St. John’s University School of Education Hosts International Conference on e-learning and Innovative Pedagogies

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, St. John’s University will chair the Eleventh International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, through Common Ground Research Networks in conjunction with the University of Illinois Research Park on March 2–3, 2018.  The event will be held at St. John’s Manhattan campus at 101 Astor Place in New York’s East Village. 

The special focus of this annual conference will be Digital Pedagogies for Social Justice.  Four themes for the conference are: Pedagogies, Institutions, Technologies, and Social Transformations.  Plenary sessions will be delivered by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field: Fran Blumberg, Professor, Counseling Psychology, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University; Mary Kalantzis, Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bill Cope, Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tom Liam Lynch, Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Pace University; Karen Miner-Romanoff, Assistant Dean, Academic Quality, NYU School of Professional Studies.

The conference takes inspiration from the movement from ubiquitous computing to ubiquitous learning with a basis on seven moves, inspired by the editors’ introductory chapter to Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2009.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Steven M. Neier, Assistant Dean at 718-990-6336 or by e-mail to [email protected].

For media inquiries, please contact the Office of Media Relations by calling (718) 990-1621 or by e-mail to [email protected]. 

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