The Society for Text & Discourse is again pleased to offer Student Travel Awards to assist student members of ST&D to attend the 2019 annual meeting in New York City. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent doctorate students are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who are presenting a poster […]
Postdoctoral Positions at Arizona State University
The Department of Psychology at Arizona State University (JOB# 12911) invites applications for three Postdoctoral Research Scholar positions in the Science of Learning and Educational Technologies (SoLET) Laboratory directed by Danielle McNamara. The postdoctoral research scholars will be working on projects funded by the IES and ONR to (a) design and develop tutoring modules and […]
NSF #MySTEMspark Social Media Campaign
Starting today until Dec. 7, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be running a social media campaign — #MySTEMspark — that invites our communities and the broader general public to share a moment that sparked their curiosity or interest in STEM. Maybe it was a movie or documentary you watched, or an experiment you did […]
ST&D 2019: New York City, USA – July 9-11, 2019
The Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse will be held in New York City, USA; July 9 to July 11, 2019. The conference will be held at The New School campus, located at 72 5th Avenue, New York, NY USA. The submission page for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text […]
Updates on NSF SBE Funding
Notes on NSF SBE Funding from FABBS Executive Director Paula Skedsvold, JD PhD As you may recall from the initial release of the President’s budget request on Feb. 12th, the President would provide roughly flat funding to NSF, that is after adding back funding through the Addendum to the budget. See page 148 of the […]
Call for Papers: 2018 EC-TEL
2018 European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning https://easychair.org/cfp/ectel2018 The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. This year’s theme is ‘Lifelong technology enhanced learning: Dealing with the complexity of 21st century challenges’. We live in an increasingly digital and globalized […]
2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
The Society for Text & Discourse is proud to announce its Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting to be held in Brighton, UK, July 17 – July 19, 2018. The conference will be held at the Hilton Brighton Metropole. We invite students and scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, learning sciences, and others) to attend and participate […]
Job Announcement: Georgia State University
Professor or Associate Professor of Adult Literacy – Georgia State University As part of Georgia State University’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), we anticipate faculty openings for two scholars with established external funding and research in adult literacy. The 2CI program focuses on expanding the university’s priority research areas and includes support (start-up funding) and funded […]
Job announcement: University of Utah
The Department of Educational Psychology (http://ed-psych.utah.edu/) in the College of Education at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with primary responsibilities in Statistics and/or Measurement in the Learning Sciences program. The Learning Sciences program offers undergraduate and graduate instruction in the areas of learning, cognition, and […]
NSF report on value of SBES to national priorities
The Value of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences to National Priorities: A Report for the National Science Foundation This new publication from the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education concludes that the social, behavioral, and economic sciences advance the missions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies and serve well many […]