Kim and Hannafin receive outstanding research paper award
So Mi Kim, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Missouri, and Michael Hannafin, professor emeritus in the department of educational psychology, were awarded the Outstanding Journal Article Award from the Association for Educational Communication & Technology.
Advised and co-written by Hannafin, Kim’s paper examines how small groups of college students seek and evaluate online resources to address socio-scientific issues and develop group argumentation.
I wanted to caution against vicious cycles," said Kim, who received her doctoral degree from the College of Education in 2014. “These are often derived from students’ low epistemic engagement; efficiency-oriented computing systems; misalignment among pedagogical components in real-world classroom; and finally research programs which fail to holistically trace and unearth human and environmental factors that negatively mediate innovative educational programs.