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SOE Featured Project & New project
SOE Featured Project by Dr. Barbara Lockee
Former AECT President
Barbara Lockee with Anaheim convention planning team
Aug. 22, 2013 – SOE Associate Director Barbara Lockee recently completed her service as President
of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). During her four-year term,
she engaged in many activities related to the support and development of the organization.
One of the activities she led relates to the establishment of affiliations with international organizations in
Canada, Taiwan, and China. Specifically, the organizations with whom partnerships were developed are
the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE), the Taiwan Association for Educational
Communication and Technology (TAECT), and the Chinese Association for Educational
Communications and Technology (CAECT). Researchers and practitioners from these international
organizations will bring activities, trends, and issues from their countries and share their own insights
and perspectives, informing the work of the general AECT membership, and broadening perspectives on
systems and strategies for the enhancement of teaching and learning.
Another effort Barbara took on during her presidential term that continues to this day is the AECT
HistoryMakers Project. This initiative began as a grassroots effort to preserve the legacy of the IDT field
through establishing an archive of video interviews with its leaders. Several interviews had been
recorded prior to her term, but no mechanism existed for sharing them. The team at VT (two very
talented IDT doctoral students, Kibong Song and Wei Li) created a searchable web-based library of
these videos that now contains over 25 interviews. Additionally, Barbara has traveled throughout the
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country to interview some of the great contributors to the IDT field. This past year she was awarded an
internal grant from AECT to pursue the continuing development of this archive.
In another effort to recognize key leaders in the IDT field, Barbara established two new award programs.
The Jerrold Kemp Endowed Lecture Series was created to acknowledge individuals for innovations in
research or best practices in the area of instructional design. The David H. Jonnasen Excellence in
Research Award was developed to recognize those who have demonstrated a long-term record of
excellence in research to the field of instructional design and technology, in honor and memory of David
who passed away in December 2012. Barbara hopes these awards will help to preserve the legacy of
these colleagues who have done so much to advance knowledge and practice in creating effective
learning solutions.
HistoryMakers interview session with former AECT President Walt Wittich at his home in Sun City, AZ.
Walt is 102! He wrote one of the earliest texts in the field of educational media and still has great
intellectual curiosity and a wonderful sense of humor.
SOE New project by Dr. Hicks
As part of a subcontract to UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. David Hicks in collaboration with Dr. Todd Ogle was
awarded $58,916 in support of the project, Transatlantic Teacher Scholars: Change Over Time and
Place in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, A proposal to the American Battle Monuments
Commission (ABMC).
The Department of Learning Sciences and Technologies (LST) welcomes two new Fulbright students in
the Instructional Design and Technology Program: Helen Hendaria Kamandhari is a doctoral student
from Indonesia and Cathy James-Springer is a doctoral student from St. Lucia.
SEAD Science, Engineering, Art, and Design (SEAD) grants funded by ICAT:
Studio Stem, Michael Evans
Opera Craft, Kelly Parkes
HipHop 2020, Joycelyn Wilson
Kelly Parkes' publication and international presentations:
Parkes, K.A. & Daniel, R. (2013). Motivations impacting upon music instrument teachers'
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decisions to teach and perform in higher education. British Journal of Music Education, 1-18 First
view online, doi:10.1017/S0265051713000193
Parkes, K. A. (2013, July). (1) Assessment in One-to-One Music Lesson Studios and (2)
Evaluating Teaching Quality of Tertiary Music Faculty (2). Research papers presented at the
Assessment in Music Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
Also collaboratively presented at this conference: Daniel, R. and Parkes, K. A. (2013).
Assessment and Critical Feedback in the Master-Apprentice Relationship. (research paper)
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