Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux and instructional technology doctoral students Marya Rahimi and Erin Anderson, were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education’s (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium.

Christen Neal-Porter and Taylor Carter, instructional design and technology graduates from Georgia State University’s Department of Learning Sciences, accepted full-time positions with The Home Depot.

Assistant Professor Ben Rydal Shapiro and Edwin Zhao, an instructional technology doctoral student in the Department of Learning Sciences, co-authored two articles for the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Department of Learning Sciences faculty and staff showed their Fall 2024 holiday spirit at Georgia State.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux was featured in an ACM video about one of her published articles.

Luke Ziegler (Ph.D. ’24), an instructional technology alum, accepted a clinical assistant faculty position at the University of West Georgia.

Michelle Tobar’s (B.S. ’19, M.S. ’23) experiences in the educational psychology master’s program prepared her for her work as a clinical research coordinator at Skyland Trail, a nonprofit mental health treatment organization in Atlanta.

Office of Adult Education (OAE) and Adult Literacy Research Center (ALRC) at Georgia State University received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to establish the Georgia Partnership for Adult Education Research (GPAER).

Associate Professor Jessica Scott has been voted president-elect for the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Project Behavioral and Early Education Scholars (BEES) at Georgia State University is offering fully funded master’s programs.

Joe Magliano, professor in the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Learning Sciences, was a guest on an episode of the Rising Parents podcast.

Special education master’s student Alexandra Sotelo learned more about special education in other countries during her study abroad program in Greece.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux gave the keynote address at the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Schools.

Bryan Cox, an instructional technology alumnus, accepted a new position as a research faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Lisa Helsel, an educational psychology alumna, is the 2023 recipient of the NCTE Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.

Associate Professor Min Kyu Kim received a three-year, $298,375 grant from the National Science Foundation to help improve undergraduate STEM education.

Christy Jarrard, a second-year doctoral student in the educational psychology Ph.D. program presented at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) 2023 Convention in Washington, D.C., Aug. 3-5.

Associate Professor Min Kyu Kim and doctoral student Jinho Kim were featured in the AI-ALOE Spotlight newsletter.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux received the International Computing Education Research Test of Time Award at the International Computing Education Research Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Jennifer Austin and Daniel Conine, faculty members in the Department of Learning Sciences, have been appointed to the board of associate editors for the journal Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Assistant Professor Jonte Myers will be awarded the 2023 Must-Read Article Award at the Council for Learning Disabilities’ (CLD) 45th Annual International Conference on Learning Disabilities.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux gave two talks at Vrije University in Amsterdam about her research and her work at Georgia State.

Professor David Houchins served as a guest editor for a special issue of Behavior Disorders on using mixed methods research in special education, his field of study.

Assistant Professor Ben Shapiro in Learning Sciences, co-authored a paper for the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing proceedings.

Ben Shapiro, assistant professor in Learning Sciences, published an article for the Journal of Education, Technology & Society.

Associate Professor Min Kyu Kim is serving as a senior program committee member for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences and a program committee member for the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

The Adult Learning Resource Center (ALRC) researchers, Daphne Greenberg and Iris Feinberg, collaborated with researchers from the Georgia Policy Labs.

Doctoral student Rebekah Pollock in the educational psychology Ph.D. program received a Georgia State University Grant Award, which will support her dissertation work.

Department of Learning Sciences Associate Professor Christopher Tullis has been newly elected as co-vice president of Public Policy on the Georgia Association for Behavior Analysis Board.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux will be the featured speaker at a National Science Foundation Career Award application session for the College of Education & Human Development faculty.

A team of Georgia State University researchers has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health.

Iris Feinberg, research assistant professor created “Teach Back” to help Georgia State University researchers promote the readability of consent forms in research.

Tabitha Stickel, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow working with the Adult Literacy Research Center, speaks about her work at a southwestern community college with the Diné (Navajo), the Hopi and the Ndee (Western Apache).

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux was featured in a Fierce Education article on teaching computational thinking skills to future college students.

Associate Professor Lauren Margulieux participated in a three-day working group meeting on computer science teacher preparation as part of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Doctoral student Amanda Dahl is the 2022 recipient of the International Literacy Association’s Steven A. Stahl Research Grant Award.

Meet Whitney Trapp, alumna of the Applied Behavior Analysis program and working at an autism center in Brookhaven, Ga.

Four faculty from the Georgia State University received 2022 seed grants to implement language and literacy intervention programs.

Congratulations to Ruth Ebenezer-Cook, the Department of Learning Science’s business manager, who earned her master’s recently.

Bryan Cox, a doctoral student in the instructional technology Ph.D. program, publishes his first-author paper in Policy Futures in Education.

Department of Learning Sciences Associate Professor Jonathan Cohen has been elected president-elect of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education.

Gereen Francis, M.S. ABA, has applied what she’s learned to forming her own consulting business to help families understand their child’s challenging behaviors.

Ashley Gibbs is a graduate of the M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis and recently accepted a clinical director position overseas.

Min Kyu Kim, assistant professor in Learning Sciences, co-authored an article for Frontiers in Education.

Assistant Professors Lauren Margulieux and Ben Shapiro, along with colleagues from The University of Auckland, Northwestern University and McGill University, have proposed a new teaching theory called “multiple conceptions theory.”

Ben Shapiro, Ph.D., was selected as one of the Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS) Best Reviewers of 2021.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it is investing $20 million in a collaborative effort by Georgia universities and other partners to leverage artificial intelligence to transform adult learning in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.

College of Education & Human Development Learning Sciences Assistant Professor Min Kyu Kim and College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Daniel Takabi received a three-year, $399,681 grant from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary project on artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy.

Jason Braasch and Daniel Conine, faculty members in the in the Department of Learning Sciences, are two of eight recipients of the College of Education & Human Development’s Faculty Awards for 2022.

Min Kyu Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor in Learning Sciences, published an article for Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.

The Department of Learning Sciences’ online master’s program in instructional design and technology was ranked No. 13 in the 2022 Best Online Rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Rebekah Pollock, a doctoral student in our department, has her residency study accepted for publication in the Journal of Black Psychology.

Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D., was the keynote speaker for the MTML Professional Development Learning Day for the LBS Field on Nov 12.

When you have learning differences, public schools can’t always provide everything that you need. This was the case for Presidential Scholar Aliyah Bradley-Davino.

Min Kyu Kim, Ph.D., published article feedback in a graduate-level online course” for Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.

Jennifer Darling-Aduana, assistant professor in the Department of Learning Sciences, will be a panelist on a Nov. 5 virtual webinar entitled, “What is Driving the Demand for Digital Learning? Is Digital Learning Effective?” hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance.

Assistant Professor Lauren Margulieux will serve as a panelist for a webinar entitled, “NSF Career Awards: Tips and Advice for Proposal Preparation.”

Learning Sciences seniors MaryKatherine Foxley and Annie Stott are completing their first placement in the adapted curriculum special education field.

Learning Sciences graduates Sarah Burris, Toni Hazlett, Kelsey Robinson, Genesis Diaz, and Diana Piccarreto-Garcia receive Special Education B.S.Ed. degree at the 2021 spring commencement ceremony.

Eric Sembrat is the 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation in Learning Technologies Award, which is given to a student whose dissertation demonstrates excellence and advances the state of knowledge in the field of instructional technology.

Kathryn McCarthy, assistant professor in Learning Sciences is a guest on a recent episode of the Emerging Issues in Educational Psychology podcast presented by APA Division 15.

Brendan Calandra and Lauren Margulieux have established a new project to increase computational literacy among K-12 students in rural and low-income communities.

Daphne Greenberg has created the first post-doctoral fellowship training program in the country designed to support new Ph.D. graduates interested in studying adult literacy.

Johari Harris-Ward, an alumna of the College of Education & Human Development (CEHD) in educational psychology, appears on a TV news program regarding the formation of Freedom School.

Katie McCarthy teaches college students to become more effective learners through funding from the Spencer Foundation.

Assistant Professors Natalie King and Lauren Margulieux have been chosen for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program.

Former Ph.D. researcher in Learning Sciences pens book on biology that anyone can use.

Lauren Margulieux received a $489,631 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Min Kyu Kim, Ph.D., published an article for the Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Min Kyu Kim, Ph.D. published and article for the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Min Kyu Kim published an article in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education.

Sara McDaniel, Ph.D. is a promising young scholar in emotional and behavioral disorders. Her focus on reducing youth violence, racism and discrimination receives considerable recognition. She is the recipient of the DR 2020 Distinguished Early Career Research Award.

Jacob English, Ph.D. (Educational Psychology) presented his dissertation findings to the NCAA Research Committee.

View our list of faculty highlights and spotlights. From new appointments to publications. We will continue to add to this list.