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Please like the Ohio Education Research Center on Facebook!

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Please like the Ohio Education Research Center on Facebook! The OERC is a collaborative of Ohio-based researchers from six universities and five research institutions. Our mission is to develop and implement a statewide, preschool-through-workforce research agenda to address critical issues of education practice and policy. Stay up to date with our Facebook page and website to learn about our current research and upcoming events.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides fellowships for graduating U.S. college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study abroad for one academic year.  Recent B.S./B.A. graduate, master’s students, doctoral candidates, young professionals and artists can apply for these opportunities for personal development and international experience.

Recipients will plan their own programs involving university course work, independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination.  You can apply through the Ohio State Graduate School. Please visit http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (DDRA)

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The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (DDRA) offers grants for graduate students to travel for specific research, study opportunities, or dissertation research in modern foreign languages and specific area studies conducted in another country. This program is administered through the Ohio State Office of International Affairs. You can apply through International Affairs. Please visit http://oia.ohio-state.edu

 

DACUM and SCID workshop

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DACUM  (Developing A CurriculUM) will be held May 6-10. This is a training activity in which the trainees become certified as DACUM Facilitators, which prepares students to conduct two-day job/occupational analysis workshops for companies or educators. All OSU students are entitled to a 50% discount, which brings the normal $1550 registration fee down to $775.

Additionally, the SCID (Systematic Curriculum and Instructional Development) workshop allows OSU students a 50% discount, which brings the $1450 registration fee down to $725.  This workshop will help trainers and post-secondary instructors to conduct a needs analysis, task verification, task analysis, develop a competency profile, and develop competency-based instructional materials. 

You can find more details including a registration form and some sample materials at www.dacumohiostate.com  or you can call Dr. Robert E. Norton at 292-8481.

 

 

Spring into service with Pay It Forward’s weekly service trips

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Pay It Forward, a student cohort within the Office of Student Life, will offer weekly service opportunities for Ohio State students including mentoring, meal serving, donation sorting, and community beautification throughout Columbus. Students can sign up with friends and can attend one or multiple trips. Please contact el-khoury.7@osu.edu or visit http://www.go.osu.edu/payitforwardweeklyservicetrips

The second workshop on learning technologies in the developing world

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The second workshop on learning technologies in the developing world will be held in Memphis, Tennessee in conjunction with AIED 2013 (16th International Conference in Artificial Intelligence in Education). The conference has announced its call for papers. The submission deadline is April 20, 2013 and you will be notified by May 20, 2013.

The actual workshop will take place from July 9 to July 10 and aims to provide a forum for discussion about sensible introduction of learning technologies in the developing world and cross-cultural differences between countries, across and within developed and developing countries. The focus of the workshop is to explore a variety of aspects related to LT4D, and invites paper submissions that will address one or more of topics including: Cross-cultural differences in educational outcomes of AIED systems, ideas to solve issues of economic cost of adapting technologies to developing countries, examples of Localization and Cultural translation of systems and interfaces, and science of sustainable design of learning technologies for the developing world and others.

Please visit http://cadmium.cs.umass.edu/LT4D/Welcome.html for more information.

Summer job opportunity

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Camp Sequoia is an overnight summer camp in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania (1 hour from Philadelphia) for boys who need help improving their social skills. The camp is looking for activity specialists who can confidently instruct any of the following activities including: Martial Arts, Forensic Science, Cooking, Art, Model Building, Audio Production, Magic, Ceramics, Fishing and Nature/Scouting Skills. Also, openings for male general counselors (there are no openings for female general counselors) are available.

Staff must be available to work during June 24th -August 12th. Experience working with kids is necessary.

For more information, email office@camp-sequoia.com or visit their website: www.camp-sequoia.com

 

Matthew Borello works for the College of EHE Career Services Department

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I work for the College of EHE Career Services Dept.  My responsibilities include program development by assessing what career searching/development information may be useful to students within the college, designing and developing a program that will meet those informational needs through an individual or collaborative effort, implementing and presenting the program through a workshop or information sessions, and evaluating the program and adjusting if necessary.  I also conduct one-on-one resume reviews with the College of EHE students.

MatttThe Corporate Training and Development major has assisted me with many different areas of knowledge and skills development that I can directly implement into my position with the College of EHE.  Extensive training with ADDIE has helped to give me the ability to develop and present information in a more efficient and effective manner. I also have applied training needs analyses on several different occasions while collaborating with my department coordinator to develop program ideas that can be useful within the career services department.

I am very satisfied with my decision to pursue this major, and I look forward to the opportunities CTD will bring me in the future in both my professional and personal development. 

Join a Trip to Highlander Research and Education Center!

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Join a trip to the Highlander Research and Education Center, May 14-17, 2013 in New Market, Tennessee! This center is aims to examine leadership through a popular education and action lens; to share our stories about women’s leadership vision; and to use popular education and arts to embody leadership themes and stories.

The all-inclusive cost is $605 including travel or $405 if you travel on your own. You may call Dr. Shelly Dudka for more information at 765-702-4789 and register at www.bsu.edu/forms/bbc/highlander13

 

 

Correction to our last newsletter

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We previously reported that Senior Lecturer, Dr. Sanghamitra Chaudhuri received the Elwood F. Holton III Research Excellence Award with Dr. Sunny Munn. Actually, Dr. Sanghamitra Chaudhuri received the Elwood F. Holton III Research Excellence Award with Dr. Rajashi Ghosh at Drexel University and presented “Work-life Balance in India and the U.S.: A Cross-Cultural Literature Review of Dual Earner Couples” with Dr. Sunny Munn.