May 18 through August 11th, Dr. Insook Han (ihan@emporia.edu), will be serving as the direct contact for ALL summer advising questions.  On August 12th, you can resume contacting your regular advisor.  Dr. Han will work with Dr. Colorado and Janet Schneider to get any questions you have answered.

ESU Collaboration Results in STEM Teacher Training Grant

Dusti Howell, Ph.D., will serve as the
SMASH  Project Director

Emporia, KS – Emporia State faculty were notified late last week they were successful in obtaining a nearly $200,000 grant. Faculty in The Teachers College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were notified they will receive an Improving Teacher Quality grant through the Kansas Board of Regents. 

The project, STEM Makes Academic Success Happen (SMASH) was selected for funding in the amount of $189,067 over 19 months.

“Twenty-five teachers from Marais des Cygnes, Eureka, Southern Lyon County and Emporia will spend the next year working with us on innovative ways to get their students excited about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education),” said Dusti Howell, the project’s director.

Seven corporate sponsors have agreed to support this training. 

The goal of the project is to implement a partnership between Emporia State, school districts (grades 4-8) and STEM education companies, in order to improve teachers’ and students’ content knowledge of STEM as well as provide a means to stimulate and motivate student academic achievement.

Through workshops with practicing teachers, the SMASH project will use a variety of methods and instruction to increase teachers’ knowledge of their subjects. Included in this will be the use of affordable robotics and engineering challenges, working across subject areas and grade levels, training teachers with research-based academic success strategies, and using peer coaching to work towards long term improvement.

The project is a joint effort across the university, and will involve: Howell, professor in the instructional design and technology department, Matt Seimears, associate professor of the elementary education, early childhood, and special education department, Christopher Pettit, associate professor physical sciences department, and Joe Kern, instructional designer. 

In the workshops, teachers will create lesson plans written to Next Generation Science Standards the teachers can use in their classrooms.

The seven corporate sponsors of this training include: PITSCO, DEPCO, Snap-On, TRANE, Sunflower Electric, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation and the Cosmosphere. These summer workshops will take place over the next two years.

2014 AECT International Convention Proves Productive for IDT Faculty and Students

Jacksonville, FL – A trip to the 2014 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention in Jacksonville, FL proved to be very productive for the Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) Masters Program.  In November, faculty and students collaborated to give presentations, enjoyed other presentations about issues in IDT, as well as met and networked with scholars in the field.   

Dr. Jozenia Colorado, Chair and Associate Professor and Dr. Harvey Foyle, Professor in the IDT Department collaborated with students to give two different presentations, while one group of students presented on their own.  The following presentations were given:

• Creating Augmented Reality Applications for Educational Environments, presented by Dr. Jozenia Colorado and IDT Students Ning Liu, Xianyu Liu, and Heishan Luo.  IDT Alum Patrick Resa also collaborated on the content of the presentation, but was unable to attend the convention.
•  Cloud Computing: Reliability, Ownership, and Security, presented by Dr. Harvey Foyle and IDT Students Jingwei Chen, Lixiazi Lu, and Muxin Wang.
• 3D Printing Technology, presented by Lin Lin, Eva Gyawali, Weiwei Ji, and Minji Park.

Students enjoyed the convention atmosphere.  IDT student Weiwei Ji said it was a great point of exposure to the IDT field.  “We were able to interact with the top scholars in the field and authors of our textbooks.  To me, I met the IDT celebrities!”

IDT student Lixiazi Lu felt the AECT convention atmosphere was very supportive of graduate students.  Lu collaborated on a roundtable presentation and said, “It was a friendly atmosphere in which we could discuss different perspectives of our topic.”

As the most recognized association of information concerning a wide range of instructional and educational technology, AECT is the oldest professional home for this field of interest and has continuously maintained a central position in the field, promoting high standards, both in scholarship and in practice.  It provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of ideas for its members and for target audiences; it is the national and international spokesperson for the improvement of instruction.

As an international student from Nepal, IDT student Eva Gyawali was impressed with the representation from other countries.  Gyawali said, “AECT gave me the opportunity to meet people associated with my field from all over the world.”  While it was a little overwhelming to have met so many people from different countries and see their achievements in this field, Gyawali said, “it was a great learning experience and good opportunity to build national as well as international networks.”

Chinese IDT student Lin Lin agreed the experience was an opportunity to build international networks in the IDT field.  “I met the president of the AECT Affiliate of Hong Kong, China.  He is trying to establish a relationship between IDT professionals in China Mainland, Hong Kong, and the United States.” China Mainland is not very developed in the IDT field and Lin hopes her country can catch up with other countries.

Student travel was supported by funds from Emporia State University’s Graduate Office, the Associated Student Government in support of members of the Instructional Technology Student Association, The Teachers College Dean’s Office, as well as IDT Departmental funds.  Students volunteered their time working at registration and the technology support desk to off-set the cost of their registration fee. 

Dr. Colorado said the support given to these students was well worth it.  She enjoyed mentoring the students in preparation for their presentations.  “For most of them, this was their first professional presentation.  It is a wonderful feeling to watch them grow as presenters in the months leading up to the convention and then watch their final presentation in front of fellow IDT colleagues from all over the world.”

Dr. Colorado, who has been active in AECT governance groups over the last few years, had a few more accomplishments in addition to her presentation.  She began a new three-year appointment to the AECT Board (2014 -2017) as a representative of the Research and Theory Division.  She was also honored with a Special Service Award in appreciation for her dedicated service to AECT. 

The faculty in the IDT Department try to help students attend the AECT International Convention every year.  It is a valuable experience for both students and faculty alike. 

New Faculty Member to Join IDT in January 2015

Dr. Insook Han will be joining the IDT family starting in January, 2015.  Dr. Han will be coming to ESU from Seoul, South Korea, where she is currently an Assistant Professor at Hanyang Cyber University.  She earned her doctorate of education in the area of Instructional Technology and Media from the Teachers College at Columbia University. Dr. Han’s areas of expertise include Emerging Technologies on Learning, Technology Use in K-12 Settings, and Teaching with Multimedia Technologies.  She has published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Educational Technology International. She has given several presentations at AERA as well as ED-MEDIA. When you have the opportunity to do so, please give her a warm ESU IDT welcome!