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 […]
[CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – CLIEDE2017: Connecting Language, Interaction and Education in Digital Environments]
A workshop entitled Connecting Language, Interaction and Education in Digital Environments (CLIEDE 2017) will be held at Penn State University, September 26-27, 2017. The theme of the workshop is the future of digital education environments designed to engage students in learning of written and oral skills in their native language, and to support teachers in offering learning opportunities […]
Trabasso YIA final reminder
This is the final reminder about nominations for the Tom Trabasso YIA. Nominations are due this Friday, June 9. Nominations are invited for the Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award of the Society for Text and Discourse. The Award honors early-career scholars who have contributed in an exceptional and innovative way to the progress of discourse […]
2017 Conference registration open
Registration for the 2017 conference of the Society for Text and Discourse is now open. To find out about the conference and begin the registration process, follow this link: http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/conferences/std-2017-conference/ Before you register, you can read about the conference dinner and the two optional pre-conference workshops. Also remember that registration is much cheaper if you […]
Nominations for Ozwald-Külpe prize
2017 Oswald-Külpe-Prize for the Experimental Study of Higher Mental Processes Honoring the great tradition of the Würzburg School of Psychology and its founder Oswald Külpe, the University of Würzburg invites nominations for its Oswald-Külpe-Prize, which is conferred biennially in a special ceremony. The purpose of the award is to recognize exceptional scientific contributions to the […]