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New Great Lakes Shipwreck Game Takes Gold Medal in International Competition

New Great Lakes Shipwreck Game Takes Gold Medal in International Competition


Young students can learn critical thinking and historical inquiry skills as they role-play solving undersea mysteries in this immersive, beautifully illustrated point-and-click video game created by WCER’s Field Day Lab and state partners.


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WCER Shines in School of Education’s Faculty and Staff Distinguished Achievement Awards

WCER Shines in School of Education’s Faculty and Staff Distinguished Achievement Awards


Honorees include three with WCER ties: Danielle Maillette, Sadhana Puntambekar and Maria Widmer. Danielle is Events and Intranet Manager, Maria is instructional designer for Discussion Project Virtual and Sadhana is a pioneering reseacher.


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CRECE Study Tracks Covid-19 Impacts on Dane County 4K Classes

CRECE Study Tracks Covid-19 Impacts on Dane County 4K Classes


How to sustain positive outcomes seen during the pandemic—such as increased connection between teachers and parents through new communication technologies and more planning time for teachers—is an important question going forward.


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New Online Learning Game Lets Players See Impact of Land Use Changes in Models of Real Locations

New Online Learning Game Lets Players See Impact of Land Use Changes in Models of Real Locations


​Epistemic Analytics partnered with ecology and data-mapping experts on and off campus to create iPlan, a simulator that makes STEM learning fun. Players can model how different zoning choices would affect the environment, jobs, housing and other factors anywhere in the contiguous U.S.


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WEC Partners with Capital High on Education, Equity

WEC Partners with Capital High on Education, Equity


​Benefits of the Adopt-a-School partnership go both ways — a new course in culturally responsive evaluation is being offered to students, while WEC is able to invest in the values it holds dear.


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WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panel discussions and other events throughout the academic year.

You can view video recordings of these lecture series on our website:

  • Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture Series
    This series enhances awareness of minority scholars and promotes their work in education research.

  • Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series
    This interdisciplinary speaker series features leading scholars from around the world who visit campus to share and discuss their work.

  • Other Lecture Videos

Or, you can browse all our videos here!

NEWS

CRECE Seeks Applications for Undergraduate, Master’s Research Fellows Programs

WCER Communications, Aug 2

Second NSF Grant Expands WCER Study of College/Career Success of Student Military

WCER Communications, Jul 14

Grace Li Joins WIDA as Chief Assessment Officer

WIDA Communications, Jul 14

A Closer Look: WEC Projects Span Many Fields and Purposes

WCER Communications, Jul 5

A Closer Look: Center for Ethics & Education Offers Podcasts, Free Study Guides, Graduate Fellowships

WCER Communications, Jul 5

Summer Research Workshop for Early-Career Scholars Gets Underway

WCER Communications, Jul 5

PUBLICATIONS

CoFrame: A System for Training Novice Cobot Programmers, Andrew Schoen, Nathan White, Curt Henrichs, Amanda Siebert-Evenstone, David W. Shaffer, Bilge Mutlu, 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2022

Zero Re-centered Projection: An Alternative Proposal for Modeling Empty Networks in ENA, Mariah Knowles, Clara Porter, Zhiqiang Cai, Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, November 2021

Epistemic Network Analysis Visualization, Yuanru Tan, Cesar Hinojosa, Cody Marquart, Andrew R. Ruis, David Williamson Shaffer, Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, November 2021

“Evolution of Accreditation Feedback for Simulation Centers Over 8 Years Using Epistemic Network Analysis,” Vitaliy Popov, Andrew R. Ruis, James M. Cooke, Simulation in Healthcare, January 2022

“Team Cognition in Handoffs: Relating System Factors, Team Cognition Functions and Outcomes in Two Handoff Processes,” Abigail R. Wooldridge, Pascale Carayon, Peter Hoonakker, Bat-Zion Hose, David W. Shaffer, Tom Brazelton, Ben Eithun, Deborah Rusy, Joshua Ross, Jonathan Kohler, Michelle M. Kelly, Scott Springman, Ayse P. Gurses, Human Factors, June 2022

NEW GRANTS

Timothy Tansey has received a grant of $529,932 from the Department of Education, in a subcontract from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, for “Wisconsin Career Advancement Initiative” through Sept. 30, 2026. (072022)

Ross Benbow has been awarded $1,443,669 from the National Science Foundation for “Exploring Student Service Member/Veteran STEM Career Persistence Longitudinally and in Military-Centric Contexts: A Mixed Methods Study of Social Support Networks” through June 30, 2026.


Martina Rau has received a grant of $849,761 from the National Science Foundation for “Digitally Inoculating Viewers Against Visual Misinformation With a Perceptual Training,” through Aug. 31, 2025. (071222)

FUNDERS
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
New York City Department of Education Spencer Foundation Westat National Science Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation William T. Grant Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Madison Metropolitan School District Chicago Public Schools Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
Lumina Foundation for Education National Institutes of Health Milwaukee Public Schools Hillsborough County Public Schools
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County The Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation Tulsa Public Schools
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