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	May 15, 2013 \| Concordia NOW Department of Education rises to Top 150 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013 Stepping up from last year's ranking in the Top 200, the Department of Education now boasts of a rank in the Top 150. The QS World University Rankings by Subject are based on several factors including academic reputation, a survey of employers and citations per faculty. Launched in 2011, these rankings are an outgrowth of the QS World University Rankings, published annually since 2004. The expanded version aims to give future students an immediate understanding of which universities perform the best across 30 different subjects. Read more about QS World University Rankings
	May 6, 2013 New Sounds Symposium first North American edition to held at Concordia University New Sounds is an international conference for both language researchers and teachers to discuss issues concerning the acquisition of second/foreign language pronunciation (including speech perception and production). The Faculty of Arts and Science and the Department of Education are pleased to bring this exciting event to Concordia University. This three-day event will provide a meeting place for practitioners (language teachers, speech pathologists, materials designers) and theoretical and applied linguists to discuss issues concerning the acquisition of second/foreign language pronunciation. Read more
	May 2, 2013 Concordia University's Educational Technology program shines at ISPI Competition At the closing session of ISPI’s 2013 Performance Improvement Conference, Concordia University was announced as the winner of the 5th Annual ISPI Case Study Competition. This year’s competition included two outstanding teams, Concordia University and the University of New Mexico. This recognition was the crowning achievement in a journey that began this past January. A team of Master's students in Educational Technology engaged in the competition by forming a core team to take on the role of consultants in a simulation of an authentic consulting engagement with an authentic, but fictitious adventure – retail company, EAES, Inc. The team would meet weekly with the client played by Matt Donovan (founder and facilitator of the Case Study Competition). Over the course of the next three months, the team analyzed the work, worker, and workplace through a series of employee interviews and collection of organizational data. After collecting their data, the team submitted a written summary of their findings and recommendations, which they then presented to a panel of judges at the conference. The panel of judges took on the role of an Advisory Board for EAES, Inc., and evaluated each team’s proposal and presentation. This year’s panel of judges had over 110 years of experience and included Roger Addison, Ray Svenson, Anne Apking, and Eileen Banchoff. The judges acknowledged that both teams were thoughtful, professional, and clearly invested significant time in the experience. After careful consideration, the judges selected Concordia as the winner of the case competition. This win is a shining moment for the Concordia University Educational Technology program and the students involved. The team demonstrated their excellence and commitment to the field of Human Performance Technology. Congratulations to the students: Ryan Forster, Harry Kavallos, Stefan Krueger, Dahlia Radwan, Robert Leibner, Emily Sheepy, and Fei Shu. Special recognition also goes out to Sonia Di Maulo (faculty sponsor), Davina Davies and Rosanna Montoute, (advanced student support team) and Ann-Louise Davidson and Richard Schmid (faculty supervisors). Visit the CPSI Case Study Competition webpage
	May 1, 2013 \| Forbes The added value of informal interactions and informal learning Training customer service reps isn’t just a matter of classroom instruction. It requires on-the-job, informal training that happens in hallways and break rooms as well as during conversations with customers. "Formal and informal learning are interrelated processes that work together to build job performance," says Carliner. Read more
	April 22, 2013 \| CBC Montreal Schools shouldn't blindly integrate technology in the classroom Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh chats with CBC's Jeannette Kelly about importing new technologies to the classroom. "There is a large movement to digitizing because it's becomes such an integral part of our life, we would expect that it also becomes part of our education and training domain. But I think it's a mistake to subscribe to it in a blind fashion." Listen to the podcast
	April 9, 2013 \| Concordia University Magazine Designed to be Different - Education Department Featured in Concordia University Magazine Did you know that the Department of Education came to be in 1968 as an offshoot of Audio-Visual Services? Did you know that its status as a department (rather than a faculty) helped push researchers to raise their game. A full overview of the department in this spring's Concordia University Magazine Read more
	April 3, 2013 Book Launch in Celebration of International Adult Learners Week The Blossoming Roots project succeeded in bringing that wealth of knowledge to life by creating opportunities for the youth to explore that vital link between themselves and the elders, through the medium of oral history. Hourig Attarian is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Story-telling at Concordia University. Her work focuses on storying memory and identity through visual and narrative explorations. Read more
	March 18, 2013 \| Concordia Alumni Association Cognitive Ergonomics - What it is and how it can help you with your projects Cognitive ergonomics studies mental work. It’s main focus is to help specify user information needs (user requirements) and user interfaces. Cognitive ergonomics relies on an impressive body of knowledge that includes mental workload, decision-making, skilled performance, human-computer interaction, human reliability, work stress and training. This web conference will introduce the field and illustrate through two case studies how it may be applied to e-learning. It will also comment on recent technological developments such as tablets and Google glasses. Read more
	March 18, 2013 \| Concordia NOW You Always Hurt the Ones you Love Professor Holly Recchia's recent study suggests that conflict with our younger siblings and schoolyard conflict with friends both provide opportunities for learning about right and wrong which can help parents and educators to encourage children to use these situations as teachable moments. She is the co-author of a paper forthcoming in Child Development. Read more
	March 14, 2013 \| Concordia NOW e.Scape Conference - Passion for Technology-Integrated Learning Course design will be the focus of a workshop at e.SCAPE featuring Joanne Locke, associate-dean, academic programs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Anne Wade, manager and information specialist in the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance. Together they created an online version of Introduction to Library Research Practices, a course that develops information-literacy skills. Read more
	February 5, 2013 \| GSDE 2013 website Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education The GSDE committee invite you to submit a proposal for the Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education on Friday, April 19, 2013. The theme of the conference is Making the Connection: Theory, Research, and Practice. The Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education aims to make connections between educational theory, research, and practice by bringing together researchers and practitioners from all areas of Education and related disciplines. The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, March 1, 2013 at 11:59 pm EST. Please visit the GSDE 2013 website for detailed information about the conference including a Frequently Asked Questions resource and to submit a proposal.
	February 5, 2013 \| MindShare Learning Dr. Richard Schmid as one of MindShare Learning's Top 10 EdTech Newsmakers for 2012 Department of Education Chairperson Dr. Richard Schmid highlighted as one of MindShare Learning's Top 10 Newsmakers of 2012 for his co-authorship of at 40-year retrospective study on the impact of technology in the classroom. Original story published in January 2012 via Concordia NOW.
	January 24, 2013 \| University Affairs Assistant Professor Venkatesh comments on high volume of responses to lecture vs. classroom technology study The UA article about his study received nearly 10,000 page views. The article also generated a high volume of online comments – some supportive of the conclusions, but many critical. Venkatesh was invited by UA journalist Léo Charbonneau to respond to some of these comments.
	December 17, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Daycare Double Duty "Parents are often unaware of the role that teacher education plays in providing high-quality care for children; they think that an attractive centre with a warm and nurturing teacher is sufficient," reports Professor Nina Howe. Her recent study suggests that parents ought to be more involved in the daycare experience as it is a major component of their children’s development. Read further coverage of this story by the Montreal Gazette.
	December 10, 2012 \| Concordia NOW ("Newsmakers" article) High Marks for Home Schooling Children who receive structured home-schooling significantly outperform public school children across a range of subjects. "In some instances, home-schooled children were five grade levels higher than those kids being taught in the public school," says Sandra Martin-Chang. When she went searching for facts, she found very little research on learning outcomes. This led her to conduct a study to compare 37 home-schooled children with 37 children in the public system. Read further coverage of this story on Concordia NOW ("What we do" article).
	November 21, 2012 Education/ECEE Science Fair Invitation to visit the Department of Education/ECEE Science Fair being held on November 26 from 6pm to 8pm in the LB building's atrium. Open to students, faculty, staff, friends and family.
	November 21, 2012 CBC's Spark with Nora Young: Heavy Metal Forums and Online Learning Associate Professor Vivek Venkatesh appeared on CBC’s Spark with Nora Young to discuss what online educators can learn from heavy metal forums. Listen to the podcast
	November 19, 2012 Putrid Deadagogy: Rethinking Public Pedagogy through Zombie Life The School of Graduate Studies, Department of Education and Department of Education Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Association are pleased to announce an invited lecture by Dr. Jason J. Wallin, Assistant Professor in Media and Youth Culture in Curriculum from the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. Wallin will be presenting - Putrid Deadagogy: Rethinking Public Pedagogy through Zombie Life - on December 18, 2013 at 10h30 at the de Sève cinema in the Library Building. Dr. Wallin has been invited to workshop ideas for a forthcoming book titled "Educational, Psychological and Behavioural Considerations in Niche Online Communities", to be published in 2014 by IGI Worldwide. Abstract: While sympathetic to interpretations that would cast the zombie as an analogy for the corporate exploitation of human and non-human life, this presentation will seek to steal back the import of the zombie as a social conductor irreducible to the ethically devoid or death-obsessed interpretations through which it has been thought. The intent of this rethinking pertains to detecting the potentials for resistance and experimental alterity inhering the concept and conceptualization of the zombie. Through the use of Deleuze\|Guattarian philosophy and the figure of the zombie as an image of thought, I will call into question a number of presuppositions and commitments in the field of public pedagogy research including a latent commitment to anthropocentrism, the reduction of difference to difference in identity, and the general attitude of negativity and disavowal operative within public pedagogy's interpretive approach. The key question as it pertains to this inquiry follows from the contemporary popularity of zombie performance and might be posed thus: What are people doing by becoming zombies? Dr. Wallin's website
	November 15, 2012 Information session about the Education Doctoral Program at Concordia University You are invited to attend an information session about the Education Doctoral Program at Concordia University on Wednesday, November 21 from 6pm to 7pm. We will be available for questions until 7:30. Department of Education, Library Building, Room LB-559-6.
	November 14, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Scholars Awards for Department of Education students The scholars are students who earned the highest grade point averages in each Arts and Science academic program during the 2011-12 academic year. They are among the top 1 per cent of a remarkable group of 800 students who are on the 2011-12 Dean's List for having achieved a GPA of 3.75 or higher. Most of the scholars have GPAs closer to the 4.0 range, with 11 students achieving a perfect average of 4.3. View photo of Department of Education recipients. Back row (from left to right): Brian Lewis (Dean of Arts & Science), Anne Chrétien (TESL), Sarina Conti (ECEE), Sophia Davoli (ECEE), Philippa Phaedra Hill (TESL), Laura Lo Vasco (ECEE), and Richard Schmid (Chair Department of Education). Front row (from left to right): Kristyn Vlahakis (ECEE), June An Ruivivar (TESL), Ashley Dunn (ECEE). Missing: Heather Franz (Child Studies BA) and Paige Podritske (Child Studies BA). Photo courtesy of PBL Photography.
	October 30, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Passing of the e-learning torch between two Department of Education professors Saul Carliner, director of the Education Doctoral Program and associate professor in the Department of Education, has been appointed as Concordia’s new E-Learning Fellow for the Centre for Teaching and Learning Services (CTLS). "Saul brings a wealth of experience to this position," says Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) before adding that Carliner has a strong reputation as an innovator in the education technology world. Carliner’s colleague, Vivek Venkatesh, who briefly held the E-Learning fellowship, was recently named Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Development at the School of Graduate Studies. Venkatesh will continue to serve as E-Learning Fellow for the School of Graduate Studies.
	October 23, 2012 \| The Concordian University buys 2 floors of the Faubourg Building Concordia University announced the $4.5 million purchase of the fifth and sixth floors of the Faubourg building in order to facilitate the Webster library’s expansion for an increase in available study space for students, last week. Story also published in The Link, with an editorial also
	October 22, 2012 \| Canada.com Assistant Professor Venkatesh's study of online environments makes headlines again Venkatesh contends that longitudinal data from niche online forums is the key to unlocking more effective ways of engaging students with technology. Story also published in The Vancouver Sun View previous news coverage about this study below (March 13, 2012 and March 23, 2012).
	October 11, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Students prefer lectures to tweets Surprising results of a study conducted by Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh showed that students were more appreciative of the literally "old school" approach of lectures and were less enthusiastic than teachers about using ICTs in classes. Instructors were more fluent with the use of emails than with social media, while the opposite was true for students. Read more about this story in ScienceBlog, Le Devoir, at Overclockers Club, in UWO's The Gazette, and in Direction informatique
	October 4, 2012 \| Concordia Now Pavel Trofimovich's study suggests we need to listen beyond the accent The work of associate professor and applied linguist Pavel Trofimovich, and his University of Bristol colleague, Talia Isaacs, tackles the tricky question of what distinguishes accented speech from speech that is difficult to understand. Their results show that accent and comprehensibility are overlapping yet distinct dimensions. Read more about this story on Global Montreal, in The Montreal Gazette, on Radio-Canada International and in the Ottawa Citizen.
	September 20, 2012 \| Concordia Now Saul Carliner's new book offers tools and tactics to promote informal learning Chatting by the water cooler? Online conversations? Both can be valuable "informal learning" experiences. In his recently published book Informal Learning Basics (ASTD Press, 2012), Associate Professor Carliner helps training and development professionals understand what constitutes informal learning and how to support it in the workplace.
	September 20, 2012 \| Concordia Now Concordia Celebrates Learn @ Work Week September 17 to 21 is Learn @ Work Week, an annual celebration sponsored by the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) to recognize the value of workplace learning and development. The week also honours the time and energy invested by employees to enhance their skills. "Training is seen as a door to advancement," says Associate Professor of Education Saul Carliner. "It invites sharing, networking and provides a rare opportunity for people to escape outside their silos and see the bigger picture."
	September 14, 2012 CECEEA's Welcome Back Info Event Thursday, September 20, 2-6pm in LB 553-6. All ECEE students and staff welcome! Drop in between 2pm and 6pm for coffee and meet your 2012-2013 CECEEA Council members. Ask questions. Sign up for programs and volunteer positions. Order ECEE apparel. Learn about upcoming events.
	September 12, 2012 Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Paula Wood-Adams, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Vivek Venkatesh as Associate Dean, Programs and Development, School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Venkatesh will be responsible for graduate program analysis and development, graduate curriculum, the GradProSkills program, and oversight ofthe newly re-designed INDI program. He will also work closely with the Provost’s Office and faculty in developing e-learning opportunities at the graduate level. Dr. Wood-Adams looks forward to working with Dr. Venkatesh on many exciting graduate curriculum initiatives in the coming year, and is confident that Vivek’s energy, commitment and vision will be a great asset to the decanal team of the School of Graduate Studies.
	September 11, 2012 Department of Education Meet and Greet For all new and returning MA and PhD students in the Department of Education. From 5-8pm on September 14 in MB 4.101 - 4.135. Applied Linguistics, Child Studies, Educational Studies and Educational Technology students, all are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. Presented thanks to a COI grant [ View poster ]
	September 11, 2012 Recchia's Study on Social Exclusion Makes National Headlines Conducted in collaboration with Beverly Brehl and Cecilia Wainryb at the University of Utah, Assistant Professor Holly Recchia's new study has taken a less conventional approach to social exclusion by asking children and adolescents to recall times that they left someone out, and to explain their reasons for doing so. The findings could help design better interventions for reducing social exclusion. [ Abstract from the British Psychology Society ] [ British Psychology Society blog... ] [ Blog from Chatelaine Daily... ] [ Podcast from Radio-Canada International... ]
	August 24, 2012 \| eConcordia News eConcordia Online Course Makes a Splash in Helsinki "This was a fabulous opportunity to discuss our experience in converting the Department of Education's popular service course entitled Introduction to Library Research Practices (INST 250) to an online format..." said Anne Wade, Manager and Information Specialist who recently returned from Helsinki where she participated at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress.
	July 16, 2012 \| Concordia Now Department of Education Ranks Among the QS World University Ranking Global Top 200 Published annually since 2004, the QS World University Rankings is the most trusted university ranking in the world. Its list of rankings by subject gives futures students an immediate understanding of which universities perform the best in 29 different subjects.
	July 11, 2012 \| Concordia Now Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh Named First E-learning Fellow The mandate of the new position includes promoting e-learning, or electronically supported learning, across all Faculties at Concordia. "Vivek’s role is really to help professors who are interested in doing so to make the transition between in-class learning and online learning," says Concordia's Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, Ollivier Dyens. "Beyond that it’s also to explore with these people all the possibilities that online learning provides."
	July 11, 2012 \| New Sounds 2013 website New Sounds Conference 2013 - Call for Submission Organized by the Concordia Department of Education, the New Sounds Conference gathers researchers from all over the world to discuss issues related to the teaching and learning of second/foreign language (L2) phonetics, phonology, and pronunciation. Call for submissions ongoing until December 2012
	June 6, 2012 \| Concordia Now Department of Education Professors Honored as University Research Awards Recipients Assistant Professor Ann-Louise Davidson received the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in the Strategic Research Cluster and Assistant Professor David Waddington received a University Research Award in the Person and Society Emerging Award. "I am delighted," said Waddington. "It's a fantastic feeling," said Davidson.
	May 23, 2012 \| Concordia Now Quebec announced funding in the amount of $497,816 to support a project to be undertaken by Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP). The project will allow for the development of a tool called Orienting the Emerging Literacy in Mathematics, intended for children in primary school. "We aim to develop tools that have a positive impact on education," said Centre director Philip Abrami.
	May 23, 2012 \| ICELW 2012 website Dr. Saul Carliner to present at ICELW 2012 The 5th annual ICELW 2012 conference on eLearning in the Workplace to be held in June at Columbia University in New York will bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world. Associate Professor Dr. Saul Carliner will take a look at research on informal learning and the implications for practicing professionals. Is informal learning the most natural way of learning for work, as some characterize it? The session will explore informal learning research and present nine insights that practitioners and researchers should consider when looking to promote and expand informal learning in workplaces.
	May 23, 2012 \| Concordia Now Assistant Professor Venkatesh merges educational research with his love for metal Venkatesh figured out a way to marry his love for heavy metal music to his educational research. The eureka moment came after a conversation with Blake Judd, lead singer for Nachtmystium, when they realized that heavy metal forums would provide a perfect case study for research into how people interact and learn in online environments.
	May 8, 2012 \| Phys.org website Professor Howe's research on parenting style and child behavior A study co-authored by Nina Howe and published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly shows a correlation between a father’s parenting style and a child’s behavior.
	March 13, 2012 All Hail Professor Metal Venkatesh explores heavy metal culture in his recent study of the social mores and folkways of heavy metal message boards "Technological Transparency in the Age of Web 2.0: A Case Study of Interactions in Internet-Based Forums," recently collected in the textbook Methodologies, Tools and New Developments for E-Learning. [ Decible Magazine article ] [ Podcast interview with The Back Row ]
	March 2, 2012 \| The Chronicle of Higher Education Associate Professor Waddington Takes the University of Phoenix to Task Waddington takes the University of Phoenix to task for the self-developed "completion rate" featured in the 2010 edition of its Annual Academic Report. Putting that completion rate next to the national figures "is not really a fair comparison," and "not fully honest" to run that alongside figures that are not comparable.
	February 28, 2012 \| Concordia Now Professor Pesco's research shows how parent questionnaire forecasts linguistic ability in children Pesco was eager to see if the LUI (Language Use Inventory) test results would hold down the line and perhaps result in fewer false positives than other measures of young children’s language. The results were promising.
	February 1, 2012 \| Concordia Now Helping Female Students Survive Childhood Abuse or Domestic Violence Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development.
	February 1, 2012 \| CTV News Montreal Chair of the Department Talks with CTV News About Technological Advancement in the Classroom Richard Schmid has been studying computers in the classroom for much of his career. He met with Paul Karwatsky to discuss a 40-year analysis of how technological advancements have changed school.
	November 1, 2011 \| SPEAQ Newsletter SPEAQ Board of Directors Award This year's recipient of the SPEAQ Board of Directors award is the Concordia TESL unit in the Department of Education. It was very difficult to single out just one professor or part-time instructor from Concordia's TESL team for it is the group's passion, continued support and contribution to SPEAQ that make them the worthy recipients. [ View photo ]
	April 29, 2011 \| Watch the video Dr. Waddington co-author of the Manifeste pour une école compétente Dr. David Waddington was one of the co-authors of Manifeste pour une école compétente, a defence of the recent educational reform in Québec. He speaks briefly about the science and technology education component of the reform in a YouTube video.
	April 11, 2011 \| Read more... Tragic passing of Dr. Gary Boyd Gary tragically passed away on April 3, 2011. Gary, a member of the Education Department and a founding father of the Educational Technology program, was, above all else, a humanitarian. His re-occurring theme was people helping people via social change, discourse, art and all other forms of good human expression. Gary spoke of these imperatives through his theory, but he also practiced them with consummate thought, gentleness, and wit. He was universally loved and admired. Contributions can be made via Advancement and Alumni Relations in honour of Gary Boyd. Please call 514-848-2424 ext. 3884 or www.giving.concordia.ca. Please specify it's in memory of Gary Boyd.
	April 4, 2011 \| Concordia Now Some Math Symbols are More Equal Than Others In this Concordia Journal article, Dr. Helena Osana discusses her involvement in a three-year research program funded by SSHRCC examining elementary school mathematics. More specifically, Dr. Osana's team is looking at students' misunderstanding of the equal sign, and how it affects their ability to solve non-standard problems.

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	May 15, 2013 \| Concordia NOW Department of Education rises to Top 150 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013 Stepping up from last year's ranking in the Top 200, the Department of Education now boasts of a rank in the Top 150. The QS World University Rankings by Subject are based on several factors including academic reputation, a survey of employers and citations per faculty. Launched in 2011, these rankings are an outgrowth of the QS World University Rankings, published annually since 2004. The expanded version aims to give future students an immediate understanding of which universities perform the best across 30 different subjects. Read more about QS World University Rankings
	May 6, 2013 New Sounds Symposium first North American edition to held at Concordia University New Sounds is an international conference for both language researchers and teachers to discuss issues concerning the acquisition of second/foreign language pronunciation (including speech perception and production). The Faculty of Arts and Science and the Department of Education are pleased to bring this exciting event to Concordia University. This three-day event will provide a meeting place for practitioners (language teachers, speech pathologists, materials designers) and theoretical and applied linguists to discuss issues concerning the acquisition of second/foreign language pronunciation. Read more
	May 2, 2013 Concordia University's Educational Technology program shines at ISPI Competition At the closing session of ISPI’s 2013 Performance Improvement Conference, Concordia University was announced as the winner of the 5th Annual ISPI Case Study Competition. This year’s competition included two outstanding teams, Concordia University and the University of New Mexico. This recognition was the crowning achievement in a journey that began this past January. A team of Master's students in Educational Technology engaged in the competition by forming a core team to take on the role of consultants in a simulation of an authentic consulting engagement with an authentic, but fictitious adventure – retail company, EAES, Inc. The team would meet weekly with the client played by Matt Donovan (founder and facilitator of the Case Study Competition). Over the course of the next three months, the team analyzed the work, worker, and workplace through a series of employee interviews and collection of organizational data. After collecting their data, the team submitted a written summary of their findings and recommendations, which they then presented to a panel of judges at the conference. The panel of judges took on the role of an Advisory Board for EAES, Inc., and evaluated each team’s proposal and presentation. This year’s panel of judges had over 110 years of experience and included Roger Addison, Ray Svenson, Anne Apking, and Eileen Banchoff. The judges acknowledged that both teams were thoughtful, professional, and clearly invested significant time in the experience. After careful consideration, the judges selected Concordia as the winner of the case competition. This win is a shining moment for the Concordia University Educational Technology program and the students involved. The team demonstrated their excellence and commitment to the field of Human Performance Technology. Congratulations to the students: Ryan Forster, Harry Kavallos, Stefan Krueger, Dahlia Radwan, Robert Leibner, Emily Sheepy, and Fei Shu. Special recognition also goes out to Sonia Di Maulo (faculty sponsor), Davina Davies and Rosanna Montoute, (advanced student support team) and Ann-Louise Davidson and Richard Schmid (faculty supervisors). Visit the CPSI Case Study Competition webpage
	May 1, 2013 \| Forbes The added value of informal interactions and informal learning Training customer service reps isn’t just a matter of classroom instruction. It requires on-the-job, informal training that happens in hallways and break rooms as well as during conversations with customers. "Formal and informal learning are interrelated processes that work together to build job performance," says Carliner. Read more
	April 22, 2013 \| CBC Montreal Schools shouldn't blindly integrate technology in the classroom Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh chats with CBC's Jeannette Kelly about importing new technologies to the classroom. "There is a large movement to digitizing because it's becomes such an integral part of our life, we would expect that it also becomes part of our education and training domain. But I think it's a mistake to subscribe to it in a blind fashion." Listen to the podcast
	April 9, 2013 \| Concordia University Magazine Designed to be Different - Education Department Featured in Concordia University Magazine Did you know that the Department of Education came to be in 1968 as an offshoot of Audio-Visual Services? Did you know that its status as a department (rather than a faculty) helped push researchers to raise their game. A full overview of the department in this spring's Concordia University Magazine Read more
	April 3, 2013 Book Launch in Celebration of International Adult Learners Week The Blossoming Roots project succeeded in bringing that wealth of knowledge to life by creating opportunities for the youth to explore that vital link between themselves and the elders, through the medium of oral history. Hourig Attarian is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Story-telling at Concordia University. Her work focuses on storying memory and identity through visual and narrative explorations. Read more
	March 18, 2013 \| Concordia Alumni Association Cognitive Ergonomics - What it is and how it can help you with your projects Cognitive ergonomics studies mental work. It’s main focus is to help specify user information needs (user requirements) and user interfaces. Cognitive ergonomics relies on an impressive body of knowledge that includes mental workload, decision-making, skilled performance, human-computer interaction, human reliability, work stress and training. This web conference will introduce the field and illustrate through two case studies how it may be applied to e-learning. It will also comment on recent technological developments such as tablets and Google glasses. Read more
	March 18, 2013 \| Concordia NOW You Always Hurt the Ones you Love Professor Holly Recchia's recent study suggests that conflict with our younger siblings and schoolyard conflict with friends both provide opportunities for learning about right and wrong which can help parents and educators to encourage children to use these situations as teachable moments. She is the co-author of a paper forthcoming in Child Development. Read more
	March 14, 2013 \| Concordia NOW e.Scape Conference - Passion for Technology-Integrated Learning Course design will be the focus of a workshop at e.SCAPE featuring Joanne Locke, associate-dean, academic programs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Anne Wade, manager and information specialist in the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance. Together they created an online version of Introduction to Library Research Practices, a course that develops information-literacy skills. Read more
	February 5, 2013 \| GSDE 2013 website Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education The GSDE committee invite you to submit a proposal for the Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education on Friday, April 19, 2013. The theme of the conference is Making the Connection: Theory, Research, and Practice. The Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education aims to make connections between educational theory, research, and practice by bringing together researchers and practitioners from all areas of Education and related disciplines. The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, March 1, 2013 at 11:59 pm EST. Please visit the GSDE 2013 website for detailed information about the conference including a Frequently Asked Questions resource and to submit a proposal.
	February 5, 2013 \| MindShare Learning Dr. Richard Schmid as one of MindShare Learning's Top 10 EdTech Newsmakers for 2012 Department of Education Chairperson Dr. Richard Schmid highlighted as one of MindShare Learning's Top 10 Newsmakers of 2012 for his co-authorship of at 40-year retrospective study on the impact of technology in the classroom. Original story published in January 2012 via Concordia NOW.
	January 24, 2013 \| University Affairs Assistant Professor Venkatesh comments on high volume of responses to lecture vs. classroom technology study The UA article about his study received nearly 10,000 page views. The article also generated a high volume of online comments – some supportive of the conclusions, but many critical. Venkatesh was invited by UA journalist Léo Charbonneau to respond to some of these comments.
	December 17, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Daycare Double Duty "Parents are often unaware of the role that teacher education plays in providing high-quality care for children; they think that an attractive centre with a warm and nurturing teacher is sufficient," reports Professor Nina Howe. Her recent study suggests that parents ought to be more involved in the daycare experience as it is a major component of their children’s development. Read further coverage of this story by the Montreal Gazette.
	December 10, 2012 \| Concordia NOW ("Newsmakers" article) High Marks for Home Schooling Children who receive structured home-schooling significantly outperform public school children across a range of subjects. "In some instances, home-schooled children were five grade levels higher than those kids being taught in the public school," says Sandra Martin-Chang. When she went searching for facts, she found very little research on learning outcomes. This led her to conduct a study to compare 37 home-schooled children with 37 children in the public system. Read further coverage of this story on Concordia NOW ("What we do" article).
	November 21, 2012 Education/ECEE Science Fair Invitation to visit the Department of Education/ECEE Science Fair being held on November 26 from 6pm to 8pm in the LB building's atrium. Open to students, faculty, staff, friends and family.
	November 21, 2012 CBC's Spark with Nora Young: Heavy Metal Forums and Online Learning Associate Professor Vivek Venkatesh appeared on CBC’s Spark with Nora Young to discuss what online educators can learn from heavy metal forums. Listen to the podcast
	November 19, 2012 Putrid Deadagogy: Rethinking Public Pedagogy through Zombie Life The School of Graduate Studies, Department of Education and Department of Education Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Association are pleased to announce an invited lecture by Dr. Jason J. Wallin, Assistant Professor in Media and Youth Culture in Curriculum from the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. Wallin will be presenting - Putrid Deadagogy: Rethinking Public Pedagogy through Zombie Life - on December 18, 2013 at 10h30 at the de Sève cinema in the Library Building. Dr. Wallin has been invited to workshop ideas for a forthcoming book titled "Educational, Psychological and Behavioural Considerations in Niche Online Communities", to be published in 2014 by IGI Worldwide. Abstract: While sympathetic to interpretations that would cast the zombie as an analogy for the corporate exploitation of human and non-human life, this presentation will seek to steal back the import of the zombie as a social conductor irreducible to the ethically devoid or death-obsessed interpretations through which it has been thought. The intent of this rethinking pertains to detecting the potentials for resistance and experimental alterity inhering the concept and conceptualization of the zombie. Through the use of Deleuze\|Guattarian philosophy and the figure of the zombie as an image of thought, I will call into question a number of presuppositions and commitments in the field of public pedagogy research including a latent commitment to anthropocentrism, the reduction of difference to difference in identity, and the general attitude of negativity and disavowal operative within public pedagogy's interpretive approach. The key question as it pertains to this inquiry follows from the contemporary popularity of zombie performance and might be posed thus: What are people doing by becoming zombies? Dr. Wallin's website
	November 15, 2012 Information session about the Education Doctoral Program at Concordia University You are invited to attend an information session about the Education Doctoral Program at Concordia University on Wednesday, November 21 from 6pm to 7pm. We will be available for questions until 7:30. Department of Education, Library Building, Room LB-559-6.
	November 14, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Scholars Awards for Department of Education students The scholars are students who earned the highest grade point averages in each Arts and Science academic program during the 2011-12 academic year. They are among the top 1 per cent of a remarkable group of 800 students who are on the 2011-12 Dean's List for having achieved a GPA of 3.75 or higher. Most of the scholars have GPAs closer to the 4.0 range, with 11 students achieving a perfect average of 4.3. View photo of Department of Education recipients. Back row (from left to right): Brian Lewis (Dean of Arts & Science), Anne Chrétien (TESL), Sarina Conti (ECEE), Sophia Davoli (ECEE), Philippa Phaedra Hill (TESL), Laura Lo Vasco (ECEE), and Richard Schmid (Chair Department of Education). Front row (from left to right): Kristyn Vlahakis (ECEE), June An Ruivivar (TESL), Ashley Dunn (ECEE). Missing: Heather Franz (Child Studies BA) and Paige Podritske (Child Studies BA). Photo courtesy of PBL Photography.
	October 30, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Passing of the e-learning torch between two Department of Education professors Saul Carliner, director of the Education Doctoral Program and associate professor in the Department of Education, has been appointed as Concordia’s new E-Learning Fellow for the Centre for Teaching and Learning Services (CTLS). "Saul brings a wealth of experience to this position," says Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) before adding that Carliner has a strong reputation as an innovator in the education technology world. Carliner’s colleague, Vivek Venkatesh, who briefly held the E-Learning fellowship, was recently named Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Development at the School of Graduate Studies. Venkatesh will continue to serve as E-Learning Fellow for the School of Graduate Studies.
	October 23, 2012 \| The Concordian University buys 2 floors of the Faubourg Building Concordia University announced the $4.5 million purchase of the fifth and sixth floors of the Faubourg building in order to facilitate the Webster library’s expansion for an increase in available study space for students, last week. Story also published in The Link, with an editorial also
	October 22, 2012 \| Canada.com Assistant Professor Venkatesh's study of online environments makes headlines again Venkatesh contends that longitudinal data from niche online forums is the key to unlocking more effective ways of engaging students with technology. Story also published in The Vancouver Sun View previous news coverage about this study below (March 13, 2012 and March 23, 2012).
	October 11, 2012 \| Concordia NOW Students prefer lectures to tweets Surprising results of a study conducted by Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh showed that students were more appreciative of the literally "old school" approach of lectures and were less enthusiastic than teachers about using ICTs in classes. Instructors were more fluent with the use of emails than with social media, while the opposite was true for students. Read more about this story in ScienceBlog, Le Devoir, at Overclockers Club, in UWO's The Gazette, and in Direction informatique
	October 4, 2012 \| Concordia Now Pavel Trofimovich's study suggests we need to listen beyond the accent The work of associate professor and applied linguist Pavel Trofimovich, and his University of Bristol colleague, Talia Isaacs, tackles the tricky question of what distinguishes accented speech from speech that is difficult to understand. Their results show that accent and comprehensibility are overlapping yet distinct dimensions. Read more about this story on Global Montreal, in The Montreal Gazette, on Radio-Canada International and in the Ottawa Citizen.
	September 20, 2012 \| Concordia Now Saul Carliner's new book offers tools and tactics to promote informal learning Chatting by the water cooler? Online conversations? Both can be valuable "informal learning" experiences. In his recently published book Informal Learning Basics (ASTD Press, 2012), Associate Professor Carliner helps training and development professionals understand what constitutes informal learning and how to support it in the workplace.
	September 20, 2012 \| Concordia Now Concordia Celebrates Learn @ Work Week September 17 to 21 is Learn @ Work Week, an annual celebration sponsored by the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) to recognize the value of workplace learning and development. The week also honours the time and energy invested by employees to enhance their skills. "Training is seen as a door to advancement," says Associate Professor of Education Saul Carliner. "It invites sharing, networking and provides a rare opportunity for people to escape outside their silos and see the bigger picture."
	September 14, 2012 CECEEA's Welcome Back Info Event Thursday, September 20, 2-6pm in LB 553-6. All ECEE students and staff welcome! Drop in between 2pm and 6pm for coffee and meet your 2012-2013 CECEEA Council members. Ask questions. Sign up for programs and volunteer positions. Order ECEE apparel. Learn about upcoming events.
	September 12, 2012 Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Paula Wood-Adams, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Vivek Venkatesh as Associate Dean, Programs and Development, School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Venkatesh will be responsible for graduate program analysis and development, graduate curriculum, the GradProSkills program, and oversight ofthe newly re-designed INDI program. He will also work closely with the Provost’s Office and faculty in developing e-learning opportunities at the graduate level. Dr. Wood-Adams looks forward to working with Dr. Venkatesh on many exciting graduate curriculum initiatives in the coming year, and is confident that Vivek’s energy, commitment and vision will be a great asset to the decanal team of the School of Graduate Studies.
	September 11, 2012 Department of Education Meet and Greet For all new and returning MA and PhD students in the Department of Education. From 5-8pm on September 14 in MB 4.101 - 4.135. Applied Linguistics, Child Studies, Educational Studies and Educational Technology students, all are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. Presented thanks to a COI grant [ View poster ]
	September 11, 2012 Recchia's Study on Social Exclusion Makes National Headlines Conducted in collaboration with Beverly Brehl and Cecilia Wainryb at the University of Utah, Assistant Professor Holly Recchia's new study has taken a less conventional approach to social exclusion by asking children and adolescents to recall times that they left someone out, and to explain their reasons for doing so. The findings could help design better interventions for reducing social exclusion. [ Abstract from the British Psychology Society ] [ British Psychology Society blog... ] [ Blog from Chatelaine Daily... ] [ Podcast from Radio-Canada International... ]
	August 24, 2012 \| eConcordia News eConcordia Online Course Makes a Splash in Helsinki "This was a fabulous opportunity to discuss our experience in converting the Department of Education's popular service course entitled Introduction to Library Research Practices (INST 250) to an online format..." said Anne Wade, Manager and Information Specialist who recently returned from Helsinki where she participated at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress.
	July 16, 2012 \| Concordia Now Department of Education Ranks Among the QS World University Ranking Global Top 200 Published annually since 2004, the QS World University Rankings is the most trusted university ranking in the world. Its list of rankings by subject gives futures students an immediate understanding of which universities perform the best in 29 different subjects.
	July 11, 2012 \| Concordia Now Assistant Professor Vivek Venkatesh Named First E-learning Fellow The mandate of the new position includes promoting e-learning, or electronically supported learning, across all Faculties at Concordia. "Vivek’s role is really to help professors who are interested in doing so to make the transition between in-class learning and online learning," says Concordia's Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, Ollivier Dyens. "Beyond that it’s also to explore with these people all the possibilities that online learning provides."
	July 11, 2012 \| New Sounds 2013 website New Sounds Conference 2013 - Call for Submission Organized by the Concordia Department of Education, the New Sounds Conference gathers researchers from all over the world to discuss issues related to the teaching and learning of second/foreign language (L2) phonetics, phonology, and pronunciation. Call for submissions ongoing until December 2012
	June 6, 2012 \| Concordia Now Department of Education Professors Honored as University Research Awards Recipients Assistant Professor Ann-Louise Davidson received the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in the Strategic Research Cluster and Assistant Professor David Waddington received a University Research Award in the Person and Society Emerging Award. "I am delighted," said Waddington. "It's a fantastic feeling," said Davidson.
	May 23, 2012 \| Concordia Now Quebec announced funding in the amount of $497,816 to support a project to be undertaken by Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP). The project will allow for the development of a tool called Orienting the Emerging Literacy in Mathematics, intended for children in primary school. "We aim to develop tools that have a positive impact on education," said Centre director Philip Abrami.
	May 23, 2012 \| ICELW 2012 website Dr. Saul Carliner to present at ICELW 2012 The 5th annual ICELW 2012 conference on eLearning in the Workplace to be held in June at Columbia University in New York will bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world. Associate Professor Dr. Saul Carliner will take a look at research on informal learning and the implications for practicing professionals. Is informal learning the most natural way of learning for work, as some characterize it? The session will explore informal learning research and present nine insights that practitioners and researchers should consider when looking to promote and expand informal learning in workplaces.
	May 23, 2012 \| Concordia Now Assistant Professor Venkatesh merges educational research with his love for metal Venkatesh figured out a way to marry his love for heavy metal music to his educational research. The eureka moment came after a conversation with Blake Judd, lead singer for Nachtmystium, when they realized that heavy metal forums would provide a perfect case study for research into how people interact and learn in online environments.
	May 8, 2012 \| Phys.org website Professor Howe's research on parenting style and child behavior A study co-authored by Nina Howe and published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly shows a correlation between a father’s parenting style and a child’s behavior.
	March 13, 2012 All Hail Professor Metal Venkatesh explores heavy metal culture in his recent study of the social mores and folkways of heavy metal message boards "Technological Transparency in the Age of Web 2.0: A Case Study of Interactions in Internet-Based Forums," recently collected in the textbook Methodologies, Tools and New Developments for E-Learning. [ Decible Magazine article ] [ Podcast interview with The Back Row ]
	March 2, 2012 \| The Chronicle of Higher Education Associate Professor Waddington Takes the University of Phoenix to Task Waddington takes the University of Phoenix to task for the self-developed "completion rate" featured in the 2010 edition of its Annual Academic Report. Putting that completion rate next to the national figures "is not really a fair comparison," and "not fully honest" to run that alongside figures that are not comparable.
	February 28, 2012 \| Concordia Now Professor Pesco's research shows how parent questionnaire forecasts linguistic ability in children Pesco was eager to see if the LUI (Language Use Inventory) test results would hold down the line and perhaps result in fewer false positives than other measures of young children’s language. The results were promising.
	February 1, 2012 \| Concordia Now Helping Female Students Survive Childhood Abuse or Domestic Violence Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development.
	February 1, 2012 \| CTV News Montreal Chair of the Department Talks with CTV News About Technological Advancement in the Classroom Richard Schmid has been studying computers in the classroom for much of his career. He met with Paul Karwatsky to discuss a 40-year analysis of how technological advancements have changed school.
	November 1, 2011 \| SPEAQ Newsletter SPEAQ Board of Directors Award This year's recipient of the SPEAQ Board of Directors award is the Concordia TESL unit in the Department of Education. It was very difficult to single out just one professor or part-time instructor from Concordia's TESL team for it is the group's passion, continued support and contribution to SPEAQ that make them the worthy recipients. [ View photo ]
	April 29, 2011 \| Watch the video Dr. Waddington co-author of the Manifeste pour une école compétente Dr. David Waddington was one of the co-authors of Manifeste pour une école compétente, a defence of the recent educational reform in Québec. He speaks briefly about the science and technology education component of the reform in a YouTube video.
	April 11, 2011 \| Read more... Tragic passing of Dr. Gary Boyd Gary tragically passed away on April 3, 2011. Gary, a member of the Education Department and a founding father of the Educational Technology program, was, above all else, a humanitarian. His re-occurring theme was people helping people via social change, discourse, art and all other forms of good human expression. Gary spoke of these imperatives through his theory, but he also practiced them with consummate thought, gentleness, and wit. He was universally loved and admired. Contributions can be made via Advancement and Alumni Relations in honour of Gary Boyd. Please call 514-848-2424 ext. 3884 or www.giving.concordia.ca. Please specify it's in memory of Gary Boyd.
	April 4, 2011 \| Concordia Now Some Math Symbols are More Equal Than Others In this Concordia Journal article, Dr. Helena Osana discusses her involvement in a three-year research program funded by SSHRCC examining elementary school mathematics. More specifically, Dr. Osana's team is looking at students' misunderstanding of the equal sign, and how it affects their ability to solve non-standard problems.

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