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🎉 Congratulations to Our 2024 ECT Portfolio Winners! 🎉
🏆 Meet Our Winners and Their Portfolios 🏆

Welcome incoming 2024 LTXD, G4l and PhD students!!

Check out our orientation resources, course and registration info, new student webinar and how to connect with peers and our community!

ECT News & Upcoming Events

Jeff Brenneman

ECT Brownbag: Forging a Path for Researching Narrative Design and Emotional Design in Game-Based Learning

April 18, 2024, 12:00 pm -1:00 pm EST

370 Jay St, 522

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Jeff is a PhD candidate in the ECT doctoral program at Steinhardt, and a senior instructional designer for the Digital Learning team at Tandon. He earned his BA in Mathematics from Michigan State University, his MEd in Curriculum & Instruction from American College of Education, and his MS in Games For Learning at NYU. He currently teaches the Narrative, Digital Media, and Learning course for the LTXD/G4L masters programs. Jeff's research interests include narrative design and emotional design in games for learning. Prior to his instructional design work, Jeff taught mathematics for several years at a project-based learning high school in Illinois. Outside of school and work, Jeff enjoys running, reading books, taking his dog for long walks, and spending an embarrassing number of hours playing Final Fantasy XIV.

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Xiaomeng Huang

ECT Brownbag: Charting the Development of Collaboration Skills through Analytics-Supported Feedback

April 25, 2024, 12:00 pm -1:00 pm EST

370 Jay St, 522

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Xiaomeng Huang is a PhD candidate in Educational Communication and Technology. She is passionate about enhancing the development of 21st-century skills through multimodal learning analytics. Her current research centers on collaborative learning analytics, within which she seeks to use insights from fine-grained learning traces to create automated and actionable feedback for students to develop their collaboration skills. Xiaomeng holds a Master of Education in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard University.

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