A UW–Madison School of Education faculty member recently lent his expertise on the role of technology in education to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on how Wisconsin college students and professors are responding to the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …
The Washington Post highlighted the expertise of UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, in a story that is headlined, “Moving lessons on forgiveness out of religious spaces and into schools.” Enright is considered to be one of the founders of the scientific study of forgiveness and last …
Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison. In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the Department of Educational …
Twelve UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Those honored have been selected for their distinguished teaching and were nominated by individual faculty members, departments, and student organizations. Among this year’s honorees are two faculty …
Can forgiveness ever be detrimental to your well-being? A recent story in Men’s Health magazine that takes on the concept of “toxic forgiveness” consulted with UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, an expert in forgiveness science and professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “Toxic forgiveness” refers to forgiving someone when you still feel hurt …
UW–Madison students living in University Housing each year have the ability to recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor and recognize instructors who challenge students, make learning fun, and/or are inspiring. This fall’s list of Honored Instructors includes nine outstanding educators …
As we welcome 2023, we wanted to look back and share photos that highlight some of the special moments that took place across our School in 2022. What an amazing year it was! Below are some special moments to remember from across the School of Education, winnowed from the many hundreds of photos our photographers …
David Williamson Shaffer has been appointed the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the UW–Madison School of Education. The honor acknowledges Shaffer’s decades of exemplary teaching, mentorship, and research, which includes establishing the field of quantitative ethnography. Quantitative ethnography (QE) unifies statistical and qualitative research methods to help researchers use the power of “big …
UW–Madison’s Yuanru Tan received the Best Student Paper Award at this year’s International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 15-19. Tan is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s Learning Sciences program. Her paper, “Ordered Network Analysis,” introduces ONA as a solution to model and visualize collaborative problem …
Ask Percival Matthews about his vision for what equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work across the UW–Madison School of Education should look like, and he pauses for a moment. He has his own ideas. Plenty of them. But he also acknowledges that EDI work can be hard — and stresses how one person can’t do …