[Asis-l] Missouri iSchool Announces Faculty Promotions, New Hires and Open Positions

[Erdelez, Sanda]

***The School of Information Science & Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri is pleased to announce faculty promotions:

Dr. Joi Moore, <https://education.missouri.edu/person/joi-l-moore>, was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Dr. Moore joined MU in 1998 and serves as SISLT Director and the Associate Division Director at the College of Education.  Her research areas are Electronic Performance Support Systems, Designing User-Centered Web applications (Human-Computer Interaction) and Interactive Learning Environments.

Dr. Sean Goggins<https://education.missouri.edu/person/sean-goggins/>, (https://education.missouri.edu/person/sean-goggins), was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Goggins joined SISLT in 2013 and has research expertise in Learning Analytics, Open Online Community Data Factories; Group Informatics and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory.

***This Fall SISLT also welcomed 2 new faculty and 1 new post-doctoral fellow:

Dr. Isa Jahnke, <https://education.missouri.edu/person/isa-jahnke>, Associate Professor and Director of Research for the MU Information Experience Lab (IE Lab). Dr. Jahnke earned her PhD (2005) from TU Dortmund University, Germany and M.Sc. Study of Social Sciences (1997) from Wuppertal University, Germany. She specializes in Design-Based Research.  Her research interests are topics surrounding designs for technology-supported teaching and learning and sociotechnical spaces.  Currently she is involved in iPad-didactics, tablet-mediated learning, and designing for learning in CrossActionSpaces, which is also the name of her new book published by Routledge in 2015.

Dr. Johannes Strobel, <https://education.missouri.edu/person/johannes-strobel>, Professor. After studying philosophy and information science in Germany, Dr. Strobel received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Dr. Strobel has been actively shaping the pre-college engineering education research landscape in the United States, exemplified through serving as the founding editor of the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research. His research and teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in pre-college education, policy of pre-college STEM education, engineering 'habits of mind' and worldviews, empathy and care in engineering and the use of cyber-infrastructure to provide access to and support learning.

Dr. Fatih Demir, <https://education.missouri.edu/person/fatih-demir>, post-doctoral fellow in the MU IE Lab. Dr. Demir earned a PhD in Communications Design from University of Baltimore in 2009. He served as a research assistant in the MIS lab, concentrating on usability and interaction design, communications and perception management and human computer interaction.  Fatih has also completed research on e-government projects for British, Australian, French and Turkish police organizations by using many research methods including eye tracking systems and published books and articles in the areas of Usability Evaluation, Research Methods and Interaction Design.

***SISLT currently also has an open rank search for two new faculty with expertise in LIS research areas. For a detailed description visit: <http://hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/academic/index.php> (keyword: SISLT).


Sanda Erdelez, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Library and Information Science Program
SISLT -- iSchool at University of Missouri
erdelezs at missouri.edu
573-882-5088

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