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May 2021: Prof. Koretsky explores conceptual knowledge in the on the In the Fume Hood podcast.
December 2020: Our paper “Concept Warehouse Remote: Making Student Thinking Visible,” has been published in the special issue of Advances in Engineering Education on COVID-19.
November 2020: Our paper Students’ Approaches to Studying through a Situative Lens has been published in Studies in Engineering Education.
August 2020: Our paper from the ESTEME Project, Socially enabled actors: the emerging authorship of fixed-term instructional faculty to enact and sustain organizational change, has been published in Higher Education Research & Development.https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1811647
August 2020: Our paper on instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, Re-flipping in the Remote Classroom: The Surprising Uptake of Video-Recorded Worked Examples, has been published in the Journal of Chemical Education.
April 2020: Prof. Koretsky is highlighted in a story about Collaborative Learning during COVID-19.
December 2019: Congrats to Krtisa Chindanon for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
November 2019: Our article "An interactive virtual laboratory addressing student difficulty in differentiating between chemical reaction kinetics and equilibrium" has been published in Computer Applications in Engineering Education.
September 2019: Prof Koretsky was awarded the inaugural Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from the OSU College of Engineering.
June 2019: The article Prof Koretsky wrote with Ale Magana (Purdue), "Using technology to enhance learning and engagement in engineering," has been published in Advances in Engineering Education.
May 2019: Our paper, “Using social network analysis to develop relational expertise for an instructional change initiative” has been published in the International Journal of STEM Education. This work was part of our NSF Wider grant, ESTEME@OSU, and looks at ways to support faculty to implement evidence-based instructional practices.
April 2019: Prof. Koretsky has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education
April 2019: Our article "Productive Disciplinary Engagement in High- and Low-Outcome Student Groups: Observations From Three Collaborative Science Learning Contexts" has been published in Research in Science Education
January 2019: A comparative review of two books on leadership by Prof. Koretsky has been published in Chemical Engineering Education.
September 2018: Prof Koretsky has received the Research Collaboration Award from the College of Engineering at Oregon State University
July 2018: Prof Koretsky has received the AIChE Education Division Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Research, 2018 “for his wide-spanning research on student learning, concept-based instruction and integrative technological tools in engineering, especially through the Concept Warehouse and virtual environments.”
June 2018: Congratulations to Ying Cao who has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Drury University!
June 2018:Congratulations to Chris Hinkle for receiving the 2018 Honors College Outstanding Thesis Award.
May 2018: Our article "Toward Professional Practice: Student Learning Opportunities through Participation in Engineering Clubs" has been published in the European Journal of Engineering Education
April 2018: Our article "The role of pedagogical tools in active learning: a case for sense-making" has been published in the International Journal of STEM Education.
March 2018: Congratulations to Chris Hinkle for defending his Honors Thesis and International Degree.
March 2018: Congratulations to Kritsa Chindanon for passing his PhD preliminary exam.
March 2018: The RED team has published the paper, "Towards a Stronger Covalent Bond: Pedagogical Change for Inclusivity and Equity," in Chemical Engineering Education.
January 2018: Our article "Affordances of Virtual and Physical Laboratory Projects for Instructional Design: Impacts on Student Engagement" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Education.
January 2018: Welcome to Ed Michor as a new post-doctoral scholar in the group. Ed comes with a PhD in ChE from University of Washington by way of Intel.
October 2017: Congrats to Erick Nefcy for accepting a position at Intel starting December 2017!
October 2017: Our paper "Gender and Participation in an Engineering Problem-Based Learning Environment" is available in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning.
September 2017: Prof. Koretsky presented the 52nd ConocoPhillips Lecture on Chemical Engineering and the Plenary Talk at the 2017 ASEE Midwest Section Meeting. A paper based on the presentation is available here.
July 2017: We will be presenting two sets of workshops at the ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty at North Carolina State University July 29 - Aug. 3:
July 2017: Congrats to Christina Smith for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
March 2017: Congrats to Christina Smith for accepting a position at Brown University's Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning starting August 2017!
January 2017: Prof. Koretsky presented the inaugural AIChE Education Division Webinar. A copy of the talk is available here. Links to the videos in the presentation are available: video1, video2, video3.
November 2016: Prof. Koretsky delivered three invited talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting. You can see abstracts here, here, and here.
October 2016: Prof. Koretsky joined a team of presenters from the NSF RED program cohorts to present a webinar What is Revolutionary? as part of the webinar series, Developing a Competitive RED Proposal.
October 2016: Prof. Koretsky was an invited panelist at the 2016 Frontiers in Education Conference session, "Changing Your Department: Examples from Revolutionizing Engineering Departments."
September 2016: Our paper Surprises in the Muddy Waters of High-Enrollment Courses is available in the Journal of Chemical Education.
September 2016: Congrats to Erick Nefcy for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
August 2016: Our paper Written justifications to multiple-choice concept questions during active learning in class is available in the International Journal of Science Education.
August 2016: Our paper Propagation from the start: the spread of a concept-based instructional tool is available in Educational Technology Research and Development.
May 2016: Congrats to Jessie Keeler for successfully defending her MS thesis!
May 2016: Prof. Koretsky has received the 2016 CACHE Award, "for significant contributions in the development of computer aids for chemical engineering education."
March 2016: Our paper, Feedback on Professional Skills as Enculturation into Communities of Practice, has received the the 2016 William Elgin Wickenden Award, which recognizes the authors of the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2015.
February 2016: Together with collaborators from the University of Washington, Bucknell University, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Wisconsin, the Group has submitted a slew of draft papers to the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Say hi to us in New Orleans!
January 2016: The ESTEME@OSU Project is the plenary showcase at the OSU College of Science Teaching and Advising Awards Banquet on January 12.
January 2016: We would like to welcome Ying Cao to the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Ying comes from Tufts University.
December 2015: We would like to welcome Giovanna Scalone, who joined the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar in November form the University of Washington.
December 2015: We have received a Learning Innovation Grant from OSU.
December 2015: Many members of our group have had abstracts accepted to the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. We hope to see you there!
If you are motivated and have an interest in researching and improving STEM education, please contact our team about current research opportunities.
