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Spotlight Projects and Research

Awarded projects relevant to TIER-ED focus and goals:

Several projects are currently active where TIER-ED faculty and students are re-designing the ways that museums engage their visitors with digital content. These include collaborations with several prominent museums across the country.
- The Role of Online Museum Experiences in Supporting At-Home Science Learning in the Era of COVID-19
- ID-19 Risk Mitigation: Interactive Automatic Counselor
- Settlers: Transforming a Collaborative STEM Education Game for COVID-19 Online Use
TIER-ED community members have been very successful in receiving funding from external agencies such as the National Science Foundation. Here we highlight 2 ongoing projects that have recently received NSF funding.
TIER-ED funded Pilot Projects, Graduate Fellowships, and Research Award 2020-2021
TIER-ED funded Pilot Projects: 4 projects awarded to interdisciplinary team of faculty and researchers
TIER-ED Graduate Fellowship Recipients: Gerry Derksen and Taehyun Kim
TIER-ED Research Award Recipient: James Lee
News
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How to Defend Your Dissertation, Virtually
Apr 9, 2020, 14:55 PM by Nitasha Mathayas, PhDOn March 24, one day after in-person meetings and instruction at the university were halted and moved online due to the coronavirus pandemic, Nitasha Mathayas earned a new title: PhD.Full story -
Luc Paquette Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Feb 19, 2020, 17:34 PM by Ashley LawrencePaquette’s five-year award from NSF of $695,871 will involve using data-driven approaches to study the debugging processes (identifying and resolving defects in computer programs) of novice programmers enrolled in a college level introductory computer science course, identify the meaningful elements of their debugging behaviors and how those elements combine to form common debugging strategies.Full story -
The Bureau of Educational Research: Ready for the Future
Oct 25, 2019, 15:30 PM by Tom Hanlon“In the next 100 years, we’re going to see education have a much greater impact across many fields. Education will not just impact its own field, but fields like medicine, social sciences, artificial intelligence, and so on. And collaborations are going to fuel and enable that impact.” — Gabrielle Allen, Associate Dean for Research and Research EducationFull story -
CS Education for Illinois Children, Teachers to be Summit Focus
Aug 28, 2019, 16:54 PM by Sharita Forrest, UI News BureauTeachers, lawmakers and other stakeholders will begin planning how to address the need for computer science education in Illinois public schools at a Summit in Urbana.Full story -
DELTA/AppLeS Capstone Project Presentations
May 8, 2019, 14:00 PM by jkellogg@illinois.edu (Julie Kellogg)Full story -
Considering the Future of Medical Education
Feb 26, 2019, 09:52 AM by Common Ground ScholarRecently, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership professors Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope visited the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, on the invitation of NSF project partner and U of I College of Medicine professor Dr. Richard Tapping. The purpose of the visit was to explore shared teaching and research interests in the rapidly changing field of medical education.Full story -
Powerful Innovations in Educational Technology
Oct 23, 2018, 08:56 AM by Tom HanlonA new initiative based in the College of Education at Illinois promises to launch the University of Illinois into the national, and even international, spotlight as it addresses critical issues in education through innovative uses of technology.Full story -
College Welcomes Nine New Faculty Members to Illinois
Aug 27, 2018, 08:52 AM by the College of Education at IllinoisThe College of Education at Illinois has increased its ranks this fall with the hiring of nine scholars across multiple research areas.Full story -
New TIER-ED scholars position College as ed-tech leader
Jul 3, 2018, 09:12 AM by the College of Education at IllinoisThe College of Education at Illinois hired three new faculty members to join TIER-ED, a cross-disciplinary research community at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Full story -
DELTA faculty seeking students interested in tech in learning environments
Nov 23, 2016, 09:00 AM by the College of Education at IllinoisFaculty members of the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching & Agency (DELTA) at the College of Education at Illinois are encouraging undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in studying digital learning environments to apply for the DELTA program by Dec. 1.Full story