Category: Learning Design and Technology

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Five Education faculty honored as top teachers

Purdue University College of Education faculty continue to contribute to the university’s land grant mission by demonstrating excellence in the classroom. This fall, Purdue honored five Education faculty with two of Purdue’s top teaching honors. Three Education faculty were named to...
Victoria Lowell

Lowell to receive AECT Best Practices Award for prospective instructor mentorship program

Strategic mentoring of new teaching faculty could allow online educational programs to grow and expand capacity, save money, and ensure that students receive high-quality instruction, according to Victoria Lowell, clinical professor of Learning Design and Technology (LDT) in the Purdue...
Science student examining 3D Insect image using AR application on an iPad

Emerging Technologies in Learning Design & Technology and Envision Center to hold extended reality workshops

Faculty from the Purdue University College of Education will lead a new, collaborative, three-part workshop series this fall on using emerging technologies in learning design and technology. Victoria Lowell, clinical professor of Learning Design and Technology in the College of...
Karen J. Foli and Wanju Huang

Education, Nursing faculty collaborate on Dept. of HHS grant to improve graduate nursing education

Faculty members from the Purdue University College of Education, the School of Nursing and the College of Health and Human Sciences have received a U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant...
Three LDT students standing outside of the Hanna Center smiling at the camera.

Using AR to promote learning at local after school program

A team of Purdue educators are using augmented reality (AR) to promote environmental sustainability among underrepresented students at a local after school program in Lafayette, Indiana. William R. Watson, professor of learning design and technology (LDT) in the College of...
Victoria Lowell

Lowell awarded Office of the Provost’s Innovation Hub Grant

A College of Education faculty member was awarded a Purdue University Office of the Provost Innovation Hub Grant for her project to assist faculty in understanding and implementing extended reality (XR) technologies in their instructional practice.