Q & A with Kathrin Maki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies What basic questions does your research seek to answer? My work focuses on the identification of learning needs and development of academic skills for children with learning difficulties and disabilities. Specifically, my work centers […]
Q & A with Nigel Newbutt, Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning
The UF Office of Research has announced the 2022 Research Opportunity Seed Fund (ROSF) competition. The program focuses on new projects and/or new collaborative partnerships. Visit https://research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022-ROSF-Call-for-Proposal.pdf to review the 2022 guidelines and review criteria. To participate in the college’s internal review and selection of proposals to move forward, submit your two-page concept paper (in a single-file […]
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM panel) formed to discuss the future of education research at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The panel discussions are nearing completion and recommendations are forthcoming. IES Director Mark Schneider commented in his blog about important issues the panel has reviewed. He is also interested in […]
The Office of Educational Research (OER) completed its annual report outlining data on externally funded projects and grant activities in the College of Education (COE). Faculty productivity and efforts toward securing external funding remain high and have surpassed fiscal year (FY) 2019 in (a) dollar amount of proposal submissions, (b) number of proposal submissions, (c) […]
Best wishes to Anthony Botelho for his proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Catherine Cavanaugh for her subcontract DHHS Flow Through proposal to the Florida Office of Early Learning; Frank Fernandez for his two proposals, one for a subcontract NSF Flow Through with Texas Tech University and one to the American College Personnel Association; Holly Lane, Kristi Cheyney-Collante, […]
Q & A with Frank Fernandez, Ph. D., Assistant Professor in the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education What basic questions does your research seek to answer? What roles does higher education fulfill in society? How does higher education work as a social institution? In what ways do diverse groups have different experiences […]
Q & A with Rob Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning What basic questions does your research seek to answer? My research broadly attempts to answer, “What is happening in digital ecologies?” By digital ecologies, I mean any learning environment that is integrating technology. This would include a face-to-face classroom that […]
This Institute of Education Research (IES) blog is part of a guest series by the Cost Analysis in Practice (CAP) project team and provides guidance for developing a timeline that aligns the steps for planning a cost analysis with the data collection process for each year of an evaluation study. The Cost Analysis in Practice […]
In this Institute of Education Research (IES) guest blog, IES-funded researchers discuss how they were able to quickly change to a remote data collection plan when COVID-19 disrupted their initial research plan.
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) received $100 million through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to respond to the overwhelming learning challenges posed by COVID-19. In a recent blog, IES Director Mark Schneider provides an update on how IES is using those funds to invest in research grants, gather data through the School Pulse, and […]
In the coming weeks, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will announce its plans to partner with the National Science Foundation (NSF) on two Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes. Recently, NSF has announced more of these institutes. IES will be announcing a special education and an accelerated learning institute. These two AI institutes will be jointly funded […]
For the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown, Institute of Education (IES) Director Mark Schneider attended a mostly in-person conference—the ASU+GSV Summit, held in San Diego. In a recent blog, he describes how the conference highlighted some of the challenges we can expect as we begin to recover from the pandemic. He expounds on these […]
The UF Informatics Institute is hosting a virtual seminar series presented by the AI Research Catalyst Fund 2020 Awardees. The seminars began on September 1. Registration is required for each seminar. Please visit https://informatics.research.ufl.edu/ufiievents/ to register. Wednesdays, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm via Zoom Upcoming seminars in September include the following: Sept. 15, 2021: Parker Kotlarz [PI Juan Claudio Nino], “AI-Enabled […]
UFIT has announced that Jiang Bian will be the keynote speaker at the Fall 2021 HiPerGator Symposium. Dr. Bian, associate professor and director of Cancer Informatics and UF’s e-Health core, will speak about the collaboration with NVIDIA researchers to create GatorTron™. This is a virtual event via Zoom. Calls for presenters and general event registration […]
