SIG Instructional Technology Spring 2025 Newsletter!

We are very excited to share the latest edition of our newsletter with you! This edition covers:

  • SIG Instructional Technology Updates
    • Message from the SIG Chair
    • 2025 SIG IT Awards
    • 2025 SIG IT Travel Scholarships
    • AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Program News
    • Community Building
  • Our Members: Awards, Grants, and Professional Accomplishments
  • What are Our SIG IT Members Reading?
  • SIG Instructional Technology Members Spotlights!

Read the newsletter here: tiny.utk.edu/SIGIT_Spring2025_Newsletter

Thank you for being part of our community!

Critical Conversations in Online Education: a Deep Dive into the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online Book

Last year, I received an email from Dr. Rocio Jimenez Cortes, a full professor at Universidad de Sevilla, to do a plenary presentation as part of the II FORO TRANSDISCIPLINAR FORO DONNA: Tecnologías y Medios para un Futuro en Igualdad” Conference. FORO DONNA is a virtual conference that focuses on:

A space for national and international dialogue around experiences and research that address and generate knowledge about the impact of digital technologies and media on gender equality and women’s well-being.

I decided to focus the plenary on a discussion about a forthcoming book that my colleagues and I co-editing titled Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. With that in mind, I invited several of the book chapter authors to join the plenary session and together we embarked on a wonderful journey!

Our plenary is titled: “Critical Conversations in Online Education: a Deep Dive into the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online Book”. You can watch the plenary presentation on YouTube:

Presenters:
Niya Bond (University of Maine): Using Feminist Pedagogy to (Re)Imagine Online Classrooms (Introduction)

Bridget Kriner (Cuyoga Community College): Building Participatory Spaces in Online Classrooms (Chapter 5)

Ashley Glassburn (University of Windsor): Consciousness Raising and Trauma-Informed Practice (Chapter 7)

Dr. Nandita Gurjar, Ph.D. (Rhode Island College): Humanizing Online Learning with Feminist Pedagogy (Chapter 9)

Nadia Jaramillo Cherrez (Oregon State University): Care, Identity, and Empowerment in Emergency Remotely Teaching (Chapter 11)

Enilda Romero-Hall, Ph.D. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Online Feminist Pedagogy: Future Learning Experiences Speculated (Conclusion)

AERA SIG IT Graduate Student ​Travel Scholarship Recipients (2025)

The SIG Instructional Technology (IT) will once again offer Travel Scholarships to the top 10 proposals where a graduate student is the first author. The SIG Instructional Technology Graduate Student Travel Scholarship aims to alleviate the cost of attending the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting. More importantly, it serves as an honor for us to recognize these emerging scholars.

The following graduate students were (1) selected as recipients, (2) accepted the scholarship, and (3) submitted the required information:

Congratulations to all the SIG Instructional Technology Graduate Student Travel Scholarship recipients!

To learn more about the AERA SIG Instructional Technology: https://www.aera.net/SIG052/Instructional-Technology-SIG-Welcome

Almost Two Weeks Later, Still Soaking It All In

Final thoughts and message from our official study abroad blogger: Marquis Holley. Love how Marquis captured complete and totally random moments, objects, scenes, and people from our study abroad experience in his photos. I think his writing and images show his background in communication and instructional design. It fills my heart with joy to know that this short experience will have a lasting effect in him as a participant in the program.

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It’s hard to believe, but this week will mark two weeks since we’ve all returned from Switzerland.  What a journey it was.  Here are a few more images to provide a closure of sorts for our trip.  We’re truly thankful for you following us, as well as your commentary.  Please know that education was the reason we as students decided to study abroad, and we learned more than we could imagine on this trip.  Special thanks to the University of Tampa for allowing this trip to take place.  Furthermore, the Instructors that accompanied us during this trip are to be commended. Much appreciation to Mr. Frederic Palazy, CIS representative, as a true help and guide during our stay here.  And to all of the teachers, students, administrators, and people we met on this trip, much love and gratitude to you for making it one to remember for a lifetime.  Once…

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